Senior Credit Strategy Analyst - Affiliates and Lead Gen UW

Best Egg, now part of Barclays, is a market-leading, tech-enabled financial platform helping people build financial confidence through innovative lending solutions and financial health tools. As a Barclays company, we combine the agility and customer focus of a fintech with the global reach, stability, and purpose of a leading financial institution—working together to create a better financial future for our customers and communities.

At Best Egg, you’ll find a culture grounded in our core values—putting people first, creating clarity, delivering with excellence —enhanced by Barclays’ commitment to integrity, inclusion, and long-term impact. Together, we empower our colleagues to challenge, innovate, and take ownership while making a meaningful difference in people’s financial lives.

With the strength of Barclays behind us, we offer expanded opportunities for growth, development, and career mobility across a global organization—while continuing to build the products and experiences that make Best Egg unique.

We’re looking for collaborative, curious problem-solvers who are excited to make an impact and grow with us.

We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.

Duties & Responsibilities

• This individual will be responsible for monitoring, refining and developing Credit strategies (including underwriting and loan amount) for personal loans
• Create test/control champion/challenger tests and monitoring to inform future strategies
• Provide scenario analysis/create financial impact sizing/develop new strategy test case
• Perform ad-hoc analytics, create reporting and presentations
• Work across functional areas to drive overall growth, product enhancements, and improve web funnel conversion rates across all channels.
• Partner with Decision Science to define and develop Credit models and tools
• Maintain overall risk and return targets for investors particularly in a changing economic environment

Requirements-Development

• 5+ years experience in a similar analytical role
• Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics, Mathematics, Operational Research, Engineering, other quantitative major required;  Master’s degree a plus
• Experience in financial industry, credit risk required; online lending, near-prime, sub-prime is a plus
• Must be proficient in Python or similar, SQL, and MS Excel
• Must be proficient in interpreting data using analytics, research methodologies, and statistical techniques
• Previous experience with Business Intelligence reporting (e.g. Tableau, PowerBI, etc) is desirable
• Excellent English written/verbal communication skills, critical thinking and interpersonal skills
• Highly independent and self-motivated to forming opinions that are supported by data.
• Strong knowledge of modeling tools and techniques and use in strategy
• Ability to understand competitive pressure, economic trends and their business impacts.
• High Energy with ability to work in a fast-paced environment

Requirements-Leadership

• Comfortable interacting and engaging with colleagues from all levels of management across all business units and third-party vendors
• Demonstrated technical leadership skills including self-direction, coaching and mentoring
• Highly motivated, well organized, capable of developing and executing business analysis and able to communicate status and results effectively

Requirements-Culture

• Ability to succeed within a cross-functional team emphasizing Collective Ownership in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to work effectively both independently and as a team member
• Be confident and willing to challenge status quo, but also willing to concede and execute other’s ideas when necessary
• Capable of teaching and learning from others to promote continuity of knowledge and personal development
• Cultivate good working relationships with other business units, particularly Marketing, Operations, and Finance