Senior Credit Risk Analyst -Verifications

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.

About the Role

We're hiring a Senior Credit Risk Analyst to lead verification strategy for our personal loan product . You'll design and optimize how we use vendor data, credit bureau data, and internal signals to validate income, evaluate credit risk and improve underwriting decisions.

his role is highly leveraged-you'll directly influence funding volume and early credit performance by determining when and how to step up verification across the application funnel.

What You'll Do

• Build and scale income verification strategies for personal loans
• Leverage credit bureau + vendor data (payroll, cashflow, alternative data)
• to detect income inconsistencies and risk signals
• Define verification playbooks, decision rules, and escalation criteria for manual review
• Quantify and optimize trade-offs across:
• Approval & conversion rates
• Funding / booked loans
• Early delinquency & credit losses

• Design and run A/B tests and champion/challenger strategies

• Monitor performance using funnel metrics, cohort/vintage analysis, and risk segmentation
• Partner with Product, Data Science, Fraud, and Credit Underwriting

Turn analysis into clear, high-impact recommendations

What You Bring

• 5+ years in credit risk, underwriting strategy, or verification analytics
• Hands-on experience with:
• Personal loans or unsecured consumer lending
• Credit bureau data
• Income / bank / payroll data vendors
• Proven ability to drive data-backed strategy decisions and trade-off optimization
• Experience designing or influencing verification or underwriting policies
• Strong SQL; Python/R a plus
• Experience with Experimentation and Swapset analysis

Nice to Have

• Deep experience with income verification vendors and workflows
• Familiarity with credit risk, underwriting strategy and first-party fraud
• Experience in fintech or high-growth lending environments

Impact

• Drive better funding quality and early credit performance
• Optimize verification strategy to maximize conversion and funding efficiency
• Reduce operating cost

$130,000 - $150,000 a year

Employee Benefits

Best Egg offers many additional benefits for our employees, including (but not limited to):

• Pre-tax and post-tax retirement savings plans with a competitive company matching

program

• Generous paid time-off plans including vacation, personal/sick time, paid short--

term and long-term disability leaves, paid parental leave, and paid company

holidays

• Multiple health care plans to choose from, including dental and vision options

• Flexible Spending Plans for Health Care, Dependent Care, and Health

Reimbursement Accounts

• Company-paid benefits such as life insurance, wellness platforms, employee

assistance programs, and Health Advocate programs

• Other great discounted benefits include identity theft protection, pet insurance,

fitness center reimbursements, and many more!

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