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Monzo

Credit Risk Director, Business Borrowing

Job Summary

This role involves leading the credit strategy for Monzo's business lending products, focusing on designing and improving credit and pricing strategies. The candidate will monitor and iterate existing strategies, support new product development, and oversee credit models to forecast cash flows and assess risk. Strong domain expertise in small business lending, regulatory understanding, analytical skills, and technical coding abilities are essential. The position offers flexible remote working options, professional development budgets, and support for relocation and visa sponsorship.

Required Skills

Team Leadership
SQL
Python
Coding
Data Analysis
Analytics
Project Management
Regulatory Knowledge
Stakeholder Management
Financial Modeling
Looker
Credit Strategy
Credit Underwriting
Lending Products
Credit Models

Benefits

Learning Budget
Visa Sponsorship
Inclusive Environment
Flexible Working
Relocation Assistance
Remote Work Support

Job Description

🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.

We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.

After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as personal and business bank accounts, we offer joint accounts, accounts for 16-17 year olds, a free kids account and credit cards in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also save, invest and combine their pensions with us.

With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!

We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️

Hear from our UK team about what it's like working at Monzo


📍London or Remote (UK) | 💰 £145,000 - £175,000 + Options + Benefits | Data Team, Borrowing

Our team;

Our Borrowing (lending) team is growing as we look to develop our suite of borrowing products for business banking customers; sole traders and limited companies. We’re looking for a Director to lead the credit strategy for Business Borrowing. You will lead the team responsible for defining the credit and pricing as we look to evolve our existing propositions and develop new products. We aim to create a genuine feel-good factor when it comes to business credit, and are looking for driven, analytical and creative individuals to help us achieve this goal.

Our credit teams are part of our Data Discipline which drives a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. We’re great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. All our data lives in one place and is super easy to use. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives analysts the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

Join a team where your ideas can rapidly transform into reality, leveraging our cutting-edge technology and agile ways of working. Our credit analysts and managers are fully embedded into a product squad alongside Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, Marketers, Customer Researchers, Data Scientists etc. This enables us to solve customer problems in a fast paced and innovative way.


Your day-to-day:

  • Leading the team designing credit and pricing strategies for our business lending products
  • Monitoring the performance of our existing strategies, and iterating to improve them
  • Supporting the design and roll-out of new products and customer journeys
  • Leading initiatives to improve our credit underwriting, boost growth and/or manage portfolio risk
  • Overseeing the development and monitoring our credit models to forecast cash flows and assess net present value of new lending cohorts
  • Providing guidance and challenge on credit proposals which will be adopted as Monzo underwriting policy
  • Partner closely with key stakeholders including Capital, Impairments and Forecasting, Financial Health (Collections and Recoveries), Finance, Second Line Credit Oversight
  • Be a member of the Borrowing Leadership Team which drives Monzo's overall borrowing strategy

You should apply if:

  • You have strong domain expertise in providing lending products to small businesses
  • You have a deep understanding of how business lending works, including regulation and industry best practice
  • You have a solid understanding of lending economics and have experience developing and deploying underwriting strategies and credit models
  • You have strong analytical and data capabilities, backed up by technical coding skills. SQL is a must-have, Python and Looker experience is a plus
  • You are a strong communicator, able to cut through complex problems and articulate decision points
  • You have a track record in project management and leading high performing teams
  • You work well collaborating in a team with diverse skill-sets and personality types
  • Are comfortable working in a fast-moving and changing company

What’s in it for you:

✈️ We’ll help you relocate to the UK.

✅ We can sponsor your visa.

📍This role can be based in our London office, but we're open to distributed working within the UK (with ad hoc meetings in London).

⏰We offer flexible working hours and trust you to work enough hours to do your job well, and at times that suit you and your team.

📚£1,000 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences.

🏡We will set you up to work from home; all employees are given Macbooks and for fully remote workers we will provide extra support for your work-from-home setup.

The application journey has 3 key steps
  • Recruiter call
  • Initial Interview with the Hiring Manager
  • Final Loop
This process should take around 2-3 weeks - your schedule is really important to us, so we promise to be as flexible as possible!

We have some guidelines on using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to ace an application and interview at Monzo. You can read them here.You’ll hear from us throughout the application process, but if you’ve got any questions, please reach out to [email protected]. You can also use this email address to let us know if there’s anything we can do to make the process easier for you because of disability, neurodiversity or anything else.

#LI-AE1 #LI-REMOTE


Equal opportunities for everyone

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2024 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2024 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

Interested in this job?

Application deadline: Open until filled

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Date PostedAugust 4th, 2025
Job TypeFull Time
LocationCardiff, London or Remote (UK)
SalaryCompetitive rates
Exciting remote opportunity (requires residency in United Kingdom) for a Credit Risk Director, Business Borrowing at Monzo. Offering competitive salary (full time). Explore more remote jobs on FlexHired!

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