Job Purpose
The Senior Credit Analyst is responsible for leading complex credit analysis and underwriting activities across the credit investment lifecycle, supporting high-quality decision-making and risk management.
Operating with a high level of autonomy, the role drives detailed credit assessments, supports deal structuring, and contributes to the continuous improvement of credit processes and data-driven underwriting approaches. The role acts as a senior individual contributor, providing guidance to analysts and ensuring consistency and quality of outputs across the credit function.
Working closely with the Senior Credit Analyst Team Lead, data, and product teams, the role ensures that credit insights are robust, comparable, and aligned with the venture’s risk framework and strategic objectives.
Requirements
Key Responsibilities
Deal Structuring Support
- Collaborate with the deal structuring team to analyse borrower data and support the design of lending structures, including loan terms, collateral, and cash flow considerations.
- Provide analytical input into negotiations and structuring decisions, ensuring alignment with risk parameters.
Portfolio Monitoring & Risk Management
- Conduct ongoing monitoring of borrower performance post-disbursement to maintain an accurate view of credit risk and loan quality.
- Identify early warning signals and emerging risks, recommending appropriate actions where needed.
- Support the development of portfolio-level insights through aggregated analysis and trend identification.
Data, Systems & Process Improvement
- Work with data and product teams to define key credit data points and improve data-driven underwriting processes.
- Contribute to the development and refinement of internal tools, models, and systems supporting credit screening and monitoring.
- Support the standardisation of analytical outputs to ensure consistency and comparability across deals.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders across credit, product, data, and operations to ensure alignment of credit processes and outputs.
- Present credit analysis and insights clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Support junior analysts through informal guidance and review of analytical outputs where required.
The above list of responsibilities is not an exhaustive list of duties and you will be expected to perform different tasks as necessitated by your changing role within the organisation.
Key Competencies
- Clear and structured communication
- Collaboration across cross-functional teams
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
- Adaptability in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Stakeholder management, strategic thinking, decision making, project/priority management, innovation.
- Applying domain knowledge, data literacy, problem-solving in technical contexts.
- Strong understanding of credit risk and underwriting frameworks.
- Stakeholder management and ability to translate analysis into business decisions.
- Prioritisation and management of multiple deals and workflows.
- Critical thinking and analytical judgement.
- Advanced credit analysis and underwriting.
- Financial modelling and data interpretation.
- Risk assessment and counterparty analysis.
- Ability to structure and standardise analytical outputs.
- Experience working with large and complex credit datasets.
Specialist Skills
- Experience analysing high-volume loan portfolios and loan tapes.
- Familiarity with emerging market credit environments.
- Exposure to private credit, structured finance, or digital lending models.
- Understanding of blockchain / DeFi lending ecosystems.
Education / Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Management, Economics, or related field.
- Master’s degree (MBA or equivalent) preferred.
- Relevant certifications such as CFA, ACA, or similar are desirable.
- Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
- Typically 5+ years of experience in credit analysis, underwriting, or risk evaluation.
- Strong experience in financial analysis, credit risk assessment, and deal evaluation.
- Experience working with credit data, financial statements, and borrower analysis.
- Experience in emerging markets, private credit, banking, or credit brokerage environments.
- Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams including data and product.
- Demonstrated ability to work autonomously on complex credit analysis tasks.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present insights to non-credit stakeholders.
- Familiarity with DeFi protocols or digital lending environments is beneficial.
