Credit Risk Analyst

Credit and Fraud Risk (CFR) is a global function, responsible for making the right credit and fraud risk decisions that uphold operational excellence, drive growth, and accelerate innovation across American Express. CFR combines technology and infrastructure with new computing techniques to make better risk decisions and provide real-time customer communications and fraud servicing.

The mission of Credit & Fraud Risk (CFR) is to make the right credit and fraud risk decisions - that uphold operational excellence, drive profitable growth, and accelerate innovation. We are a vigorous and powerful resource for analytics.

The role of a Credit Risk Analyst will be essential to the business and all customer decisions that we make, both big and small!

As a key member of the Credit Risk Management team, you will be empowered to identify, develop, and implement capabilities to enhance customer risk assessments.

By leveraging our organization’s rich data, and collaborating with other departments such as Compliance, Legal, and Data Privacy, you will be able to derive analytical insights that shape our business strategy.

This will require a good understanding of the drivers of credit performance indicators and the implications on trends/forecasts, monitoring the true experience of customers in the market, diagnosing problems, and seeing opportunities for improvement, and then working with partners and stakeholders to implement.

Our CFR colleagues are based in different geographies across the world, which provides a great opportunity to learn and deploy standard processes from other regions. You will implement risk-driven strategies to profitably grow billed business, reduce unnecessary point-of-sale disruptions, and improve the customer experience in close collaboration with our Center-of-Excellence teams that develop state-of-the-art decision science tools and risk management capabilities. Given the strong business focus on digital servicing, you will be working at the forefront of digital innovation to realize new strategies that drive customer acquisition and engagement.

This is both an exciting and rewarding role that offers a unique opportunity to gain experience across the credit risk lifecycle and to interact with a wide range of business partners across all levels within the organization.

• Advanced degree in statistics, economics, mathematics, or equivalent experience in a similar field of study.
• Fluent proficiency in Spanish and English.
• Experience in developing strategic insights demonstrating data analytics.
• Experience in SQL and Python.
• Understanding of / experience in credit risk management principles.
• Experience in unsecured consumer lending or in the payments industry.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously
• Demonstrated interpersonal skills and ability to work effectively in a matrix environment

Employment eligibility to work with American Express in Spain is required as the company will not pursue visa sponsorship for these positions.