Senior Credit Risk Analyst

Senior Credit Risk Analyst (Credit Information & Bureau Reporting) - Full time

The Credit Risk team is an integral part of YBS's Risk Centre of Excellence. We pride ourselves on working collaboratively with our colleagues in teams across the business, including Trading, New Product Development, Finance and Collections & Recoveries to ensure we're identifying, mitigating and managing conduct and credit risks. This allows us to provide a fantastic experience for our customers and provides sustainable growth and performance for our members. Above all else, the Credit Risk function helps YBS to deliver real help with real lives in a safe and responsible way.

About the Role

As a Senior Credit Risk Analyst you'll be a key member of our Portfolio & Collections team, leveraging your expertise to strengthen the Society's approach to credit information reporting, data quality, and customer outcomes. This role is central to ensuring that the information we share with Credit Reference Agencies (CRAs) is accurate, consistent and governed to high standards, supporting fair outcomes and regulatory compliance.

You will work across Credit Risk, Collections, Operations, Data, IT and Compliance, helping the Society deliver its objectives through high quality analysis, improved data governance, and uplifted reporting standards. You'll also have the opportunity to shape our response to important industry and regulatory changes, including the work of the Credit Information Governance Body (CIGB) and the FCA's CP26/7 proposals.

Some of the areas you could be responsible for:

• Develop our internal standards for credit information reporting, defining how customer, account and arrears data must be submitted to the CRAs and ensuring this reflects best practice and emerging regulatory requirements.
• Analyse and monitor the quality of our credit information submissions, using data from internal systems and CRA outputs to identify issues, understand root causes, and drive improvements that ensure good outcomes for customers.
• Build an in depth understanding of data flows across the mortgage and collections lifecycle, mapping how information moves from source systems to CRA files, and using this insight to strengthen controls and improve accuracy.
• Produce high quality, insightful analytics that support decision making across Credit Risk and Collections, including MI on data quality, exceptions, disputes/corrections, arrears performance, and customer outcomes.
• Support the Society's response to regulatory and industry developments, including CIGB implementation, CP26/7 consultation responses, and preparation for future changes to data contributor requirements.
• Work collaboratively across the organisation, providing subject matter expertise on credit information, supporting colleagues on projects, change activity and remediation initiatives, and helping embed strong data governance across teams.
• Supporting others. You will use your expert knowledge and experience to support other team members as well as colleagues from across the business.

About You

To succeed in this role you must have direct experience of credit bureau reporting (CRA data contributor side). Alongside this you will have:

• Excellent understanding of batch reporting, data mapping and reconciliations.
• Proven experience working with IT and data teams to resolve data quality issues.
• Background in credit risk, collections or customer performance analytics.
• Expert skills in data manipulation, SAS (or similar statistical packages), SQL and Microsoft Excel.
• Outstanding analytical and problem solving skills with the ability to identify trends or areas of concern within data.
• Continuous improvement mindset and always looking for ways we can improve our processes.
• Excellent communication skills with an ability to present findings and influence at a senior level

About us

At YBS we don't have shareholders, we have members. We care about people and that includes you. So here, you'll be respected for who you are, you'll be able to bring your whole self to work, and you'll have everything you need to build a long and rewarding career.

Flexibility

We offer a range of flexible working options without unsocial hours, which can help you find a healthy work life balance. Whether it's finishing early for an appointment or fitting your studies and hobbies in around your working hours, we can help make it work for you.

Development

We want you to feel challenged here. Whatever your ambitions, we're committed to helping you develop your skills and move ahead in your career journey. From day one, we'll set you up for success with a brilliant induction and full training plan, all designed to get you up to speed quickly.

Inclusivity

We're passionate about creating an inclusive environment where everyone is welcome and able to be themselves. If you'll go the extra mile to help our members, you'll fit right in and feel you belong here.

About our Benefits

We offer lots of fantastic rewards that you can make the most of in and out of work, including:

• Holiday. You'll get 25 days plus Bank Holidays, as well as the option to buy up to a further 5 days.
• Bonus. At YBS we work collaboratively and share in our success together, so when we reach our goals we're all rewarded with an on target bonus of 7% of eligible pay (with the opportunity to earn up to a maximum 15%).
• Pension. We know how important it is to save towards the future, that's why we'll contribute up to 11% into your YBS pension.
• Healthcare. Health and wellbeing are an important part of life at YBS, when you join us, you'll have access to a range of health benefits to suit your life including private medical insurance, dental and healthcare plans.
• My Benefits. When you join YBS you'll have access to our self service benefits portal, where you can access a range of retail, hospitality and health discounts,

If you have any questions about this role, please contact Olivia Eaton at