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Credit Risk Manager, Portfolio Management

Posted on 4 October 2026New

About the role

💼 What you will do

• Join Monzo’s Borrowing team as Credit Risk Manager for Flex portfolio management. • Build Flex portfolio strategy from scratch in a true zero-to-one role. • Challenge legacy banking assumptions and put customers at the heart of lifecycle strategies. • Lead an initial team of 3 credit analysts, with scope to grow. • Lay the groundwork for Flex’s expansion into Europe. • Earn £100,000–£130,000 plus incentives, working remotely from anywhere in the UK.

📋 Job Requirements

• Bring strong commercial and strategic experience leading credit for unsecured lending portfolios. • Show portfolio management experience across risk-based pricing, retention, product upgrades and loss mitigation. • Thrive in ambiguous, zero-to-one environments and build strategies from scratch. • Balance sharp credit instincts with a passion for good customer outcomes and conduct risk. • Manage stakeholders well, from engineering squads to legal, compliance and executives. • Show a proven track record of leading and developing analytical talent. • Write SQL confidently and drive a data-first culture. • Be based in the UK.

🌟 Nice-to-have

• Bring exposure to credit card lifecycle management. • Write Python. • Use Looker for analytics. • Bring experience scaling lending products into new markets.

🎯 Responsibilities

• Build frameworks to monitor and forecast risk and revenue across the Flex portfolio. • Design and optimise a risk-based pricing programme that balances commercial and customer outcomes. • Create credit strategies for upgrades, engagement incentives and balance transfers. • Develop loss mitigation strategies, such as credit limit decreases, that protect vulnerable customers. • Manage, coach and grow a team of 3 credit analysts. • Act as the embedded credit expert within a squad of Product, Engineering, Design and Marketing. • Work with 2nd Line Credit Risk, Legal and Compliance. • Turn complex data into clear narratives for executive stakeholders.

About Monzo

📊 Monzo at a glance

🚀 Why Join - Our Take

We have been Monzo customers for years and have always loved their beautiful, simple app UI. We believe their product has a positive impact on millions of customers, motivating them to be more conservative with their spending and helping them save money. Monzo, as a company, has consistently grown over the past 10 years and is known for its strong company culture, generous benefits, and leadership that strives to be truly transparent and cares about its colleagues. It is a company that helps you advance your career and grow as a professional, working with great teams. If you like to join a thriving, upcoming bank and help millions of customers lead a financially sound life, Monzo gives you the opportunity to push ahead.

😃 What Monzo offers

• Earn £100,000–£130,000 plus performance-linked incentive awards. • Work remotely from anywhere in the UK, with ad hoc meetings in London. • Enjoy flexible working hours that fit around life, such as school drop-offs. • Get a £1,000 annual learning budget for books, courses and conferences. • Receive visa sponsorship and relocation support to the UK. • Go through a straightforward three-stage interview process with no trick questions.

💖 What makes Monzo unique

Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, replacing the confusing ways of traditional banking. Starting as a prepaid card, it now offers personal and business accounts, joint and kids’ accounts, credit, savings, investments and pensions in the UK. Its Flex product is reinventing credit cards to give customers more visibility and control over their spending.

💬 What employees say

"It does truly feel like we are trying to solve pertinent problems in people’s lives, their ability to achieve more and be better with their money. I feel very priviledged to be a part the mission here at Monzo."

Heldiney Pereira
Product Designer

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