
Senior Credit Analyst
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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 ❤️
Our team ⭐
Our Borrowing business is growing rapidly across both existing products and a range of new initiatives. From credit cards and loans to emerging lending products, we’re building solutions that give customers greater control, transparency, and flexibility in how they manage their finances.
If you’re interested in using data to understand lending performance, improve decision-making, and support the development of credit strategies, this role offers the opportunity to work on meaningful problems with clear business impact.
This is a high-impact, cross-functional environment where you’ll work closely with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Finance, and Risk & Control to drive sustainable, profitable, and responsible growth across our lending portfolio.
You’ll operate at the intersection of credit risk, commercial performance, and customer experience, helping ensure Monzo’s borrowing products remain competitive, scalable, and aligned with strong customer outcomes.
🔑 You’ll play a key role by...
As a Senior Credit Analyst, you’ll play a critical role in shaping Monzo’s credit strategy across credit card products. Your responsibilities will include:
- Design and refine credit underwriting and limit strategies to optimise risk and growth
- Analyse portfolio performance (arrears, utilisation, revenue, losses, vintage curves) and identify actionable insights
- Build and interpret NPV and profitability models to inform strategic decisions
- Develop segmentation frameworks to identify revenue and risk pressure points
- Lead analytical deep-dives into portfolio trends and emerging risks
- Partner with Product and Engineering teams to design and test new features and strategy changes
- Evaluate the commercial and customer impact of pricing, eligibility, and limit decisions
- Present clear, structured recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Support regulatory and governance requirements, ensuring strategies align with policy and risk appetite
How we work:
Our main tech hub is in London, but our data teams are based all over the UK — from Brighton to the Western Isles.
We love meeting in person, but there’s no pressure to come into the office, even if you’re nearby. You’ll do your best work where you feel most comfortable.
We value flexibility, connection, and wellbeing. You’ll have the freedom to work in a way that fits your life, whether that’s school drop-offs, avoiding rush hour, or making time for what matters most.
Work the way that works for you at Monzo! 💼
🤩 We’d love to hear from you if…
- You have experience in unsecured lending, ideally within credit cards
- A strong understanding of credit card economics (APR, utilisation, interchange, revolving behaviour, cost of funds, losses). Experience of modelling rewards cards is a plus.
- Experience building or influencing credit strategies (e.g. underwriting, limit management, pricing)
- Strong analytical and data capabilities, backed up by technical coding skills. SQL is a must-have, Python and Looker experience is a plus
- Experience working with NPV models, profitability analysis, and portfolio forecasting
- Confidence communicating complex analysis clearly to non-technical stakeholders
- Experience collaborating cross-functionally in a fast-paced environment
- An interest in balancing risk, growth, and customer outcomes
We're on the look out for L40 Senior Credit Analysts at the moment, you can read more in our Data Progression Framework.
🌈 The application journey has 3 key steps
- Recruiter call
- Initial call
- Final stage (x3 interviews) consisting of a case study, role specific interview and collaboration interview
This process should take around 3-4 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.
🙌 What’s in it for you
💰£76,500 to £108,100 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + Benefits
- We can help you relocate to the UK
- We can sponsor visas
- 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, at times that suit you and your team.
- Learning budget of £1,000 a year for 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.
Plus lots more! Read our full list of benefits.
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View Company ProfileMonzo is a fully licensed digital bank that operates entirely through a smartphone app, with no physical branches. It was one of the first 'challenger banks' in the UK designed to replace traditional high street banks. Monzo became famous for its transparency and ease of use—giving users instant notifications the second they buy a coffee, categorizing spending automatically, and offering fee-free spending abroad. It started as a prepaid card (originally called 'Mondo') but is now a full-fledged bank with over 9 million customers, known for its friendly tone and community-driven approach.
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