Description

Do you like helping small businesses grow? Do you enjoy working across organizations and scaling programs?

Come join us as we scale to be the most trusted B2B financial service solution provider across Amazon! The B2B Payments and Lending team provides invoicing, working capital and payment acceptance solutions to Amazon Business customers, sellers and other small business customers across Amazon. We are part of the global Amazon Payments organization, which aims to delight our customers by building payment experiences and financial services that are trusted, valued and easy to use from anywhere in any way.

B2B Payments and Lending Credit Strategy and Operations team is looking for a Sr. Underwriting Specialist to manage the credit underwriting operations of UK & EU4 credit portfolio. The successful candidate will be able to help to build a best in class underwriting program. In this role, the candidate will drive credit policy changes and procedures related to underwriting operations, as well provide guidance and mentorship to junior team members.

The ideal candidate should directly support continuous improvement initiatives, resourceful, Customer-focused and team oriented, with outstanding communication skills and the ability to build strong relationships with key stakeholders.

Key job responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day operations for the EU Credit Operations team

• Coach and mentor junior Credit Analysts on policy, procedures and functional initiatives, and scale underwriting operations team

• Assist in defining policies and product features to support automated and manual credit decisioning and monitoring

• Establish and constantly improve credit adjudication and performance monitoring platform

• Develop processes, mechanisms and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) to grow efficiently and in a scalable way

• Review complex credit decisions that require manual reviews or exceptions

• Identify, monitor and communicate the right metrics to measure process quality, decision quality and team productivity

• Participate in program operations, partner with product managers and contribute to team-wide improvement goals

• Own relationships with Sales and Business operations to ensure balance between customer needs and prudent risk management

About the team

Amazon Business provides easy access to hundreds of millions of products – everything from IT and lab equipment to education and food service supplies – as well as business-only selection and pricing. Amazon Business represents an incredible opportunity to address a vast new market segment and customer base. The B2B Payments and Lending team provides invoicing, working capital and payment acceptance solutions to Amazon Business customers, sellers and other small business customers across Amazon. We are part of the global Amazon Payments organization, which aims to delight our customers by building payment experiences and financial services that are trusted, valued and easy to use from anywhere in any way.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

London, GBR

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent

• Demonstrated experience of Commercial underwriting using financial statements, bank statements or credit information

• Experience in managing, implementing and executing an operations and underwriting program for a large, complex, multi-national portfolio

• Experience managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders, including sales

• Problem-solving skills, including the ability to recognize non-obvious patterns

• Effective time management, prioritization, and organizational skills

• Growth potential to develop as a senior executive

• Experience in finance or banking

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA, CFA or Master's Degree in relevant fields

• Hands-on experience of working with data tools/languages such as SQL, Python, SAS etc.

• Additional European language skills is a plus (e.g. German, Spanish, French, Italian)

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