Head of Decision Science
We are looking for a Head of Decision Science to join our Decision Science team within Risk.
The Risk team plays a crucial role in Funding Circle. They ensure our borrowers and investors get what we promise, use data and modelling to provide insights to the rest of the business, control and monitor the risk within our processes ensuring that we always deliver and they help us make data driven decisions to guide our strategy.
Funding Circle’s Decision Science team is hugely influential to our overall lending process. They build statistical models and use advanced quantitative techniques to enable many different teams across the organisation to optimise business and lending strategies.

• Report to the Chief Credit Officer, advising on the use of statistical models and advanced quantitative techniques to optimise business performance
• Working across our UK business, you will collaborate with experts in risk management, technology, data management, marketing, business operations to understand business needs and shape analytical solutions
• Managing a team of data scientists you will be responsible for designing, developing and implementing complex statistical models used for marketing targeting, credit underwriting, fraud prevention, collections, recoveries and customer experience
• You will ensure decision models are very reliable, through thorough validation and testing. You will champion best practices in model building and help shape quality standards. You will monitor model performance, identify issues and implement fixes
• You will research new data sources and new modelling techniques, helping Funding Circle identify next analytical innovations
• Identify, develop and maintain key relationships with internal and external stakeholders
• Have a clear and relentless focus on delivering business results