Portfolio Risk Manager at Watercress Financial Group LLC – West Des Moines, Iowa

The consumer credit Portfolio Manager is responsible for the ongoing credit performance, risk management and delinquency monitoring of the company’s home improvement loan portfolio. This role owns the end-to-end monitoring, analysis, and optimization of loan performance, ensuring that repayment, delinquency, cure rates, and charge-offs remain within the company’s risk appetite and financial targets. The Portfolio Manager works closely with the analytical credit risk team to develop, test and implement new or enhanced strategies at time of origination to improve future loan portfolio performance.

Watercress Financial is a home improvement lender originating across the United States. This position is high visibility, with frequent interaction with the CEO, President, head of Operations, FP&A, Compliance and Capital Markets. Candidates should be comfortable working in a highly entrepreneurial company where smart ideas, fast analysis, and thinking ahead are high-value personal traits.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Create and maintain monitoring reporting for consumer loan portfolio performance
• Recommend strategies and provide analysis and back-testing to minimize delinquency and charge off, while optimizing loan approval, look-to-book rates, and repayment rates.
• Detect emerging credit risk trends in the economy, market or portfolio, and provide strategic recommendation to reduce credit risk or optimize profitability
• Provide transparent, defensible reporting to executive leadership and risk committees
• Create, maintain and enhance: loan loss forecasting, prepayment models, roll rate analysis, transition rate analysis.

QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA or 4yr degree Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Actuarial, Com-Sci or other analytical field
• Five or more years in a consumer lending portfolio management, FP&A, risk or similar role
• Confident working independently , detailed oriented
• Strong working knowledge of: credit bureau data, consumer loan portfolio, loan repayment and delinquency behavior

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS

• Experience with consumer loan capital markets, FP&A, loan securitization
• MS Excel, Microsoft Power stack (PowerBI, PowerQuery, PowerPivot, PowerAutomate) and SQL
• MLL, boosted/ensemble and/or chat models