Credit Decisioning Specialist, Latam – Contract

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Credit Decisioning Specialist at CRNCY analyzing data to optimize credit risk and underwriting rules. Remote role facilitating impactful lending decisions in alternative data contexts.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze portfolio performance and identify opportunities to improve profitability through credit strategy
  • Model the probability of repayment, default and fraud from incomplete and alternative data, and build the statistical inference behind it
  • Turn that analysis into the credit rules themselves: approval strategy, underwriting requirements, first-loan sizing and customer segmentation
  • Optimize underwriting requirements and reduce unnecessary customer friction
  • Design and assess experiments to improve lending outcomes
  • Quantify trade-offs between growth, risk, customer experience and profitability
  • Translate analysis into practical underwriting and portfolio recommendations

Requirements:

  • Experience in at least one of: portfolio strategy or analytics, underwriting strategy, lending strategy, risk management, or another analytical role involving high-consequence decision-making under uncertainty
  • Used data and probabilistic reasoning to make or influence important business decisions
  • Evaluated trade-offs between competing objectives under uncertainty
  • Applied analytical judgment rather than relying solely on predefined rules or models
  • Translated analysis into practical business decisions and recommendations
  • Been accountable for the business outcomes of those decisions, not simply the quality of the analysis
  • Working capability, hands-on: statistical inference and probability; causal reasoning and selection bias; practical modeling — logistic regression, scorecards, gradient boosting — with clean validation discipline and no data leakage; experiment design and power; expected-value analysis; segmentation
  • Python and SQL at analysis-and-modeling level

Benefits:

  • USD contractor
  • Fully remote, location-flexible, with meaningful daily overlap with the Americas
  • Real ownership from day one, across multiple markets