Credit Risk Manager

Dublin

🚀 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 ❤️

📍Dublin | 💶 €93,500 - €114,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance + benefits | Hear from the team ✨

About the Position

We’re looking for a Credit Risk Manager to help drive the credit and growth strategy for our consumer lending products as we grow our business in Ireland. Our credit teams are part of our Credit Discipline which drives a strong culture of data-driven decision making across the whole company. We’re great believers in powerful, real-time analytics and empowerment of the wider business. All our data lives in one place and is super easy to use. 90% of day-to-day data-driven decisions are covered by self-serve analytics through Looker which gives analysts the head space to focus on more impactful business questions and analyses.

Join a team where your ideas can rapidly transform into reality, leveraging our cutting-edge technology and agile ways of working. Our credit analysts and managers are fully embedded into a product squad alongside Product Managers, Engineers, Designers, Marketers, Customer Researchers, Data Scientists etc. This enables us to solve customer problems in a fast-paced and innovative way.

Responsibilities

• Working closely with Borrowing squad leadership to develop and execute an ambitious growth strategy
• Collaborating with people from engineering, marketing, product, risk and control to design and deliver new products and customer journeys
• Leading the development and maintenance of the NPV models and affordability strategies that underpin the Borrowing underwriting decisions
• Monthly monitoring and reporting on Borrowing performance to stakeholders up to executive level
• Collaborating with the Decision Science team to maximise value from our internal and external data through cutting-edge ML models
• Promoting a culture of proactive, high quality analysis and ensure we have the right credit capabilities, infrastructure and talent in place to scale safely

Requirements

• Extensive experience in unsecured lending in Ireland
• Deep understanding of lending economics and experience developing and deploying underwriting strategies and credit models
• Strong analytical and data capabilities, backed up by technical coding skills. SQL, Python and Looker experience is a plus
• Experience with the development and maintenance of NPV models
• Strong understanding of the regulations that apply to lending in Ireland
• Thrive in a fast-paced environment and are keen for the chance to improve our products and help ship changes to our customers
• Strong communicator, able to cut through complex problems and articulate decision points, particularly to senior leadership
• Experience in project management and coordination across teams
• Work well collaborating in a team with diverse skill-sets and personality types
• Highly motivated and energized by the idea of bringing a positive impact to our customers and Monzo

We Offer

• Salary range of €93,500 - €114,000 + Incentive Awards tied to your performance
• Hybrid working model, based in our Dublin office 3 days a week. You will also travel to Monzo’s head office in London from time to time
• Flexible working hours
• Annual Leave - 34 days including public holidays (24 holiday days + 10 public holidays)
• €1,200 learning budget each year to use on books, training courses and conferences
• Private healthcare scheme
• Pension scheme: the minimum contribution is 4% and Monzo matches any additional contributions that you make up to a maximum of 6%
• Wellbeing benefits: financial education, women’s and men’s health support, mental health benefits, including coaching and counselling

About the Company

Diversity and inclusion are a priority for us and we’re making sure we have lots of support for all of our people to grow at Monzo. At Monzo, we’re embracing diversity by fostering an inclusive environment for all people to do the best work of their lives with us. This is integral to our mission of making money work for everyone. You can read more in our blog, 2026 Diversity and Inclusion Report and 2025 Gender Pay Gap Report.

We’re an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to age, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, family or parental status, national origin, or veteran, neurodiversity or disability status.

If you have a preferred name, please use it to apply. We don't need full or birth names at application stage 😊

Apply for this Job

The application journey has 3 key steps:

1. An introductory video call with a member of the Monzo Recruitment team
2. An initial video call with the hiring manager
3. A series of role-specific, case study & behavioural interviews
4. A final call with senior leadership

This process should take around 4-5 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.

We'll only close this role once we have enough applications for the next stage. Please submit your application as soon as possible to make sure you don't miss out.

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