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Decision Science Senior Manager

Employer
Lloyds Banking Group
Location
London
Salary
£87504 - £164070 per annum
Closing date
12 Jul 2022

Job Details

As the UK's largest retail, commercial and digital bank, we have a big responsibility to support the UK economy and put customers at the heart of everything we do.

We follow a clear set of principles which promote a positive, collaborative and creative culture. You'll find we're genuine about equal opportunity and deeply value diversity - all with a culture built around advancing the best in our people.

LBG has been named:

  • A Top 10 UK Employer for Working Families
  • A Times Top 50 UK Employer for Women
  • An Investing In Ethnicity Outstanding Employer
  • Business Culture Award for Best Large Organisation For Culture

We're also embarking on a major transformation programme - putting unprecedented levels of investment into our platforms, people and capabilities.

Could you help us become more insightful about data to reshape our business and deliver success?

ABOUT DECISION SCIENCE

Sitting within our Risk function, Decision Science is a centre of excellence for analytics, modelling and customer insights. The team support the wider Risk division by:

  • Delivering sophisticated data analytics and modelling to support retail and commercial customer needs and credit decisions across the credit lifecycle
  • Supporting the bank's prudential requirements such as capital and impairment allocation, and capital optimisation

We work with data that underpins vital business decisions, and together we make it possible to add customer value, control risk, and help to build a safe, strong bank for our customers.

Our roles are available in a variety of locations, and we support flexible and family-friendly ways of working.

THE ROLE

Leading the development and maintenance of industry leading credit risk models and other analytical solutions to support risk management across Lloyds Banking Group. The role provides the opportunity to:

  • Take ownership for delivery of modelling and analytic projects, ensuring these are completed in line with business requirements.
  • Lead the design of modelling solutions (model developments, calibrations, analytics etc.) to high technical standards and following internal policies and external regulation.
  • Think about data differently, using it to really understand customer behaviour and credit performance and to tell a story to the business in order to influence decision making.
  • Build positive relationships with colleagues and partners across the organisation and communicate clearly to agree modelling proposals and present recommendations.
  • Provide technical leadership, mentoring and management to less experienced team members.
  • Participate actively in the Decision Science management team, supporting senior managers in delivering of wider team initiatives and proactively contributing to development of positive team culture.

THE PERSON

We value diversity within the team, and we'll support you to reach your full potential, meet your personal career aspirations and really make a difference as you embark on a career with excellent development and progression opportunities.

We are looking for someone who is:

  • Comfortable working with numbers and have either a good degree in a numerate subject or equivalent quantitative experience gained in previous roles
  • Experienced in the use of programming languages (e.g., SAS, SQL, Python) to manipulate data and in the use of statistical modelling techniques
  • Knowledgeable in the fundamental principles of banking, credit risk management, economics.
  • Analytical problem solvers, combining innovation and creativity with understanding of the business and regulatory environment.
  • Well organised and able to lead analytical and modelling projects to a high standard and with limited guidance.
  • Effective communicators, building positive relationships with partners and communicating recommendations clearly to influence business decisions.
  • Proactive approach to personal development and supporting the development of less experienced colleagues

AND IN RETURN

We'll recognise and reward your performance. Our award-winning benefits package includes:

  • A competitive salary and annual performance-related bonus
  • A generous annual holiday allowance with the option to purchase up to 5 additional days per year
  • An additional annual flexible allowance that you can use to choose from a wide range of benefits, such as Cycle2work and enhanced medical benefits, or take as cash
  • A contributory pension scheme
  • Private medical insurance
  • Retail discount vouchers

THE ROLE

Manage and lead a team responsible for the development and maintenance of the bank's Mortgage Book credit risk IFRS9 models and other analytical solutions to support risk management across Lloyds Banking Group. The role provides the opportunity to:

  • Take ownership for delivery of modelling and analytic projects, ensuring these are completed in line with business requirements.
  • Lead the design of modelling solutions (model developments, calibrations, analytics etc.) to high technical standards and following internal policies and external regulation.
  • Manage a team of specialist modellers, providing coaching and direction to ensure their continued development
  • Build positive relationships with colleagues and partners across the organisation and communicate clearly to agree modelling proposals and present recommendations.
  • Build strong relationship with the bank's external auditors, supporting Senior Management throughout the reporting season.
  • Sets medium term objectives and takes responsibility for implement a team's performance management systems with guidance from senior colleagues.
  • Makes a significant improvement on short-term or long-term business performance by recommending authoritative technical and/or professional solutions.
  • Develops and/or delivers elements of a strategic planning system with guidance from senior colleagues.

Company

We’re creating an organisation that attracts, retains and develops the best talent in the industry, and one that openly embraces diversity too. But more than that – we want to be a great place to work. We invest in our people, offering the best training and coaching, and by encouraging them to contribute to our leading corporate and social responsibility practices. We offer flexible working hours and days, under our Work Options scheme. This means that you can have a challenging and rewarding career, and still have an ideal work/life balance.

Flexible working is at the heart of our strategy. We’re re-imagining where, when, and how our people work, with new approaches designed to meet the ever-changing needs of customers and colleagues. These include increasing our use of remote-working tools and technology, as well as placing less reliance on a 9-to-5 mindset. For many of our office-based colleagues, we work in hybrid ways which involves spending at least two days per week or 40% of their time at one of our office sites.

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