Senior Strategy Analyst

Capital One Capital One · Banking · London, United Kingdom +1

This role focuses on using analytical skills to solve complex business challenges within Capital One's Analytics department, specifically in areas like Marketing Strategy, Lending Strategy, Customer Management, Valuations, Financial Support, or Fraud. The Senior Strategy Analyst will build new credit risk strategies, optimize lending decisions, deliver strategic recommendations, and ensure good customer outcomes by tracking credit decision performance. While SQL and Python skills are a plus, they are not strictly required as training will be provided. The role emphasizes analytical problem-solving, strategic thinking, and project leadership within the financial services sector.

What you'd actually do

  1. Using your analytical skills to solve complex business challenges, finding patterns in the data and building new credit risk strategies. For example, you could determine who is most likely to use a credit limit increase responsibly, the optimal account terms on a price comparison website, or the best support for customers behind on payments.
  2. Optimising lending decisions to drive sustainable lending growth and improve customer experiences.
  3. Delivering strategic recommendations and bringing them to market - working with product, data and tech teams to deliver them.
  4. Ensuring good outcomes for customers by tracking and drawing insights from performance of credit decisions.

Skills

Required

  • analytical skills
  • mathematical skills
  • critical thinking skills
  • project leadership
  • collaboration
  • university degree or equivalent
  • consulting or financial services experience

Nice to have

  • SQL
  • Python

What the JD emphasized

  • building new credit risk strategies
  • optimising lending decisions
  • delivering strategic recommendations