Credit Analyst

Required Skills:

• Strong proficiency in SAS, including Advanced SAS Programming and SAS/SQL.

• Solid domain knowledge of Banking products, specifically Credit Cards and/or Personal Loans.

• Hands-on experience in at least one stage of the Credit Lifecycle:

• Acquisition
• Account Management
• Authorization
• Collections

Good to Have Skills:

• Basic understanding of Testing concepts (Data Testing, Business Logic Testing, Functional Testing).

• Experience with Decision Engines such as FICO DMP, Experian PowerCurve, FICO TRIAD, or FICO Blaze.

• Good knowledge of Python with hands-on experience in NumPy and Pandas.

• Exposure to GenAI and Agentic AI technologies.

Strong Data Analyst Profile with advanced Excel and SQL expertise

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Mandatory (Experience 1): Must have 4+ years of overall experience as a hands-on Data Analyst

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Mandatory (Tech skill 1): Must be highly proficient in advanced Excel — complex functions, macros, calculations, and pivots

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Mandatory (Tech skill 2): Must have strong hands-on SQL and a good understanding of relational database concepts

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Mandatory (Tech skill 3): Must be able to automate routine tasks using Python (for automation purposes)

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Mandatory (Skill 1): Must have exceptional analytical, problem-solving, and logical skills, with strong attention to detail and accuracy

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Mandatory (Skill 2): Must be able to understand complex data and business logic and convert it into a model (the role models complex utility tariffs, rates, and programs)

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Mandatory (Communication): Must have strong verbal and written communication, able to work independently with India- and US-based team members and articulate problems and solutions over calls and email.

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Mandatory (Location): Must be based locally in Pune (or the nearby Maharashtra belt — Mumbai, Nagpur), as the final round is in person

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Preferred (Domain): Experience in the Energy/Utility industry and familiarity with basic utility (electrical/gas) tariff concepts

The Role

Own end-to-end credit & fraud data science: feature engineering from raw bureau JSON ,SMS,DEVICE, scorecard / model development, Business Rule Engine (BRE) design, monitoring, and partnering with product/engineering to put rules live. You will work directly with the existing DS team,Tech,product and founders — decisions are data-backed and debated.

What you will own

1. Build and maintain credit scorecards and models for FTB and Repeat Borrowers (Xgboost, Random forest, Support Vector Machine Models, ensemble models, challenger models).
2. Engineer features from raw CRIF (or equivalent) bureau JSON — tradelines, enquiries, DPD histories, identity matches — and from raw SMS / FinBox alt-data (collections, rejections, salary, app footprint).
3. Design, validate, and ship Models: hard rejects, soft flags, amount caps — with clear lift/capture

/ approval trade-offs.

1. Own portfolio risk analytics: vintage / DPD / non-starter / POS bad-rate monitoring; propose tier pauses, cool-offs, and ladder-up changes.
2. Build fraud signals (device, SIM/OTP, mule, ring, post-disbursal disappearance) and help prioritise the fraud PRD backlog into production.
3. Partner with engineering to productionise features, rules, and models (Watchtower-style shadow underwriting, policy index, monitoring dashboards).
4. Challenge and refine existing tier/ladder policy with evidence; communicate clearly to founders and business.

Required experience

• Tenure: 5+ years overall experience in data science/analytics.
• Digital lending: Minimum 3 years hands-on in digital lending/consumer credit (NBFC, fintech lender, digital/STPL/) who has built models themselves.
• Scorecards/models: Built and deployed at least one credit scorecard (first-time borrower or repeat borrower, or combined model) into a live BRE / LOS. Should improve approval–bad-rate trade-offs from production experience.
• Bureau: Parsed and engineered features from raw bureau files (CRIF / CIBIL / Experian JSON or XML) — not only vendor-precomputed attributes.
• Non-starter models: Fraud/non-starter / First Payment default modelling experience in short-tenure lending.
• Limit Assignment: Experience with repeat-borrower ladder / limit-management policies.
• Monitoring and QC: Shadow underwriting/champion–challenger frameworks.
• Alt-data: Worked with SMS / alt-data / device / AA signals for underwriting or fraud (FinBox, similar vendors, or in-house SMS parsing).
• Stack: Strong SQL + Python (pandas, sklearn/Logistic / lightgbm/Xgboost/randomforest, statsmodels). Able to write production-quality notebooks and scripts, not just slide decks.
• Communication: Comfortable debating policy with founders/credit heads using data; owns the "show me the evidence" conversation.

Nice to have:

• Feature stores, Airflow/cron pipelines, S3 + Postgres + DynamoDB.
• Prior Experience: Prior work at a zero-to-one digital lender or STPL product.

What success looks like in 6 months

• A documented feature dictionary from raw bureau + SMS with IV/KS ranking.
• At least one new scorecard/model live with clear expected vs observed bad-rate impact.
• Non-starter / First Payment Defaults monitoring with actionable rule recommendations and clear demonstrated improvements in defaults
• Credible pushback on weak policy ideas — backed by analysis, not opinion.