Risk Analyst, iwoca
Credit Risk Modelling
£40-55k
Offers share options
1-3 days a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
Be an early applicant
Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£40-55k
Offers share options
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To fund one million small businesses.
Role
Who you are
- A quantitative background, such as a degree in mathematics, statistics, economics, engineering, or a related field
- Ability to analyse data and generate insights to support decisions
- Ability to evaluate underwriting processes and improve credit models or policies
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to tailor analysis and recommendations to different audiences
- A team player, with the ability to work confidently and enthusiastically with different people and teams
Desirable
- Experience in B2B or B2C credit risk, lending, and strategy
- Proficiency in SQL and Python
- Experience with data visualisation tools like Looker
What the job involves
- The Credit Risk Modelling team builds and improves the models that drive iwoca’s lending decisions
- They combine data science, engineering, and risk expertise to balance automation with human judgement, and their work supports everything from underwriting and pricing to portfolio monitoring
- The team’s work is central to iwoca’s growth and has a direct impact on both customer outcomes and business performance
- The team includes eight data scientists, two developers, and three risk analysts, all working hybrid schedules in London. The team’s work is quite collaborative and there’s always four or five people in the office on a given day
- The team plans objectives for each quarter and manages progress with weekly meetings. They also have standups every other day to share concerns and help each other
- You’ll analyse data and contribute to the development of our credit models for the enhanced underwriting segment
- You’ll work with analysts, data scientists, and senior stakeholders to shape iwoca’s lending strategy
- Build expertise in the credit domain
- Develop your analytical skills through exposure to different experimental approaches and complex analysis
- Practice turning data into information, and information into insights, so that you and various stakeholders can deliver improvements with real impact for our customers
- Monitoring and refining risk models to improve decision-making and portfolio outcomes
- Analysing portfolios and tests to investigate credit performance, identify drivers of change, and adapt lending strategies
- Improving our data, systems, and workflows to strengthen underwriting and monitoring
- Supporting new product launches and adapting policies to meet investor and regulatory needs
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK SMEs are the backbone of a complex economy that is constantly changing, so the need for fast and responsive access to finance is becoming more and more important to ensure their success and growth. iwoca allows SMEs access to business loans in less than a minute, with its API and business marketplace partnerships.
With offerings like iwoca's, gone are the days where waiting up to eight weeks for a loan decision was viable. Its simplified business loans of £1,000 - £500,000 come with no fees attached, and applying online takes no more than five minutes. The ready availability of iwoca loans gives business owners a level of certainty, so that they can make instant decisions to help their business grow.
iwoca has made a number of partnerships with other players in the business finance space, including an impressive industry-first invoice checkout integration with QuickBooks. Funding raised by the company, which is now operating at net profitability, will enable it to meet a recent surge in demand for corporate loans and offer more to larger SMB businesses. And the company has made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since launching, positioning itself as a leading European fintech.
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Opportunities to learn
"Great opportunities available to learn from both individuals through shadowing, and teams through presentations and even secondment opportunities -..."
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Aug 2025
$16.2m
SERIES D
Aug 2019
$13.7m
GRANT
Total funding: $115.4m
Company benefits
- Work where you work best: Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside. We champion flexible working in all our teams
- Invest in iwoca: We want people to be invested in iwoca's success so after six months you'll be awarded share options
- Keep yourself healthy: We offer comprehensive health insurance and cash plans. You'll also get gym discounts and we host yoga classes in the office every week
- Start (and end) your day right: Each floor of iwoca HQ has a fully stocked fridge for breakfast and every Friday we unwind with beers and wine
- Life-work balance: We know your life outside of work comes first. We offer enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit. We also have unlimited unpaid leave
- Learning and development: Whether you want to learn to code, experiment with motion design, or beat cognitive biases, you'll have time and budget to invest in your professional development
Company values
- Motivated: Going to work shouldn't feel like a slog, so we want everyone in the team to personally care about what they're working on. We stay motivated by celebrating our wins, learning from our mistakes, and always looking for new gaps to step into
- Smart: At iwoca being smart isn't about what you know, it's about how you think. Smart thinking means looking at each problem by asking ‘why’ first, then figuring out ‘how’
- Humble: We know all ideas are flawed, all code has bugs, and everyone makes mistakes - it’s how we learn. For us, being humble means you question yourself first, rather than your team
- Growth Mindset: We think there's always a better way to solve a problem. So we never let ourselves get comfortable with being good enough
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Christoph Rieche
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously spent 7 years at Goldman Sachs as a Vice President before co-founding iwoca in 2011.
Joost Versteeg
(CMO)Joost initially joined iwoca in 2017 as an Intern. Since then, they have held a number of roles, from Growth Analyst to Head of Commercial Strategy and became CMO in 2024.
People progressing
Serita joined as a Customer Onboarder, before moving into the Broker Team. Most recently they have been promoted to Partnership Manager.
Leo joined in 2018 as a Client Onboarder. Since then, they have worked in a number of roles and now serve as the Product Manager.
Jenny originally joined the Client Onboarding team and now leads the Customer Success department for the German business.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at iwoca
- We work hard to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that diversity isn't an optional add-on, it's the core ingredient of what makes us great.
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