Senior Manager of Risk Analytics, Upstart

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience
• 7+ years of experience in risk analytics, or a related quantitative function in a banking or financial services environment
• Strong understanding of data modeling concepts in both transactional and analytical databases
• Demonstrated experience with risk data aggregation, KRI design and monitoring, or risk reporting infrastructure
• Expertise in SQL, Python and ETL optimization techniques; as well as data tools such as Looker, Mode, or comparable BI/analytics platforms

Desirable

• Upstart is hiring a Senior Manager, Risk Analytics to build and own the Risk teams’ risk data and analytics program, including the Key Risk Indicator (KRI) program and framework and quantitative risk reporting infrastructure.
• This role will work with first-line risk owners and second-line risk subject matter experts to: design and develop robust and scalable risk data models to empower the Risk team to retrieve meaningful insights; establish key risk indicators (KRIs) for all risk categories; implement centralized aggregation, monitoring, and reporting of those KRIs; and enforce a consistent methodology for risk metric measurement, threshold setting and monitoring, and breach escalation protocol and response framework.
• Additionally, this role will provide risk data support to all second-line risk teams, and will be a key standard setter for cross-team GRC tool usage.
• By establishing and running a centralized, quantitative risk monitoring program for Upstart Bank, this role is a key component of the overall ERM program, and will be a partner to senior first-line risk owners and second-line risk experts across all domains, as well as a liaison to external stakeholders such as examiners and auditors on the risk metrics program
• Understand how data is produced and consumed at a deep level in order to design risk data pipelines and models and build curated data sets to support enterprise-wide risk monitoring and reporting
• Own and manage the KRI program, collaborating with first-line risk owners and second-line risk domain SMEs to design, track, and report on risk metrics across all risk types and business activities
• Build and maintain risk reporting infrastructure, including dynamic dashboards, snapshot reporting, and risk data infrastructure and aggregation capabilities using existing company data sets and tools (e.g., Looker, Jira, Mode)
• Meet consumers of risk data where they are by wearing an educator’s hat and training them on risk dashboards and tools
• Provide data and analytical support for enterprise risk assessments, management and board reporting, exam and audit requests, and ad hoc risk data requests
• Partner with leaders in Risk to translate risk program requirements into scalable, repeatable data and reporting solutions
• Support the setup, maintenance, and administration of the GRC tool for all Risk teams by defining cross-team