Financial Risk Manager Jobs in Ontario (NOW HIRING)

Who we are:

Financeit is a point-of-sale financing provider serving some of the largest home improvement and retail organizations in Canada.

Our platform helps businesses close more sales by offering customers affordable monthly payment options for their next big home improvement, vehicle or retail purchase.

We are small enough that you can make an impact within the company and large enough to make an impact in the market.

Financeit is a company where collaboration, inclusivity, fairness, and respect aren't just ideas that get talked about, but are part of who we are. If such a workplace intrigues you, we hope you'll join us.

About the role:

Do you thrive on finding simple and elegant solutions to complex problems using data and technology? Are you curious about the intersection of indirect consumer lending, capital markets and fintechs, and excited to join a team that tackles big challenges head-on?

If this sounds like you and you are ready to take your strategic thinking, advanced analytics skills, and knack for digging into the details to the next level while leaving your mark on a rapidly growing organization, we want to talk to you!

As the Sr. Manager, Commercial & Channel Risk Strategy, reporting to the Director of Risk Strategy, you'll work on developing channel risk management, commercial / small business (B2B) risk management and customer (B2B2C) credit risk management strategies for our largest verticals (home improvement and powersports lending), and some of our most sensitive products - i.e., multi-stage project financing, using a balanced strategic and analytic to optimise profitability while managing and mitigating risk across the business.

If you have the collaboration and world-class communication abilities, then this is your role. Oh, and yes, being fun matters. A lot.

What you'll do:

• Develop a company framework for managing channel risk, individual merchant risk, commercial product (multi-stage financing) risk, and concentration (ex. sub-vertical, geography, macroeconomic, etc.) risk.
• Build, deploy, maintain, continuously improve profit-optimising channel and merchant-level underwriting strategies, decisioning criteria, scores & controls.
• Support the development and continuous improvement of profit-optimising indirect consumer credit policies, strategies and tests for the home improvement and vehicle industries by ensuring that commercial counterparty exposure and channel effects are taken into consideration.
• Obtain internal alignment on, and deploy risk policies that are compliant with the organisation's risk appetite and review, and/or escalate, approve / decline requests outside of established guidelines.
• Monitor strategy performance in a timeline manner, develop and execute backtesting, and help guide reporting and trigger requirements - working collaboratively with cross-functional stakeholders as required - to ensure that policies, strategies, and scores are effective and high-performing.
• Conduct regular financial and risk reviews of merchants and loan quality audits, and recommend changes to policies and procedures based on identified process gaps while ensuring corrective action is taken.
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of team efficiency and effectiveness by identifying high quality / well-managed data sources and opportunities for the team to apply AI and automation to key processes, reports and documentation.
• Go beyond the basics and dig deep into trends, anomalies and analytic findings to link them to actual real-world events, macroeconomic events, industry developments, and/or individual merchant / customer attitudes and behaviours to draw meaningful conclusions and insights that can improve ongoing business outcomes.
• Work with cross-functional partners to understand and incorporate their ideas and objectives into risk strategies.
• Contribute to strategic projects and initiatives related to risk management and company growth.
• Bring energy, positivity, and a team-first attitude every day, while striving to make the team and yourself better.