Job Description:
As the Chief Credit Officer (CCO), you will spearhead our credit, risk, and exposure management initiatives. Your leadership will be instrumental in crafting and maintaining risk and credit policies, supervising credit evaluation models, and ensuring adherence to regulatory guidelines. Leveraging your expertise, you'll steer our product strategy and cultivate relationships with key stakeholders, such as C-level executives, regulators, and investors. Additionally, you will take ownership of the Eazifunds Marketplace Solution, connecting borrowers and lenders, and act as the driving force behind its direction and scalability, effectively serving as its CEO.
Qualifications:
- Subject Matter Expert in Credit, Risk and Exposure Management and Policies
- In-depth knowledge and familiarity with Federal, State and Local Regulation, particularly for smaller banks, credit unions and other regulated lenders
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in developing, testing and implementing Credit, Risk and Exposure models
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to interact and present to, C-Level executives, Regulators, and Investors
- Proven ability to thrive in a a fast paced and entrepreneurial environment
Responsibilities:
1. General
- Owns, develops and maintains robust Risk and Credit Policies
- Oversees and owns the Credit Evaluation Models and Processes for both the Enterprise Software offering and the Eazifunds Marketplace
- Continually evaluates the performance of the Models and Processes to improve performance and accuracy while keeping the process as inclusive as possible adhering to our principal of expanding access to credit to as many borrowers as possible
- Provides product direction to the technical product manager(s) and development teams supporting the Credit Models and Processes
- Establishes and maintains risk and exposure metrics for the Software offering
- Stays updated with regulatory and compliance issues as related to risk and reporting findings to the CEO, COO and CTO on same
- “Voice” of Risk and Credit to all constituencies, internal and external
- Reports on all risk and credit activities (with the COO and CEO) to the board and to investors
2. Eazifunds Marketplace
- Owns the product from the business perspective. Responsible for the functionality and value for both borrowers and lenders, constantly improving same
- Provides product direction to and works closely with the technical product manager(s) and development teams supporting the Marketplace, continually driving performance improvements and growth
- Identifies, establishes and maintains relationships with sources of capital and liquidity
- Participates in pitches to Partners, Ecosystems, and other sources of borrowers to drive growth and scale of the Marketplace offering
- Establishes and monitors risk and exposure metrics for both borrowers and lenders
- Monitors and reports on delinquent and bad debt value and trends
- Leads initiatives on bad debt recoveries
Plus:
- Prior experience with building a marketplace lending solution
- Prior experience working with a fintech friendly bank
- A strong network to lenders, banks and credit providers
- Prior experience as an entrepreneur
What we can offer:
- Salary
- Equity/Stock Options
- Performance Based Bonus
- Benefits
- Remote working
If you are a visionary leader with a passion for leveraging AI to transform lending, we invite you to join us on this exciting journey as a Chief Credit Officer at Eazifunds. Together, let's redefine the future of how to lend and borrow.