At Fingerhut, you will enter a culture that encourages team members to be bold and courageous. A culture that is zealous in pursuit of our mission to help our customers live a better financial life. In this culture, our team members find opportunities to stretch themselves, have a voice that is valued and is listened to have a sizeable impact on the business, work cross-functionally and collaboratively. We are continually innovating and improving, challenging ourselves to take risks, learn from mistakes, and celebrate success as a team. We also grow careers, giving employees on-the-job stretch assignments, lateral moves to expand knowledge bases, and promotional opportunities that help to accelerate development.

The Credit Risk Analyst is responsible for front-end originations, customer management, and/or credit line management programs for Fingerhut or additional retail brands as assigned. This position will perform basic analysis within existing credit programs. The goal is to optimize performance and manage different initiatives across the entire lifecycle of account management post-origination. The Credit Risk Analyst will be involved in all phases of the credit life cycle, working closely with our Marketing, Decision Sciences, Forecasting and Credit Implementation teams to support our growing suite of credit products.

This is not just another job; Fingerhut’s mission is to help Americans live a better financial life by helping them establish, build, or rebuild their credit. You’ll help the business hold itself accountable to deliver on our mission every day.  

We empower each employee to put the customer first and our culture of ensuring all employees have an impact enables an entrepreneurial passion. No matter what stage of your career, you’ll make an impact on business results and interface with key leaders. As we continue to invest in machine learning, data-driven modeling, CRM tools and innovation, the future is very exciting. Join us in our mission! 

This role is based out of our Eden Prairie, MN head office within our hybrid environment that has team members come into the office 3 days a week.  

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Assist in the design and implementation of account management or acquisition strategies using basic methodologies. Support risk analysis for various Marketing initiatives as well as monitoring and identifying changes in portfolio performance. Support internal stakeholders to ensure data is accurate, available in a timely manner, updated as part of new initiatives, and can be extracted/analyzed quickly. Support credit reporting across the customer life cycle from pre-screen to charge-off; ensure reporting is accurately executed and provides value-added insights into variances. Work on validating models against the customer population, including ongoing maintenance and documentation. Help communicate status of all credit initiatives in a timely and effective manner. Other duties or responsibilities as assigned.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or business field (Statistics, Finance, Engineering, Information Systems, etc.) or High School Diploma with 5+ years industry experience. Minimum 1 year experience with SAS or similar programing language and exposure to SQL, decision trees and Excel. Minimum 1 year experience in an analytics/modeling/reporting role.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Master’s degree or CFA Desire to learn and ask questions about models and data aggregated from multiple sources. Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively as a team. Experience clearly summarizing and communicating results from analysis; present findings to more senior level team members. Analytical and results oriented, independent thinker and strong problem solver.

About Fingerhut

BLST Operating Company (Bluestem Brands) is a group of FinTech, and eCommerce Retail businesses (www.bluestem.com) led by our Fingerhut and Orchard Portfolios. This position falls under Fingerhut – a long-standing fintech company. Check out www.fingerhut.com to see who we are and what we do for our customers. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build, or rebuild credit. Qualifying customers use their accounts for e-Commerce purchases at fingerhut.com for everything they and their family need across a broad selection of national brands. 

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