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Manager, Card Business Analytics
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Merrick Bank .
What We Do At CardWorks, we aim to help people connect with possibility and opportunity using our financial servicing expertise. Building meaningful, long-term relationships with consumers, our employees, and our clients is what matters most.
Who We Are CardWorks, Inc. is a diversified consumer finance service provider and parent company of CardWorks Servicing, LLC, Merrick Bank and Carson Smithfield, LLC.
CardWorks Servicing, LLC provides end-to end operational servicing functions for credit cards, secured cards, and installment loans. We service consumer and small business loans across the credit spectrum and offers backup servicing and due diligence services to capital providers and trustees.
Merrick Bank is an FDIC-insured Utah Industrial Loan Bank. Merrick operates three main business lines: credit cards, recreational lending, and merchant services.
Carson Smithfield, LLC provides a variety of post-charge-off debt recovery services, including digital self-service, IVR, live agent, and external agency management.
Role Overview The Manager, Card Portfolio Credit Strategy will help drive the continued growth and innovation of Merrick Bank’s portfolio credit strategies, leading and contributing to strategies and analyses with a direct and meaningful impact on the credit card portfolio and business. This role will focus on a wide spectrum of programs and workstreams across portfolio credit strategy such as the proactive credit line increase program, reactive credit line increase program, performance monitoring, credit line increase valuation, forecasting, and more. Additionally, the Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams –including Marketing, Acquisition Credit Strategy, Finance, Legal, and Compliance—to ensure upstream and downstream impacts are properly ingested, considered, and communicated.
Essential Functions
Drives portfolio credit strategy improvement and innovation: Conducts robust analyses leveraging internal models and tools to generate strategic insights and improvements across programs
Manages downstream/upstream expectations and impacts: Ensures tight feedback loop and appropriate integration of impacts across Acquisition Credit Strategy, Account Valuation, Finance, and other portfolio credit strategies
Partners with Modeling team: Collaborates with Modeling to influence model development as well as validate and implement the models
Executes test-and-learn agenda: Plans, launches, and monitors tests to further improve our existing programs and launch new ones
Conducts and improves performance monitoring: Maintains and updates existing monitoring suite, lead routine monitoring forums, and develop new views and insights
Supports and advances valuation tools: Conducts valuation exercises leveraging internal models and tools to determine the economics of a credit line increase; identifies and improves operational gaps and refine underlying assumptions
Leads ad-hoc analysis: Owns ad-hoc analyses from end-to-end, effectively delivering results while emphasizing efficiency, detail-orientation, and communication
Compliance With Laws & Regulations
Responsible for complying with all of the Bank’s internal control policies and procedures.
Responsible for understanding and complying with all laws and regulations to which the Bank is subject.
Responsible for communicating problems in operations, noncompliance with the code of conduct, noncompliance with laws and regulations, policy violations, or illegal acts.
Education And Experience
Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Business Intelligence, or Financial Engineering is required.
Master’s Degree is preferred.
Three (3) years’ experience in data analytics in informing strategy and product decisions
Previous experience in financial services, consulting, or corporate strategy
Summary Of Qualifications
Profound expertise in Python, SQL and Microsoft Excel/VBA
Proficiency with Tableau, PowerBI or similar tools
Proficiency with Microsoft office tools like Excel, Power point, word etc.
Comfort with ambiguity and working hands-on with large analytical datasets to perform complex analyses
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Demonstrated strengths with problem-solving, critical thinking, detail-orientation, and organization
Advanced quantitative skills, including knowledge of probability, statistical inference, and regression analysis principles.
Our Employee Value Proposition
Competitive Pay, including a Bonus Target or Variable Pay Incentive Program
Benefits Package -Medical, Dental, and Vision (plus much more)
401(k) Plan with Company Match
Short- & Long-Term Disability
Wellness Programs
Group Life and AD&D Insurance
Paid Vacation, Sick Days and bank Holidays
Employee Engagement Activities including Employee Appreciation Day, DEI Employee Resource Groups, Corporate Social Responsibility, Service Recognition
Equal Employment Opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We will conduct a thorough background check for all hires in compliance with applicable laws.
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Manager, Card Business Analytics
role at
Merrick Bank .
What We Do At CardWorks, we aim to help people connect with possibility and opportunity using our financial servicing expertise. Building meaningful, long-term relationships with consumers, our employees, and our clients is what matters most.
Who We Are CardWorks, Inc. is a diversified consumer finance service provider and parent company of CardWorks Servicing, LLC, Merrick Bank and Carson Smithfield, LLC.
CardWorks Servicing, LLC provides end-to end operational servicing functions for credit cards, secured cards, and installment loans. We service consumer and small business loans across the credit spectrum and offers backup servicing and due diligence services to capital providers and trustees.
Merrick Bank is an FDIC-insured Utah Industrial Loan Bank. Merrick operates three main business lines: credit cards, recreational lending, and merchant services.
Carson Smithfield, LLC provides a variety of post-charge-off debt recovery services, including digital self-service, IVR, live agent, and external agency management.
Role Overview The Manager, Card Portfolio Credit Strategy will help drive the continued growth and innovation of Merrick Bank’s portfolio credit strategies, leading and contributing to strategies and analyses with a direct and meaningful impact on the credit card portfolio and business. This role will focus on a wide spectrum of programs and workstreams across portfolio credit strategy such as the proactive credit line increase program, reactive credit line increase program, performance monitoring, credit line increase valuation, forecasting, and more. Additionally, the Manager will work closely with cross-functional teams –including Marketing, Acquisition Credit Strategy, Finance, Legal, and Compliance—to ensure upstream and downstream impacts are properly ingested, considered, and communicated.
Essential Functions
Drives portfolio credit strategy improvement and innovation: Conducts robust analyses leveraging internal models and tools to generate strategic insights and improvements across programs
Manages downstream/upstream expectations and impacts: Ensures tight feedback loop and appropriate integration of impacts across Acquisition Credit Strategy, Account Valuation, Finance, and other portfolio credit strategies
Partners with Modeling team: Collaborates with Modeling to influence model development as well as validate and implement the models
Executes test-and-learn agenda: Plans, launches, and monitors tests to further improve our existing programs and launch new ones
Conducts and improves performance monitoring: Maintains and updates existing monitoring suite, lead routine monitoring forums, and develop new views and insights
Supports and advances valuation tools: Conducts valuation exercises leveraging internal models and tools to determine the economics of a credit line increase; identifies and improves operational gaps and refine underlying assumptions
Leads ad-hoc analysis: Owns ad-hoc analyses from end-to-end, effectively delivering results while emphasizing efficiency, detail-orientation, and communication
Compliance With Laws & Regulations
Responsible for complying with all of the Bank’s internal control policies and procedures.
Responsible for understanding and complying with all laws and regulations to which the Bank is subject.
Responsible for communicating problems in operations, noncompliance with the code of conduct, noncompliance with laws and regulations, policy violations, or illegal acts.
Education And Experience
Bachelor's Degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Economics, Business Intelligence, or Financial Engineering is required.
Master’s Degree is preferred.
Three (3) years’ experience in data analytics in informing strategy and product decisions
Previous experience in financial services, consulting, or corporate strategy
Summary Of Qualifications
Profound expertise in Python, SQL and Microsoft Excel/VBA
Proficiency with Tableau, PowerBI or similar tools
Proficiency with Microsoft office tools like Excel, Power point, word etc.
Comfort with ambiguity and working hands-on with large analytical datasets to perform complex analyses
Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills
Demonstrated strengths with problem-solving, critical thinking, detail-orientation, and organization
Advanced quantitative skills, including knowledge of probability, statistical inference, and regression analysis principles.
Our Employee Value Proposition
Competitive Pay, including a Bonus Target or Variable Pay Incentive Program
Benefits Package -Medical, Dental, and Vision (plus much more)
401(k) Plan with Company Match
Short- & Long-Term Disability
Wellness Programs
Group Life and AD&D Insurance
Paid Vacation, Sick Days and bank Holidays
Employee Engagement Activities including Employee Appreciation Day, DEI Employee Resource Groups, Corporate Social Responsibility, Service Recognition
Equal Employment Opportunity We are an equal opportunity employer, and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic. We will conduct a thorough background check for all hires in compliance with applicable laws.
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