Credit Risk Associate
Ramp
About Ramp
Ramp is the ultimate platform for modern finance teams. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution is designed to save businesses time and money, and free finance teams to do the best work of their lives. Our mission is to help build healthier businesses, and it’s working: over 15,000 businesses on Ramp to save an average 5% and close their books 8x faster.
Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables tens of billions of dollars in purchases each year.
Ramp's investors include Founders Fund, Stripe, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Coatue Management, D1 Capital Partners, Redpoint Ventures, General Catalyst, and Thrive Capital, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart. In 2023, Ramp was named Fast Company’s #1 Most Innovative Company in North America, LinkedIn’s #1 Top Startup in the U.S., a CNBC Disruptor, and a TIME100 Most Influential Company.
About the Role
As a member of Ramp's Risk Strategy & Operations team, you will leverage data to develop and optimize credit strategies, including underwriting and customer management strategies. This role requires an understanding of credit concepts, fluency with data, and the ability to drive a broad set of projects fairly independently. The role also requires the ability to work with cross-functional teams (product, engineering, operations, finance, marketing, sales and design) to partner and execute on risk strategies, and the ability to take ownership of credit risk outcomes and lead strategic initiatives.
What You’ll Do
Leverage internal and external data (e.g. banking data, commercial credit bureau data, financial accounting data, sales data, etc.) to create best in class credit policies (e.g. underwriting, credit limit increase programs, risk management) that will create value for Ramp and its customers
Understand Ramp’s exposure to risk across multiple products (charge card, reimbursements, bill pay, etc.) to create holistic underwriting and risk management strategies
Investigate and evaluate efficiency of risk policies, procedures, and processes
Analyze market and industry trends, identify potential macroeconomic risk factors and incorporate in credit policy
Partner with product, engineering and design teams to execute credit policies, improve operational tooling, and shape the risk management infrastructure
Partner with data scientists to build and leverage credit risk models in Ramp’s credit policy
Partner with finance teams to create and maintain risk adjusted returns framework, including loss forecasting
What You Need
Minimum 2 years of experience in credit risk management or quantitative strategy role
Minimum 2 years of experience using SQL or Python for data retrieval and manipulations
Experience within consumer/corporate/small business cards, payments, lending, or related industries
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Nice-to-Haves
Experience in high growth startups
Experience building complex financial products
Compensation
The annual salary/OTE range for the target level for this role is $114,750-$135,000 + target equity + benefits (including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k)
Benefits (for U.S.-based full-time employees)
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100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you
Partially covered for your dependents
One Medical annual membership
401k (including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp)
Flexible PTO
Fertility HRA (up to $5,000 per year)
WFH stipend to support your home office needs
Wellness stipend
Parental Leave
Relocation support
Pet insurance