Equifax is currently looking for a Credit Risk Consultant to join our Commercial team. This role is focused on providing pre- and post-sales consulting on technical and analytical solutions. The specialist will work in partnership with Sales and the broader Technology/Analytics organization to demonstrate innovative solutions and provide exceptional value-add to address our customers' objectives. This position involves traveling to customer sites as needed for collaborative assignments.
What you'll do
- Support commercial lending clients implementing Equifax's credit risk and portfolio management solutions
- Consult clients on how best to use these Equifax's solutions to proactively manage their commercial credit risk, improve their portfolio management capabilities, and to assist in their capital planning processes
- Provide technical support to clients relating to Equifax's commercial risk products, primarily Equifax's Absolute Probability of Default and other portfolio management products
- Provide training and demos on Equifax's commercial risk solutions
- Participate in Client Business Reviews and leverage Equifax's solutions and data to provide statistics on client portfolios and to consult on optimizing client's portfolio management strategies
- Work closely with clients to help answer product related questions or to research potential issues associated with Equifax's portfolio management and commercial risk products
- Analyze the performance of Equifax commercial risk solutions, institutions' own risk ratings or models, and current credit/risk practices to produce proof of concept analytics for prospective clients and to inform strategy recommendations for existing clients
- Be able to explain Equifax solutions, analyses, and findings to internal stakeholders and external customers
- Collaborate with other Analytics professionals, Sales, Operations, I.T. staff, and management to support Equifax's customers' needs and to consult customers on designing credit risk strategies leveraging Equifax's products
- Work on a variety of other projects, as they arise
- Travel: up to 10% (e.g. once per month, usually a day trip or one night stay)
What experience you need
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience are required
- 3+ years Client Facing experience/post sales support experience
- Three or more years of experience in Credit, Risk, Collections, or Portfolio management related roles
- College degree, preferably in a business/finance/economics major or a quantitative major (mathematics/statistics), or relevant experience
- Consistent with Equifax's 3/2+2 flexible work framework, a willingness to work Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday in Equifax's Chicago-based office
What could set you apart
- Master's Degree
- Client facing or Consulting experience within financial services or commercial lending spaces
- Fluent English and strong verbal and written communications skills
- Knowledge of SQL or other similar programming languages and tools
- Coursework or practical experience with Accounting and Statistics, particularly analyzing and working with very large datasets or lending portfolios
Position does not offer immigration sponsorship or support, including F-1 STEM OPT extension support .