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Sr. Risk Analyst

Cortex
Irving, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 7/27/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 8/26/2026
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Description

Cortex Management LLC d/b/a Cortex seeks Sr. Risk Analysts in Irving, TX.

  • Establish, maintain, and revise underwriting strategies by conducting statistical and other data mining analyses on data including portfolio history, credit & alternate data and credit & fraud models developed by decision sciences team.
  • Understand statistical techniques including linear/logistic regression, CART, and CHAID.
  • Establish, maintain, and analyze various Key Performance Indicators that reflect the unit economics and underlying portfolio profitability including Revenue & Yield rates, Charge-offs and loss rates, Recovery, Customer Acquisition Costs (CAC).
  • Develop portfolio review materials on a periodic basis that captures key trends against benchmarks and analyze respective variance.
  • Communicate to senior management and other credit committee members the key trends and general portfolio health.
  • Analyze and recommend optimal product parameters including loan amounts, interest rates and term based on target economics and performance metrics.
  • Co-ordinate with the internal F.b/c: Understanding business teams including marketing, product, decision sciences, and technology teams to implement the relevant portfolio strategies including marketing and underwriting strategies, credit policy and loss mitigation strategies. - Co-ordinate and participate in devising long term portfolio strategies with the credit, marketing, product and loss mitigation teams.
  • Develop testing framework, expectations on key metrics and analyze/measure against the key metrics, portfolio tests typically include loan offers, underwriting strategies, account management strategies including credit line increases, loan refinance and amendment programs.
  • Present findings and make recommendations to Credit committee and portfolio management teams.
  • Developing strategies to optimize consumer strategy, primarily marketing and risk strategies with the intent to maximize unit economics, reduce defaults (losses) and increase the scale of the portfolio.

Requires a Master’s degree in Statistics, Business Analytic, Operations Research, or a related field plus 2 years of related experience. Requires 2 years of experience in highly quantitative roles developing and recommending strategies using quantitative methods and justification; utilizing statistical techniques including decision tree, logistic regression, hypothesis testing; Financial Services, Risk Management, or Lending; SAS or R or Python or SQL, and Excel. This is a hybrid role with two in-office days per week at our Irving location.

40 hours/week, $115,000.00 per year. Applicants who are interested in this position may apply https://www.jobpostingtoday.com/ Ref #47593 for consideration.

Salary : $115,000

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