zilch - Collections Strategy Analyst
Requirements
• Strong analytical skills and confidence working with data. • Exposure to collections, arrears management, recoveries, or credit risk analytics. • Good SQL skills, with the ability to query, manipulate, and summarise data. • Experience in, or a genuine interest in, Collections, Credit Risk, fintech, lending, or financial services. • Ability to interpret analysis, identify opportunities, and explain findings clearly. • A proactive mindset, with an interest in turning insight into practical strategy proposals and operational actions. • Strong attention to detail, particularly when working with performance data, recurring analysis, and target tracking. • Comfortable working with stakeholders across different teams. • Awareness of fair customer outcomes and regulatory expectations in a collections environment. • Curious, organised, and keen to learn about collections strategy in a fast-moving fintech environment. • Experience with Looker or a similar BI/reporting tool. • Understanding of BNPL, consumer credit, lending, or payments. • Exposure to segmentation, customer treatment strategies, operational performance analysis, or contact strategy. • Experience analysing external partner performance, such as DCAs or Debt Purchasers, would be beneficial but is not essential. • Professional Memberships. • Learning Suite for e-courses. • Internal Training Programmes. • FCA & Regulatory training.
Responsibilities
• Build an understanding of Zilch’s end-to-end collections lifecycle, including early arrears, later-stage collections, external partner activity, and recoveries. • Use data and insight to identify opportunities to improve collections strategy, customer treatment, segmentation, allocation, and recovery outcomes. • Develop practical recommendations and proposals, with guidance, to support improvements across the collections lifecycle. • Monitor collections performance, including targets, trends, customer outcomes, and key metrics such as roll rates, cure rates, liquidation, recoveries, placements, and payment performance. • Use SQL to extract, analyse, and summarise data to support collections insight, strategy development, and decision-making. • Assist with segmentation and allocation analysis across delinquency stages, customer groups, DCAs, and Debt Purchasers. • Support analysis of DCA and Debt Purchaser placement, performance, and outcomes. • Help investigate performance movements, identifying potential drivers, risks, and areas for improvement. • Track the impact of strategy changes, operational initiatives, and external partner performance. • Work with Collections, Credit Risk, Operations, Data, and other stakeholders to turn analysis into practical proposals and next steps. • Support ad hoc analysis to answer business questions and improve understanding of collections performance.
Benefits
• Pension scheme. • Death in Service scheme. • Income Protection. • Permanent employees enjoy access to our Share Options Scheme. • 5% back on in-app purchases. • £200 for WFH Setup. • Health & Wellbeing: • Private Medical Insurance including; • GP consultations (video, telephone or face-to-face). • Prescribed medication. • In-patient, day-patient and out-patient care. • Mental health support. • Optical, dental & audiological cover. • Physiotherapy. • Advanced cancer cover. • Menopause support. • Employee Assistance Programme including: • Unlimited mental health sessions. • 24/7 remote GP & physiotherapy. • 24/7 helpline for emotional & practical support. • Savings & discounts on everyday shopping. • 1:1 personalised well-being consultations. • Gym membership discounts. • Family Friendly Policies: • Enhanced maternity pay. • Enhanced paternity pay. • Enhanced adoption pay. • Enhanced shared parental leave. • Learning & Development: • Hybrid working: office-based Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday; remote working Tuesday and Friday • Casual dress code. • Workplace socials. • Healthy snacks.
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