Join our dynamic team as a Credit Structuring Specialist, where you’ll play a pivotal role in transforming challenges into opportunities! In this exciting position, you’ll engage directly with borrowers, assessing their unique situations and crafting tailored solutions to restructure distressed loans. Your expertise will not only help improve our financial outcomes but also make a real difference in the lives of our clients. If you are passionate about negotiation and problem-solving, this is your chance to shine and drive meaningful change in our lending strategy!

What you’ll do: 

• Identify restructuring/workout candidates based on pre-agreed criteria.
• Analyse flagged restructuring opportunities with borrowers to assess borrower outlook and opportunities for improving Probability of Default (PD) and Loss Given Default (LGD)
• Recommend strategies for credit approval
• Negotiate exposure restructuring
• Document revised commercial agreements.
• Monitor portfolio segments - Watchlist and Restructured Loans
• Reporting

As a Data Scientist - Classifications Model Specialist at Shift, you will play a pivotal role in maintaining and evolving our classification models. You’ll be responsible for ensuring their continued success through performance monitoring, updates, and collaboration across teams. Your work will directly impact how we leverage data to drive business decisions and optimise our systems.

What you’ll do: 

• Maintain and enhance the performance of classification models through regular updates and monitoring.
• Support updates to model architecture, training sets, and model validation.
• Build and implement monitoring capabilities to effectively track model health.
• Develop and document processes to ensure smooth and consistent operations.
• Collaborate with data science, engineering, and operational teams to align on classification needs and improvements.   

In this role you will be responsible for the credit performance of Shift’s Trade product against predefined KPIs.  The role encompasses owning credit decisioning models, portfolio management and monitoring the end-to-end operational performance of the business for factors that influence the credit performance of the product portfolio. 

• Own the credit performance of Shift’s Trade product from origination through to recovery ensuring the portfolio grows in line with Shift’s expectations of credit loss. This will involve taking ownership of origination models, customer account monitoring and analysis for of platform and processes for factors that are influencing credit performance. 

• Provide recommendations for changes to the models, credit policy and underwriting guidelines.  

• Serve as a member of the Trade management team, responsible for reporting on the credit performance and its influencing factors to the broader group  

• Ensure portfolio is optimised by ensuring exposure to low risk grade customers is increase whilst reduced to those that deteriorate . 

• Provide performance reporting to 2nd Line Risk responding appropriately to any queries 

Are you an innovative product manager with a passion for incubating new ideas and driving them to market? Shift is looking for a Product Manager to spearhead the launch of new products and manage their growth until they reach scale. As part of our dynamic team, you'll have the opportunity to bring fresh products to life, test market hypotheses, and help shape the future of our product offerings.

What you'll do: 

• Manage 2-3 new products simultaneously, overseeing all stages of the product lifecycle from market research to scaling.
• Identify and define new target markets and serviceable segments for product opportunities.
• Develop a strong market thesis, clearly articulating what Shift can offer SMEs that current solutions don’t.
• Design initial product concepts and organisational structures to maximize the chances of success while managing acceptable levels of risk.
• Translate product ideas into detailed, actionable requirements, ensuring smooth execution from concept to market launch.
• Coordinate necessary organisational changes (e.g., hiring, team expansion, systems updates) to support product launches and ensure the right resources are in place.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to execute on the product vision, driving alignment between product, design, development, and operations.
• Iterate quickly on product features and design to achieve Product-Market Fit, testing and refining the product based on customer feedback.
• Continuously improve the product, incorporating insights from customer usage, market trends, and competitor analysis to optimize the market fit.
• Make data-driven decisions on whether to scale the product as a core offering or exit the market if the product fails to gain traction.
• Ensure regular communication with stakeholders to provide updates on progress, iterations, and strategic decisions.

As a Senior Collections Officer, you will negotiate payment plans, manage overdue accounts, assess for legal escalation, and handle financial hardship cases. You’ll also oversee accounts in liquidation or bankruptcy, address escalations, and maintain compliance with debt collection laws while collaborating with the team.

What you will be doing:

• Work directly with customers to negotiate affordable and sustainable payment arrangements that aim to bring overdue accounts back into good standing.
• Employ skip tracing techniques and tools to locate customers
• Conduct thorough reviews of accounts, analysing payment histories, previous collection efforts, and current financial status to determine the best course of action for recovery.
• Assess when accounts should be escalated to external solicitors or collection agencies for legal action. Prepare and present supporting documentation, including payment history, due diligence, and any efforts made to resolve the debt before escalation.
• Evaluate and manage financial hardship cases, conducting Statements of Financial Position and determining the best solutions for both the customer and the business.
• Handle administrative tasks related to accounts under liquidation or bankruptcy
• Be the first point of contact for escalated cases, resolving complex or sensitive customer issues with professionalism and expertise.
• Collaborate effectively with team members to provide guidance on challenging accounts.
• Maintain accurate and detailed records of customer interactions, payment plans, and legal processes. Regularly report on account statuses, escalations, and recovery progress to the Collections Manager and Head of Collections.
• Stay informed of relevant laws and regulations related to debt collection, bankruptcy, and financial hardship to ensure all actions comply with industry standards.