HEAD OF CREDIT RESUME EXAMPLE

Published: Apr 23, 2025 - The Head of Credit ensures effective credit risk fulfilment, accurate impairment forecasting, and regulatory compliance across all markets. This role drives continuous improvement through data analysis and stakeholder communication. The head enhances risk processes and supports strategic business goals.

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1. Head of Credit, BlueRock Financial Group, Tampa, FL

Job Summary: 

  • Looking for an experienced leader to join the Credit Risk team to manage unsecured lending products within the Cards business 
  • Own credit strategy development, execution, and loss plan for both personal loan and installment lending
  • Work closely with the product, pricing, and fintech provider to identify opportunities to grow while operating in an established Risk Appetite
  • Responsible for coming up with ideas, capability to influence, and execute with speed in an agile fintech environment
  • Owner of credit management and Net loss plan for unsecured lending products, including day-to-day activities related to credit risk
  • Responsible for Acquisition underwriting strategy, including assessment, optimization, opportunity identification, and validation within established Risk appetite
  • Use of internal and external data to enhance acquisition approval/ decline and loan amount strategies in a test/control discipline
  • Improve test and learn strategy discipline, and conduct monthly reviews with senior management to proactively identify Risks and opportunities for the products
  • Work with Collection, ACOE, modelling, fraud, and other cross-functional groups to ensure unsecured products are supported to meet business objectives
  • Evaluate opportunities for growth in Installment lending with business development, product, pricing and finance teams
  • Collaborate with 2nd LOD and other control partners to ensure strategies meet control partner requirements and regulatory standards
  • Support all Credit Risk audit and regulatory exams for Unsecured Lending and have oversight on issue remediation
  • Perform first occurrence validation (FOV) of strategies to ensure accurate implementation, and timely strategy validation exercises to ensure performance meets expectations
  • Responsible for coaching, mentoring and development of the team


Skills on Resume: 

  • Credit Strategy (Hard Skills)  
  • Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)  
  • Data Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)  
  • Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)  
  • Agile Execution (Soft Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Collaboration (Soft Skills)  
  • Underwriting Optimization (Hard Skills)

2. Head of Credit, CedarStone Capital Partners, Mesa, AZ

Job Summary: 

  • Due diligence analysis of credit cases and mezzanine financing
  • Operational assessment of companies as well as identifying, describing and estimating the risks affecting the business
  • Lead, manage and develop a team of 4 Credit Analysts
  • Prepare customer meetings, customer initiation, and acquisitions for new projects
  • Evaluation of the brief analysis for new and existing projects
  • Bond documentation and calculation, Fact sheet, Collateral structure, decision templates (presentation of the customer, project, risk assessment and summary)
  • Negotiate conditions that include the customer's documentation after a legal review of the bond structure
  • Sign of loan documentation and direct reporting to the CEO
  • Examine securities and control of the use of funds in cooperation with the notary's office
  • Withdrawal requirements on a 3-month cycle review of the securities
  • Coordinate and negotiate with the different stakeholders of the project
  • Participate in regular board meetings and create an agenda
  • Delivery of an independent and objective risk and control assessment to ensure risk is identified and managed according to the Risk Appetite


Skills on Resume: 

  • Due Diligence (Hard Skills)  
  • Risk Evaluation (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Project Coordination (Soft Skills)  
  • Bond Structuring (Hard Skills)  
  • Legal Negotiation (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)  
  • Board Reporting (Hard Skills)

3. Head of Credit, Horizon Commercial Bank, Toledo, OH

Job Summary: 

  • Lead a team of finance professionals, developing their skills, building their capability and coaching them to embody Dr Martens' culture
  • Have ultimate accountability for credit management across EMEA
  • Post and allocation of receivables, cash collection, chargeback, payment reconciliation, KPI reporting, managing overdue debt, cash receipt forecasting and determination of credit limits
  • Be the subject matter expert and go-to person in the team for technical expertise and a point of escalation
  • Support the team in being value-driven, maximising their collection efforts
  • Take the lead in establishing regular reporting that can be shared with the EMEA and Finance leadership teams
  • Maintain strong cash flows through efficient collections, which are measured by aging analysis and days sales outstanding (DSO)
  • Control bad debt exposure and expenses through the direct management of credit terms and collections 
  • Partner closely with the wider credit team so they are clear which accounts require escalation
  • Lead the presentation of credit proposal, information and intelligence to the Credit Committee
  • Provide credit leadership and management functions to the existing credit risk professionals in the regional credit department
  • Lead initiatives for the development of credit control, monitoring, policies, procedures, framework and other credit functions
  • Drive and lead the credit pre-screening, credit assessment and credit approval processes


Skills on Resume: 

  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)  
  • Credit Management (Hard Skills)  
  • Cash Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Technical Expertise (Hard Skills)  
  • Collections Strategy (Hard Skills)  
  • Risk Control (Hard Skills)  
  • Policy Development (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)

4. Head of Credit, Redwood Lending Solutions, Sacramento, CA

Job Summary: 

  • Design and develop new credit, pricing, limit limit-setting policies for the Core Point-of-Sale product
  • Work with Risk Engineering and Machine Learning teams to continue to improve underwriting and modeling frameworks
  • Work with Product teams on innovative ways could change the product to improve unit economics
  • Develop a robust valuation and monitoring infrastructure
  • Leverage this valuation ownership to come up with insights on how to think about the economics of the business
  • Forecast losses and delinquencies and work with Finance on allowance policies
  • Monitor macroeconomic trends impacting loan performance and drive adjustments to underwriting and marketing strategies to mitigate risk
  • Develop and grow a high-performing team of analysts on how to manage credit for the business
  • Work cross-functionally with various teams - Applied ML, Product, Engineering, Fraud, Capital, Pricing, Legal/Compliance and Commercial teams
  • Lead International Bank and handle all Credit Analysis matters including due diligence and credit risk analysis of a portfolio of loan opportunities internationally
  • Carry out financial analysis or financial modelling for transactional matters including stress testing 
  • Review financial statements and write credit reports to review credit risk analysis 
  • Work with internal and external stakeholders to advise on Credit matters 


Skills on Resume: 

  • Policy Design (Hard Skills)  
  • Model Improvement (Hard Skills)  
  • Valuation Monitoring (Hard Skills)  
  • Loss Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Macroeconomic Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Development (Soft Skills)  
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration (Soft Skills)  
  • Credit Analysis (Hard Skills)

5. Head of Credit, Summit Ridge Finance, Madison, WI

Job Summary: 

  • Responsible for delivering upon credit objectives, with outstanding results in respect of collections, delivery and risk
  • Set objectives and streamline processes to ensure efficiency 
  • Lead and develop the team to promote a confident and results-driven, goal-oriented department
  • Take responsibility for the collection process in ways of reviewing and implementing strategies to manage company risk
  • Hold regular 1-2-1's with team members for ledger reviews, identifying areas and ways of improvement, then tracking and monitoring progress
  • Analysis of team performance and ensuring resources are allocated efficiently, and ensuring continuity of operations
  • Attend and present credit and risk performance at regular meetings with the senior management team including but not limited to the credit committee and working capital groups
  • Act as the point of escalation relating to the credit function, and resolve account disputes to minimise aged debt and improve proficiency
  • Review financials and credit limits for significant customers with high levels of risk, as defined by own internal ranking system
  • Produce relevant information and reports for the Finance Director
  • Manage credit insurance applications and relationships with credit insurers
  • Work closely with key stakeholders to manage query logs and response times
  • Act as a business partner to the sales team
  • Assist with projects, month-end close and reporting
  • Develop and produce analytics, report on credit risk to ensure the business units are operating within risk appetite


Skills on Resume: 

  • Credit Objectives (Hard Skills)  
  • Process Efficiency (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Leadership (Soft Skills)  
  • Risk Strategy (Hard Skills)  
  • Performance Analysis (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Engagement (Soft Skills)  
  • Credit Reporting (Hard Skills)  
  • Dispute Resolution (Soft Skills)

6. Head of Credit, NorthBay Credit Advisors, Reno, NV

Job Summary: 

  • Deal with and respond to new non-automated invoice finance applications in a timely way and ensure high-quality lending decisions
  • Act as an escalation point for non-standard receivable financing
  • Get appropriate deal structures and ensure credit documentation to meet requirements
  • Supporting business developers in their relationships with their customers, including joining them on customer visits
  • Monitoring of all new receivable financing to ensure that the intended customer outcomes, composition and quality remain within appetite, metrics and limits
  • Ongoing development and refinement of the financing guide
  • Ownership of the dunning process
  • Review and optimise financing and collections strategies
  • Ownership of the Watchlist and associated process
  • Work closely with the Business development and collections outsourcing provider on transactions showing early warning signs
  • Act as SuRF score model owner
  • Support the modeling team on SuRF design and implementation
  • Assist with model governance and monitoring
  • Monitoring and control of the credit portfolio


Skills on Resume: 

  • Lending Decisions (Hard Skills)  
  • Receivable Financing (Hard Skills)  
  • Deal Structuring (Hard Skills)  
  • Customer Support (Soft Skills)  
  • Risk Monitoring (Hard Skills)  
  • Strategy Optimization (Hard Skills)  
  • Model Governance (Hard Skills)  
  • Portfolio Control (Hard Skills)

7. Head of Credit, OakLine Capital, Birmingham, AL

Job Summary: 

  • Be a member of the Swedish management team and chairman of the Credit Committee
  • Develop and maintain Bluestep’s Credit instructions and guidelines
  • Design and update Credit risk framework, reporting system and related policies and guidelines to drive sound control culture
  • Work closely with business lines to conduct risk assessments to identify potential risks and advise on mitigation measures
  • Develop Bluestep’s internal Risk Appetite and Risk Limits
  • Lead and support multiple projects with external and internal stakeholders
  • Drive forward improvements in credit risk management across business functions and future products
  • Responsible for the relevant outsourcing agreement
  • Ability to keep up to date and be at the forefront of any regulatory requirements and changes
  • Present credit MI, analysis and recommendations to various audiences
  • Support ad-hoc and ongoing projects to enhance Crowdz' credit processes and systems further
  • Partner with the business development team to design new products or services and constantly enhance the customer journey
  • Manage and proactively improve the quality of 1LOD credit submissions
  • Facilitating training and/or coaching, developing process and system enhancements, and initiating, reviewing and expanding on quality assurance exercises


Skills on Resume: 

  • Credit Governance (Hard Skills)  
  • Risk Framework (Hard Skills)  
  • Risk Assessment (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Regulatory Awareness (Hard Skills)  
  • Process Improvement (Hard Skills)  
  • Product Development (Soft Skills)  
  • Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)

8. Head of Credit, Bridgepoint Loan Services, Des Moines, IA

Job Summary: 

  • Report to the Board on the performance of the Underwriting and other Credit risk functions against the risk appetite
  • Review to improve overall business and monitor performance of the Underwriting policy against the credit risk appetite
  • Review and develop effective Credit Risk Management policies and procedures across Underwriting, Recoveries and Bad Debt management
  • Lead Underwriting to ensure delivery against the credit risk appetite
  • Working with the Risk and Compliance function to ensure effective quality assurance processes, which evidence compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements
  • Using high-quality and robust MI and business data to monitor business performance
  • Provide regular, clear reporting to the CEO and other stakeholders on business and team performance against business objectives
  • Use data and other information to monitor trends whilst working with the senior management team to refine and develop products, services and improve business performance
  • Lead Underwriting change management projects in support of business objectives
  • Understand technology and its application to the business, working to implement improvements
  • Work with management teams to identify and implement operational enhancements
  • Provide training, coaching and mentoring and ensure management and their staff are technically and practically competent
  • Monitor and guide staffing levels relative to service levels, business demands and quality
  • Maintain and develop own skills, knowledge and behaviours whilst maintaining awareness of industry and regulatory standards and changes


Skills on Resume: 

  • Risk Reporting (Hard Skills)  
  • Policy Development (Hard Skills)  
  • Quality Assurance (Hard Skills)  
  • Data Monitoring (Hard Skills)  
  • Change Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Tech Implementation (Hard Skills)  
  • Staff Coaching (Soft Skills)  
  • Operational Enhancement (Hard Skills)

9. Head of Credit, RiverStone Lending Corp, Little Rock, AR

Job Summary: 

  • Accountable for the strategic direction and performance of the direct Private Credit business and achievement of financial targets
  • Develop and articulate a direct Private Credit investment strategy, in consultation with portfolio/ investment management teams and in line with client demand, market trends, economic fundamentals, and investment opportunities available
  • Oversee the implementation of the investment strategy via effective investment standards and processes
  • Identify challenges and weaknesses and address these with solutions and enhancements
  • Represent HSBC Alternatives and asset management at the highest levels across the group and with all client types
  • Refine and implement data-driven credit underwriting policies and decisioning rules operated within a compliance framework
  • Manage high-performing credit decisioning teams located across multiple time zones
  • Measure, analyse and report on applicant credit profiles and suggest refinements to underwriting rules
  • Assist the Chief Risk Officer with risk management tasks
  • Ensure credit underwriting aligns with strategic direction and business needs
  • Use credit solutions to win strategic clients and partner opportunities
  • Research and keep the business informed of commercial credit industry trends and competitor positioning


Skills on Resume: 

  • Strategic Planning (Hard Skills)  
  • Investment Strategy (Hard Skills)  
  • Policy Implementation (Hard Skills)  
  • Problem Solving (Soft Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Representation (Soft Skills)  
  • Credit Underwriting (Hard Skills)  
  • Team Management (Soft Skills)  
  • Market Research (Hard Skills)

10. Head of Credit, SouthStar Finance Group, Baton Rouge, LA

Job Summary: 

  • Lead a team with responsibility for Credit Risk Fulfilment for all of the markets in which Entercard operates
  • Ensure comprehensive Credit Risk reporting for all asset segments, and an ongoing agenda of analytical reviews/initiatives to provide incremental insights
  • Ensure communication of identified risk levels, trends, and insights to stakeholders
  • Accountable for the monthly production of Impairment numbers and Impairment forecasting
  • Ensure data integrity, a robust control framework, and compliance with internal rules and external regulations/standards
  • Ensure transparent communication to stakeholders regarding
  • Impairment variance to budgets, including regular intra-month communications on month-end expectations
  • Ensure that forecasts are provided to timelines that fulfil overall business requirements
  • Drive the agenda at the entering card Impairment Committee
  • Lead the preparation of proposals for quarterly updates 
  • Impairment rates and any amendments to Impairment methodologies
  • Oversee and approve all Credit Risk inputs into stress-testing exercises and inputs into commercial business cases
  • Continuously improve Credit Risk Fulfilment process with a clear long-term vision, and keep updated regarding market developments
  • Availability of analytical tools and market developments in best-practice methodologies
  • Continuously drive excellence in the CR processes, take ownership of people development and contribute towards strategic thinking


Skills on Resume: 

  • Risk Fulfilment (Hard Skills)  
  • Impairment Forecasting (Hard Skills)  
  • Stakeholder Communication (Soft Skills)  
  • Data Integrity (Hard Skills)  
  • Regulatory Compliance (Hard Skills)  
  • Stress Testing (Hard Skills)  
  • Process Improvement (Hard Skills)  
  • People Development (Soft Skills)