Portfolio Manager – Underwriting

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🌐 Brazil, Argentina – Remote

🇧🇷 Brazil – Remote 🇦🇷 Argentina – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📋 Underwriter

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1 - 10 employees

Founded 2023

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Healthcare • Logistics

Marathon Talent is a recruiting and talent strategy firm that helps companies hire top bilingual professionals from Latin America quickly. They provide end-to-end recruitment, fractional people and talent strategy, market research and salary studies, and advisory/mentorship services—powered by a network of 10,000+ professionals and flexible pricing (success fee, flat fee, or monthly retainer). Marathon embeds with client teams to solve hiring, compensation, culture, and org design challenges for startups and growing companies, with a focus on building bilingual LATAM teams and improving growth through better talent foundations.

📋 Description

• Own monitoring of the credit portfolio, including vintages, losses, originations, NPL by cohort, and profitability • Evaluate and underwrite high-ticket merchant credit facilities at scale, including tickets of USD 100K–200K and above • Define and track business metrics covering loss, yield/profitability, portfolio construction, and portfolio health • Extract, structure, and analyze portfolio data independently using SQL • Apply statistical reasoning to portfolio questions • Partner closely with the business team and handle client interaction • Generate findings and transform them into presentations for a larger audience • Automate monitoring KPIs for the portfolio • Own the credit portfolio and develop a quantitative relationship with the business • Mitigate risks and detect patterns in larger datasets

🎯 Requirements

• Approximately 7 years of experience in credit, lending, credit risk, business analytics, or a lending institution • Background in a fintech, payment processor, POS provider, or bank with real lending/credit exposure • Hands-on underwriting experience, ideally with large/high-ticket merchant credit • Ability to work at scale through mass evaluation rather than manual case-by-case review • Strong data analysis skills using SQL and/or Python • Statistical and data literacy, including comfort with statistics, data analysis, and model interpretation fundamentals • Comfort using AI tools is a plus • Ability to thrive in a dynamic, startup-style environment • Prior experience working with US or LatAm teams across time zones and cultures is a strong plus • Corporate or B2B cards experience is a bonus, especially underwriting corporate cards with high limits such as USD 1M+ • Traditional or corporate backgrounds, including large banks, are welcome when credit/lending experience and cultural fit are present

🏖️ Benefits

• The chance to join a high-impact, mission-driven fintech • Ownership and impact in a fast-paced, growth-oriented startup • Cross-functional collaboration with exceptional teams • Exposure to complex regulatory challenges and innovation in embedded finance • Eligible team members have the opportunity to participate in R2’s Phantom Share Program, a performance-based incentive aligned with the company’s long-term success and value creation

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