Trading and Profitability Lead Analyst

About Admiral Money

Admiral Money is an exciting, new division of Admiral Group. We have the freedom and innovation of a small start up with the security of a large parent company, Admiral. 
 
Launching unsecured personal loans in June 2017, we have gone from strength to strength with two other product lines launched in more recent years – motor finance & second charge mortgages. We’re looking for people who are keen to learn, excited about getting stuck in and are ready for a challenge to help us to achieve our aim of creating a special lending business for our customers.

About the Role

We’re looking for a commercially minded Trading and Profitability Lead Analyst to join our Admiral Money team. This role is pivotal in driving performance visibility and profitability insights across our unsecured personal loans portfolio. You’ll be at the heart of our trading rhythm, ensuring we understand what’s happening in the business today—and what’s coming tomorrow.
You’ll work closely with stakeholders across Finance, Pricing, Credit Strategy and Product to deliver actionable insights, lead our profitability tracking, and support strategic decision-making. This is a fantastic opportunity for someone who thrives on data, loves solving complex problems, and wants to make a real impact.

Responsibilities

Trading:

• Lead the development and refinement of our trading process.
• Own the daily trading updates: identify trends, flag changes, track impacts, and short-term forecasts.
• Facilitate cross-functional “Trading” discussions to ensure alignment and readiness across teams to deliver on commercial targets.
• Monitor Trading performance and commercial KPIs, identifying trends and recommending strategic adjustments.
• Create and maintain trading documentation for key committees and forums.
• Own the budgeting process for the unsecured loans portfolio across submissions from multiple teams and evolving existing models into a dynamic reforecasting model.
• Drive our commercial analysis of competitors—investigate and benchmark competitors—through annual reporting to ensure viable targets and contextualise our performance.

Profitability:

• Lead on analysing the profitability of our business, modelling expected lifetime profitability from existing trends and behavioural monitoring (e.g., attrition), and using those learnings to improve our profit models.
• Own Profitability forums, facilitating cross-functional understanding and driving action-oriented improvements.
• Analyse cost allocation and coverage by new business to ensure we are making the best possible lending decisions.
• Track profit & loss emergence against assumptions and drive improvements in our assumptions.
• Monitor attrition trends and their impact on profitability.
• Develop and refine cohort profitability forecasting methodologies, with opportunities to collaborate with experienced modellers.

Lead Analyst responsibilities:

• Mentor and support analysts, fostering a culture of analytical excellence and continuous improvement.

About You

We’re looking for someone who:

• Strong analytical and commercial acumen.
• Is confident working with large datasets and financial models.
• Communicates clearly and can influence across levels.
• Is proactive, curious, and thrives in a fast-paced environment.
• Has experience in financial services, ideally in lending, pricing or finance teams.
• Finance experience, especially in a Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team, is a bonus.
• SQL and Python will be a key part of the role. A basic level is required but these can be improved on the job.

Admiral: Where You Can

We take pride in being a diverse and inclusive business. It's a place where you can Be You, and show up as you are. We’re committed to fostering a people-first culture where everyone is accepted, supported, and empowered to be brilliant. You can, Grow And Progress at a pace and direction that suits you, Make A Difference for our customers and each other, and Share in Our Future with all colleagues eligible for up to £3,600 of free shares each year after one year of service.

Everyone receives 33 days holiday (including bank holidays) when they join us, increasing the longer you stay with us, up to a maximum of 38 days (including bank holidays). You also have the option to buy or sell up to an additional five days of annual leave.

We’re proud of our people-first culture. In fact, we've been recognised as a Great Place to Work for Women, a Great Place to Work for Wellbeing, and an overall Great Place to Work for over 25 years! We’re fully committed to making sure your progression is not slowed or halted by barriers related to race, gender, age, sexuality or any of the protected characteristics.

Our fantastic benefits make sure our colleagues have a great work-life balance; You can view some of our other key benefits here.

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