Senior Underwriter
Liberis
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Description
At Liberis, our mission is to empower small and medium-sized businesses by removing finance as a friction to growth, delivering contextual, embedded financial solutions to support merchants at every stage of their business lifecycle.
The team
We are the Risk team responsible for managing the credit risk of Liberis’ portfolios, which include designing effective new strategies, managing the credit quality of our products across geographies, and providing specialist credit risk advice to the business.
The Risk team is primarily based in London, UK with colleagues in Atlanta, US and Stockholm, Sweden too and covers Risk Analytics, Decision Science and Underwriting. Our mission is to grow Liberis profitably to become the leading embedded business finance provider and we are looking for an Underwriter to join us on this journey.
Who are you?
You are an experienced underwriter who combines strong credit judgment with a practical, customer-aware approach. You are comfortable making independent decisions on complex applications, explaining your rationale, and helping others strengthen theirs. You take ownership of quality and timeliness and use your experience to improve how the team works.
Reporting to the Senior Underwriting Manager in Atlanta, you will serve as a senior individual contributor within the US Underwriting team. You will assess higher-complexity applications, act as a referral point, coach and mentor for your colleagues, and contribute thought leadership to the continued development of our US underwriting approach.
What you’ll be doing
As a Senior Underwriter, you will combine expert deal assessment with informal leadership across the team. You will make sound, balanced decisions that protect Liberis while helping small businesses access responsible finance.
- Independently assess new and repeat funding applications, using bank statements, credit bureau data, financial statements, and other relevant information to make well-supported decisions
- Exercise delegated approval authority with sound judgment, clearly documenting decision rationale and escalating applications when appropriate
- Serve as a referral and escalation point for underwriters and business stakeholders on complex, unusual, or higher-risk applications
- Coach and mentor underwriters through case discussions, side-by-side reviews, constructive feedback, and regular decision calibration
- Support onboarding and ongoing development by sharing practical underwriting knowledge, strengthening consistency, and modeling high standards
- Partner with customers and internal teams to gather information, resolve questions, and communicate underwriting decisions clearly and professionally
- Provide underwriting thought leadership by identifying portfolio trends, emerging risks, and opportunities to strengthen policies, controls, and decision quality
- Lead or support process improvements and ad-hoc analysis that improve efficiency while maintaining an appropriate balance between customer experience and risk
What we think you’ll need
The best Senior Underwriters can make decisions strategically when information is limited. They combine technical expertise with sound judgment, communicate their reasoning, and raise the capability of the people around them. Our team currently consists of several bright and talented individuals, and our next hire will further strengthen the team by not only contributing to underwriting interesting and complex deals but also by introducing fresh and experienced perspective.
- 5+ years of experience in underwriting, ideally in small-business finance or a similar lending environment
- A strong record of making independent credit decisions on complex applications and defending those decisions with clear, evidence-based reasoning
- Strong knowledge of cash-flow analysis, affordability, financial statements, credit bureau information, fraud indicators, and common small-business debt structures
- Demonstrated experience coaching or mentoring colleagues and giving constructive feedback that improves judgment and performance
- The ability to provide thought leadership, challenge existing approaches constructively, and influence decisions across teams
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain complex credit decisions to varied audiences
- Sharp attention to detail and the ability to manage competing priorities, high application volumes, and service-level expectations
- Strong Excel skills; analytical training and exposure to SQL are a plus
What happens next?
Think this sounds like the right next move for you? Or if you’re not completely confident that you fit our exact criteria, apply anyway and we can arrange a call to see if the role is fit for you. Humility is a wonderful thing, and we are interested in hearing about what you can add to Liberis!
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About this role
Liberis is building embedded finance solutions for small and medium-sized businesses, and this Senior Underwriter role sits at the center of that mission—assessing credit risk while helping merchants access responsible financing. Based in Atlanta and reporting to the Senior Underwriting Manager, you'll move beyond individual deal assessment into informal leadership, serving as the referral point for complex applications and coaching underwriters toward stronger decision-making across the US team.
The work combines technical rigor with judgment calls. You'll independently evaluate funding applications using bank statements, financial data, and credit bureau information, exercise delegated approval authority, and escalate appropriately when needed. Beyond your own portfolio, you'll mentor colleagues through case reviews and calibration discussions, identify emerging risks and policy gaps, and partner across teams to improve both underwriting consistency and customer experience. The role expects you to bring thought leadership—challenging existing approaches and driving process improvements that balance efficiency with sound risk management.
You'll need at least five years of underwriting experience, ideally in small-business lending, with a proven track record of defending complex credit decisions with clear reasoning. Strong cash-flow analysis, financial statement reading, and fraud detection skills are essential. The role also calls for genuine mentoring ability, comfort communicating credit decisions to varied audiences, and the analytical chops to manage high volumes and competing priorities. Excel proficiency is required; SQL or analytical training is valued.
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