Analyst I, Financial Products

We’re looking for a scrappy, highly driven, and analytically-minded professional to join the Growth Analytics - Financial Products team, focusing on Affirm’s Card & Marketplace products.

The Financial Products group under Growth Analytics is mainly responsible for understanding & driving all aspects of the Affirm’s D2C Financial Products (Card, Marketplace and Consumer Banking) to great detail, including overall economics / financials, users, merchants, and underlying financial product constructs. The team does this by building foundational data visibility, driving research, setting strategy & goals, testing, delivering analyses, and supporting the execution of plans across the portfolio.

What you'll do

• Develop business and product strategies to drive growth, profitability and a best in class customer experience with an emphasis on quantitative reasoning

• Write cases and provide insight into opportunities based on analysis through internal and external research, and a close monitoring of the unit’s performance. Continuously embed these insights into our business unit strategy and identify new opportunities for step function growth.

• Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of challenging problems using various advanced analytical and statistical techniques. 

• Analyze data to identify gaps/opportunities within product and user experience areas and provide data driven recommendations for improvement

• Build and define critical data sets, reporting, and documentation to enable analysts and cross-functional partners to answer questions efficiently, and monitor the business

• Design and analyze AB tests to understand performance of new features and products

• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders from Product, Engineering, Marketing, Finance, Sales teams to inform product decisions and influence roadmap and business unit strategy

• Own end-to-end analytics workflow, from defining success & performance metrics, forecasting, to developing scalable analytics solutions (i.e., automated dashboards, reports and presentations) to socialize and influence cross functional teams

• Provide project and analytic leadership, guidance, and mentorship on the team

What we look for

• Passion and drive to disrupt the lending and financial industry for the better

• 1+ years of experience in a business focused analytically-driven role (analytics, consulting, finance, data science, etc.)

• Ability to apply business knowledge/judgment to drive decisions and move the area forward

• Very good working knowledge of SQL and/or experience with Python or R; Project experience with AB Testing is a plus

• Familiarity with data visualization tools (e.g., Looker, Tableau and PowerBI)

• Strong written, communication, and interpersonal skills with the ability to collaborate and influence cross-functionally with both technical and non-technical audiences

• Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment

• Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks

• Humility, curiosity, and team player - you go out of your way to help teammates and are eager to learn about all aspects of the space and XFN areas

• Experience in card lending and consumer banking is preferred, with some understanding of lending mechanics and credit strategies 

Pay Grade - USA28

Employees new to Affirm or promoted into a new role, typically begin in the min to mid range.

USA Base Salary Range (CA, WA, NY, NJ, CT) per year: 

Min: $121,000

Mid: $148,300

Max: $175,500

USA Base Salary Range (all other U.S. states) per year: 

Min: $108,900

Mid: $133,400

Max: $157,900

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