Product Analyst
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What Avant does
We are revolutionizing the world of lending by lowering the costs and barriers of borrowing for everyday people. At our core, we are a tech company that builds advanced technology platforms and uses custom analytics to expand access to credit. Today, our platform helps underserved consumers find fair and fast installment loans. Tomorrow we plan to use our world class technology and underwriting capabilities to launch new products and services that help people improve their financial lives.
We think we are great, but you don’t have to take our word for it. Avant has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg and Crain's Chicago Business. We have also been named one of Forbes America's Most Promising Companies and we’ve been featured on Forbes’ list of Next Billion Dollar Startups. Find out more at www.avant.com.
Who Avant is
We are nerds, passionate consumer advocates, hungry to make an impact, financial wizards who actually understand the fine print, data junkies, and a place where you can wear a baseball hat, a suit or both at the same time.
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner.
Cool office and amazing benefits? Yeah… we have those - just ask us.
Whoever you are, you are welcome here; come join us.
Job Description
Let’s get to business. Avant is looking for a new Product Analyst to join the team in Chicago.
The Product team is revolutionizing access to credit by innovative mathematical models, and we bring that data-driven analytics approach to the entire customer experience. As part of our Product team, you will leverage our fast growing structured and unstructured dataset to better understand our customers. Your projects could range from improving the customer experience on our web and mobile applications to designing and implementing new underwriting rules.
You will be responsible for:
- Making the right data available, reviewing our current customer and credit data, and find useful and interesting ways to aggregate and integrate with other sources
- Deciding what/how to measure – using the data to develop KPIs and determine how to visualize and monitor in an automated fashion
- Driving change through analysis – tackling tough questions from business and technical teams and summarizing your findings in a clear and actionable fashion for key stakeholders, including C-level executives
- Collaborating with other business units – including Engineering, Risk, Marketing, and Business Development – on new initiatives, project requests, prioritization and delivery
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in quantitative field like mathematics, statistics, engineering, or computer science, or relevant experience with data analysis
- Proficiency with Excel or a similar analytical tool
- A quantitative and analytics orientation to decision making
- Ability and interest in developing familiarity in new software languages and analytical tools, where applicable
Preferred Qualifications
- Knowledge of SQL, Python and/or R
- Experience with web/mobile product analytics or financial services / risk management
- High level of inquisitiveness, initiative, and critical thinking
- Proven ability to solve challenging problems while meeting tight deadlines
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and dynamic environment
If you are interested in the Product Analyst position and meet the above requirements, please apply today.
Thank you,
Jay Camper
Accounting, Finance, Credit and Risk Search
LaSalle Network
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Avant provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Avant complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
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