Sr. Quantitative Markets Analyst
Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly, giving consumers the flexibility to buy now and pay later without any hidden fees or compounding interest.
We’re looking for a smart, driven individual to join our Quantitative Markets team. The Quantitative Markets team is responsible for structuring and pricing Affirm’s debt funding deals, developing platforms and tools for optimizing funding strategies, and building data-driven models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans.
The ideal candidate will have experience in structuring asset-backed transactions, building quantitative models, or implementing machine learning models. Given the cross-functional nature of the role, the ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal and communication skills.
What you'll do
- Work closely with the Capital Markets team to evaluate, structure and price consumer debt financing deals
- Develop automation tools to enable more efficient pricing and modeling of future deals
- Build data-driven models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans
- Advance Affirm’s asset-liability management model to help inform optimal funding strategies
- Partner cross-functionally with our Capital Markets, Treasury, Risk, Commercial, Product and Engineering teams to evaluate funding, product, and business decisions!
What we look for
- 3+ years of relevant experience forecasting consumer loan performance, structuring asset-backed transactions, building quantitative models or implementing machine learning models
- Strong data-manipulation and model development and implementation skills using tools such as Python/R
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to collaborate and influence across different teams in the organization
- Experience developing platform models a plus
- Desire to understand the broader context of business decisions
- Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment
Location
We’re excited to announce that Affirm is now a remote-first company! This role can be located anywhere in the U.S. and Canada (with the exception of Quebec). Remote based employees may occasionally travel to an Affirm office for meetings or team building events. Our offices in San Francisco, New York City, Pittsburgh, Chicago, and Salt Lake City will remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis.
If you got to this point, we hope you're feeling excited about the job description you just read. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. We're eager to meet people that believe in Affirm's mission and can contribute to our team in a variety of ways – not just candidates who check all the boxes.
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