Senior Financial Partnerships Specialist (Remote Ok)

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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.

The Senior Financial Partnerships Specialist is responsible for assisting these partnerships, nurturing our existing relationships and helping to structure new partnerships to help us build our products and achieve our mission. You should have some exposure to complex partnership negotiations so you can work cross-functionally to identify, structure and execute Affirm’s most strategic deals.  We value experience, intelligence, creativity and strategic thinking in addition to all of the traits necessary to represent Affirm in the payments and FinTech ecosystem.

What You'll Do

  • Assist on all deals and partnerships necessary to build and operate our business.
  • Drive end-to-end negotiations and/or deals with a small number of partners.
  • Manage and further develop our relationships with leaders and innovators in FinTech, payments, banking and data, with minimal direction from manager.
  • Develop deal models/structures, analysis, and financial models to inform decisions for business partners.
  • Support supplier onboarding, monitor requisitions and troubleshoot problems as they arise during procurement.
  • Track and forecast vendor spend for assigned partnership area.
  • Work with our Finance and Capital Markets teams to forecast and improve our key metrics through better partnerships.
  • Work with Affirm’s Legal Team on contract management and risk mitigation.

What We Look For

  • 2-3 years of experience in strategic partnerships, finance, procurement, product management. or project management
  • Ability to develop insightful financial models in Excel to inform decisions
  • Experience with multi-faceted business models, complex partnerships and contracts.
  • Able to prioritize across a large portfolio of projects and relationships to deliver the most value for Affirm
  • Organizational, cross-functional communication and project management skills.
  • Able to build trust-based relationships with colleagues and external partners.
  • Comfortable spotting areas of improvement in the business and giving and receiving feedback with team members.
  • Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to read a situation, listen, frame a conversation and pitch when necessary.
  • Experience with procurement software such as Coupa.

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.

 

Please note that visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

 

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.

 

At Affirm, "People Come First" is a core value and that’s why diversity and inclusion are vital to our priorities as an equal opportunity employer. You can read about our D&I program here and our progress thus far in our 2019 D&I report.

 

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Affirm is a remote-first company! Our brick and mortar offices remain operational and accessible for anyone to use on a voluntary basis.

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