Quantitative Analyst I

Summary

Join Affirm's Quantitative Markets team and contribute to the development and implementation of innovative financial models. You will build automation tools, optimize business processes, and create data-driven models to analyze consumer loan performance. This role requires collaboration with cross-functional teams, including Capital Markets, Treasury, Risk, Commercial, Product, and Engineering. The ideal candidate possesses strong quantitative skills, experience with Python/R, and excellent communication abilities. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package, including comprehensive health benefits, flexible spending stipends, and generous time off.

Requirements

• 1-3 years of relevant experience in technical areas (e.g. data science, data analytics, quantitative finance)
• 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
• Ability to think creatively and critically and thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic, and often ambiguous work environment
• Desire to understand the broader context of business decisions

Responsibilities

• Develop automation tools and optimize existing business processes to enable more efficient pricing and modeling of consumer debt financing deals as well as improve overall efficiency of the team
• Advance Affirm’s asset-liability management model to help inform optimal funding strategies
• Build data-driven models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans
• Partner cross-functionally with our Capital Markets, Treasury, Risk, Commercial, Product and Engineering teams to evaluate funding, product, and business decisions

Preferred Qualifications

Experience building quantitative models or implementing machine learning models is a plus

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount