Quantitative Risk Analytics Lead

Summary

Join Earnest, a company dedicated to making higher education more accessible and affordable. As the Lead Quant Risk Analyst, you will play a crucial role in managing and optimizing loss modeling and underwriting, ensuring seamless risk optimization. You will define the roadmap for risk modeling and lead the quant risk team, collaborating with various departments. This fully remote position requires significant experience in financial systems, risk reporting, and data analysis using tools like Snowflake and Looker. Earnest offers a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits, and a supportive work environment.

Requirements

• 2-3 year’s experience working with Financial Systems and/or Financial Data
• 4-6 years of experience in designing and building risk reporting using Snowflake (or other data warehouses) and Looker (or other visualization tools)
• SQL Expert
• Willingness to travel to the Oakland office monthly to collaborate with other Earnies

Responsibilities

• Play a pivotal role in managing and optimizing our loss modeling and underwriting, ensuring frictionless risk optimization to support our strategic goals
• Define roadmap and strategy around risk modeling foundation, structure, and backbone of the modeling systems
• Lead the quant risk team and collaborate closely with analytics, data science and cross-functional teams to unlock the full potential of our risk data
• Set the technical direction for the team by proposing risk technologies, tools, and languages that can be used to solve business problems
• Implement and enforce data quality standards, data validation, and data governance processes to ensure data accuracy and reliability
• Support development of data transformations on SQL/DBT, advanced analytics and reporting solutions on Looker to provide actionable insights to various stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in Fintech
• Python Expert

Benefits

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Mac computers + work-from-home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• Restricted Stock Units (RSUs)
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Competitive parental leave