Job Description
NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our NinjaEdge brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and thoroughly test changes to the customer acquisition and underwriting decision engines to optimize origination volume and loan performance
- Write and maintain a suite of unit and regression test cases to ensure the accuracy of changes to the customer acquisition and underwriting decision engines
- Monitor performance of the decision engines
- Establish decision performance metrics and develop automated reporting and alerting using SQL and Python
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement marketing or underwriting strategy changes, monitor releases, and perform impact analysis
- Communicate concise and actionable business strategy recommendations to senior management
Ideal Candidate Will Have:
- Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., math, statistics, finance, economics, engineering, or other quantitative fields)
- 4+ years of professional experience as a Business Analyst or QA
- 2+ years of experience working with python and SQL for data analysis in a professional setting
- Working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring, as well as familiarity with a variety of databases
- Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with key attention to detail
- Ability to work effectively while managing multiple projects with tight deadlines, understand the project requirements with minimal guidance, follow through to completion
Additional Pluses:
- Experience working with specialty finance or FinTech
- Advanced degree in quantitative discipline (e.g., math, statistics, analytics, quantitative finance, engineering, or other quantitative fields)
- Experience with BI reporting tools
- Experience with and understanding of software testing methodologies
Benefits:
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Flexible, remote work
- Fun, fast-paced work environment
- Dynamic start-up culture
- Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
- Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
- Equal opportunity employer
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
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