Business Analyst

About the Role:

• As a Business Analyst, you will play a pivotal role in guiding the strategic direction of our products and ensuring their successful implementation. You will conduct comprehensive market research, assist in product development, perform user research, stay abreast of compliance requirements, document business processes, and manage various business projects. This position requires strong analytical skills, excellent communication, and the ability to work collaboratively across multiple teams

Responsibilities:

• Preparing final analysis reports for the stakeholders to understand the data-analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts and trends.
• Developing and maintaining databases, and data systems – reorganizing data in a readable format.
• Using automated tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources.
• Extensively using PostgreSQL and MySQL to extract the required data from the databases.
• Influence, monitor, and assess impacts to Family Capital Funding’s portfolio as a result of pricing, product, acquisition strategy, underwriting policy, fraud detection, and portfolio monitoring and collections.
• Create predictive early detection credit deterioration capabilities using internal and external performance data.
• Investigate, create, implement and validate various risk and financial forecasts using complex data including cohort and time series analysis of loan balances, revenue performance, net income performance, portfolio dynamics, etc. and ensure an enterprise wide consistency in estimations.
• Interface with Acquisition, Pricing, Product, Marketing, Finance, and Operations teams to help build relationships, set goals and track operations performance, providing an actionable feedback loop as it relates to portfolio performance across key Family Capital Funding metrics.
• Ensure sound credit control by taking a pro-active approach to risk management within the risk guidelines of Family Capital Funding
• Demonstrate governance, control and risk management behaviors in alignment with Family Capital Funding policies and practices. Document all new processes per Enterprise policy.
• Assist with developing and enhancing credit structuring/packaging and risk assessment capabilities to identify and maintain good business opportunities with new and existing clients.
• Perform detailed analysis and interpret information to make recommendations to Senior Management on critical strategies including non-standard and ad-hoc requests as determined by management.
• Ensure the timely and effective communication of forecasting results & variance drivers; anticipating potential needs in an effort to establish and maintain good working relationships with key business stakeholders

Requirements:

• Undergraduate degree in Economics, Engineering, or Mathematics.
• 3-5 years of related experience in a Business Analytics, Finance, Strategy, or Product functional area
• Excellent business judgment and risk assessment as demonstrated by previous work or academic experience in an analytic role related to economic or business analysis
• Strong Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills as demonstrated by previous experience in developing creative solutions to business strategy, technological, and operational problems
• Excellent SQL and analytic programming skills (Power BI, Tableau, QuickSight, Quickview), willingness to work closely with large data sets and get into the details with business processes
• Knowledge and experience with statistical concepts and financial analytics (break-even analysis, NPV estimation, downside risk assessment)
• Desire to help small businesses by eliminating inefficiencies and excessive costs in the lending business

What we offer?

• A positive, get-things-done workplace
• A dynamic, constantly evolving space (change is par for the course – important you are comfortable with this)
• An inclusive environment that ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions.
• Ability to learn cutting edge concepts and innovation in an agile start-up environment with a global scale
• Access to 5000+ training courses accessible anytime/anywhere to support your growth and development (Corporate with top learning partners like Harvard, Coursera, Udacity

About us:

• At PayU, we are a global fintech investor and our vision is to build a world without financial borders where everyone can prosper. We give people in high growth markets the financial services and products they need to thrive. Our expertise in 18+ high-growth markets enables us to extend the reach of financial services. This drives everything we do, from investing in technology entrepreneurs to offering credit to underserved individuals, to helping merchants buy, sell, and operate online. Being part of Prosus, one of the largest technology investors in the world, gives us the presence and expertise to make a real impact. Find out more at www.payu.com Our Commitment to Building A Diverse and Inclusive Workforce As a global and multi-cultural organization with varied ethnicities thriving across locations, we realize that our responsibility towards fulfilling the D&I commitment is huge. Therefore, we continuously strive to create a diverse, inclusive, and safe environment, for all our people, communities, and customers. Our leaders are committed to create an inclusive work culture which enables transparency, flexibility, and unbiased attention to every PayUneer so they can succeed, irrespective of gender, color, or personal faith. An environment where every person feels they belong, that they are listened to, and where they are empowered to speak up. At PayU we have zero tolerance towards any form of prejudice whether a specific race, ethnicity, or of persons with disabilities, or the LGBTQ communities