Analyst II, Strategic Insights

Affirm; Canada; Remote; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the fintech space is seeking an analytics professional to join their Key & Enterprise Analytics team. This role emphasizes data-driven decision-making to support merchant engagement and enhance revenue performance through comprehensive analyses. The ideal candidate will have solid analytical and problem-solving skills, along with the ability to craft actionable insights.

Benefits

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Competitive vacation and holiday schedules

Employee stock purchase plan

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in an analytically-driven role.
• Track record of successfully driving projects from end to end.
• Strong working knowledge of SQL and data visualization tools.

Responsibilities

• Optimize decisions and execution with analyses.
• Create business cases and insights for merchant engagement.
• Define KPIs and performance benchmarks for analytics solutions.

Skills

Analytical skills

Problem-solving skills

Interpersonal skills

SQL

Data visualization

Job description

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.

We’re looking for intelligent, driven professionals to join our Key & Enterprise Analytics team. This client-facing team is responsible for supporting and growing our largest merchants with our Client Success teams, supporting Sales teams in creating business cases, and creating scalable, reporting and analyses.

The ideal candidate will have strong analytical and problem solving skills, and have the ability to craft comprehensive narratives for both internal and external audiences of all levels. In addition to analytical rigor, the ideal candidate has strong interpersonal skills to work within the organization and with clients to drive forward recommendations.

What You'll Do

Optimize decisions and execution with analyses

Partner with our Client Success, Sales, and Partnerships teams as the data SME for respective Revenue segments

Create business cases, insights, and dashboards as well as handle experiments to engage Affirm’s external merchant base; demonstrating Affirm’s value proposition and product performance

Create internal analyses to assess Revenue performance, drive recommendations, and inform critical decisions; using insights to serve segment strategy and execution

Standardize common use cases, provide the analytics infrastructure, and automate analyses and dashboards to scale decisions and execution within Revenue and with top external merchants

Own comprehensive analytics solution

Define KPIs, performance benchmarks, and methodologies, including identifying and working with unstructured and structured data sources (in-house and third-party) to enable solutions and generate actionable insights

Provide project and analytics guidance to a cross-functional team, acting as the analytics point of contact

Propose, monitor, and contextualize experiment design and execution to drive optimizations of Affirm’s GTM efforts, empirically quantify the value of Affirm to our prospective merchants, and upsell enhanced offers to existing merchants

What We Look For

Passion and drive to disrupt both the retail and lending industry for the better

A desire to use data to drive business optimizations and enough curiosity to dig in deep to find the right data to drive impact

3+ years of experience in an analytically-driven role (consulting, finance, analytics, etc.)

Track record of successfully driving projects from end to end (from building strategy to implementation

Strong working knowledge of SQL, data visualization tools (e.g. Sigma, Looker, Tableau). Basic understanding or a demonstrated aptitude to learn Python is a plus

Ability to create structure in ambiguous situations, such as aligning stakeholders, or choosing the most impactful data to drive decisions

Enough laziness to find a faster way to do your least favorite tasks

Humility and a team player - you go out of your way to help teammates

Base Pay Grade - I

Equity Grade - 3

Employees new to Affirm typically come in at the start of the pay range. Affirm focuses on providing a simple and transparent pay structure which is based on a variety of factors, including location, experience and job-related skills.

Base pay is part of a total compensation package that may include monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending, and benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents). In addition, the employees may be eligible for equity rewards offered by Affirm Holdings, Inc. (parent company).

CAN base pay range per year: $90,000 - $130,000

Affirm is proud to be a remote-first company! The majority of our roles are remote and you can work almost anywhere within the country of employment. Affirmers in proximal roles have the flexibility to work remotely, but will occasionally be required to work out of their assigned Affirm office. A limited number of roles remain office-based due to the nature of their job responsibilities.

We’re extremely proud to offer competitive benefits that are anchored to our core value of people come first. Some key highlights of our benefits package include:

• 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

We believe It’s On Us to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

[For U.S. positions that could be performed in Los Angeles or San Francisco] Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance and Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, Affirm will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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