Junior Risk & Analytics Analyst — Remote

Affirm; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 101,000 - 151,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care coverage

Flexible Spending Wallets

Time off

Job summary

Affirm is seeking an Analyst I in Risk & Analytics to learn consumer lending fundamentals and perform scoped analytical tasks daily. You will leverage SQL and Python to build scalable reports and partner with engineering to deploy ML and risk models.

You will work under senior analysts to monitor portfolio health, understand market trends, and translate regulatory requirements into actionable data models while collaborating across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field.
• Solid SQL and Python skills with experience building scalable reports.
• Familiarity with data visualization and statistical modeling.

Responsibilities

• Derive insights to optimize product, risk, or growth strategies across geographies.
• Monitor portfolio health by tracking performance metrics and macro trends.
• Perform technical execution with clean SQL and Python for reporting.
• Collaborate with Product, Legal, and Compliance to translate regulations into data models.
• Support cross-functional launches and market entries with data-driven readiness.
• Adopt AI tools to accelerate data mining while validating outputs.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data Visualization

Data Mining

Regulatory Concepts

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, CS, Engineering, Economics or related

Job description

Affirm is seeking an Analyst I in Risk & Analytics to learn consumer lending fundamentals and perform scoped analytical tasks daily. You will leverage SQL and Python to build scalable reports and partner with engineering to deploy ML and risk models.

You will work under senior analysts to monitor portfolio health, understand market trends, and translate regulatory requirements into actionable data models while collaborating across teams.