ForwardLine is a fast-growing fintech company dedicated to providing simple, fast, and affordable financing to America’s Main Street businesses. An innovator in the industry since 2003, we are currently implementing an aggressive national growth strategy.

Want to be part of a team where your work has a direct impact on the economic decisions of the company? Are you interested in working in an environment that promotes data-driven decisions, creativity, and innovation? The Product Analyst works directly on several aspects of the core lending business – sales and marketing strategy analysis, determining underwriting criteria at Originations and later in the customer’s lifecycle, measuring policy and execution effectiveness, and much more. It is a dynamic role that can touch all parts of the business, with high visibility and interaction with the executive team. If you are a go-getter who wants to blend analytical chops with real-world execution, apply today.

Key Responsibilities

• Use data to understand new ways of finding impactful insights from limited data sets and develop recommendations
• Design experiments and use various testing and control strategies for sales, underwriting, and operations
• Measure, monitor, and analyze historical trends and external factors related to loan performance, policy effectiveness, sales strategy effectiveness, and more
• Develop ongoing business intelligence reports through a variety of methods, including SQL, excel, business intelligence tools, and more
• Work with credit bureaus and alternative data vendors to evaluate new data sources
• Work with management to prioritize business and information needs
• Collaborate with cross-functional business partners on new initiatives, project requests, prioritization and delivery
• Communicate strategies/proposals/solutions to key stakeholders

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in related field (STEM preferred)
• 1+ years experience preferred in financial services (investment or retail banking), management consulting, tech start-up (preferably fintech), or similarly rigorous work environment
• Experienced with data tools such as SQL, R, Python, or similar
• Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with key attention to detail
• High level of inquisitiveness, initiative and critical thinking
• Proven ability to effectively communicate with all levels of staff and management
• Adaptability and flexibility to changing environment; and comfortable working in a dynamic, high volume, fast-paced environment

What you get from us:

• Health, dental, vision, 401k
• Paid vacation and sick time
• A dynamic, team-oriented office environment
• Paid holidays and flexible work schedule
• Rewards, recognition, company events, and other fun stuff

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