What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quantitative Risk Analytics Lead position at Earnest Ventures Inc?
Our mission is to make higher education accessible and affordable for everyone. We empower students with financial support and supercharge their ability to pay down their debt, so they can get on the right financial track, fast.
We build tools that help people feel in control of their financial future, including:
Private student loans - low rates, people-first service, and flexible payments.
Student loan refinancing - break free from high-interest rates or monthly payments.
Scholarships - access to thousands of scholarships to help students pay less.
Earnies are committed to helping students live their best lives, free from the stress of student debt. If you're as passionate as we are about our mission, read more below, and let's build something great together!
The Lead Quant Risk Analyst will report to the Head of Risk.
As the Lead Quant Risk Analyst, you will:
Play a pivotal role in managing and optimizing our loss modeling and underwriting, ensuring frictionless risk optimization to support our strategic goals
Define roadmap and strategy around risk modeling foundation, structure, and backbone of the modeling systems.
Lead the quant risk team and collaborate closely with analytics, data science and cross-functional teams to unlock the full potential of our risk data
Your Impact:
Set the technical direction for the team by proposing risk technologies, tools, and languages that can be used to solve business problems.
Implement and enforce data quality standards, data validation, and data governance processes to ensure data accuracy and reliability.
Support development of data transformations on SQL/DBT, advanced analytics and reporting solutions on Looker to provide actionable insights to various stakeholders.
About You:
2-3 year's experience working with Financial Systems and/or Financial Data
4-6 years of experience in designing and building risk reporting using Snowflake (or other data warehouses) and Looker (or other visualization tools)
SQL Expert
Willingness to travel to the Oakland office monthly to collaborate with other Earnies.
Even Better:
Experience in Fintech
Python Expert
Where:
This role is fully remote from anywhere within the US.
Salary : $191,000 - $216,000