Business Analyst - Strategic Finance

Summary

Koalafi provides flexible lease-to-own financing that helps consumers make important purchases over time while supporting retailers across the country. The company is hiring a Financial Data Analyst to support forecasting, portfolio analytics, and capital markets activities, including building models, reporting, and analyses that inform strategic and funding decisions.

Responsibilities

• Build merchant- and product-level unit economics and net cash flow analysis to inform pricing, growth, and capital allocation decisions
• Leverage SQL and large operational datasets to build data models, dashboards (e.g., Tableau, Snowsight), and self-serve reporting
• Support monthly financial review materials and ad-hoc analyses of executive questions
• Monitor competitor and market performance and synthesize implications for the business
• Support quarterly Outlook forecasts and the annual budget and plan, spanning originations, portfolio performance, and profitability
• Build and maintain components of the corporate forecasting model, including portfolio performance analysis across payment behavior, delinquency roll rates, and charge-offs
• Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to support strategic decisions and stress-test liquidity positions
• Analyze variances versus budget and outlook, translating drivers into clear narratives for senior leadership
• Support the VP of Capital Markets in managing Koalafi’s asset-backed debt facilities, including covenant compliance monitoring, borrowing base reporting, and analyses supporting draws and repayments
• Help prepare investor and lender communications, portfolio analyses, and materials for investor meetings
• Develop credit performance forecasts (e.g., delinquency, prepayment behavior) to inform funding strategy and capital planning
• Research capital markets trends, funding innovations, and peer strategies
• Partner with Risk, Accounting, Sales, and Operations teams to align forecasts, metrics, and reporting logic
• Improve internal processes, automate workflows, and leverage modern tooling (including AI) to increase the speed and accuracy of analysis

Skills

• * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a quantitative field
• * 2 - 5 years of experience in data/business analytics, FP&A, strategic finance, capital markets, investment banking, or financial services analytics
• * Expertise in writing SQL for data analysis, metric reporting/tracking, and creating datasets
• * Experience working with large, complex datasets to tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems
• * Curious about the "why" behind the numbers digging into data and independently following the evidence to identify root causes and actionable insights
• * Confident supporting multiple senior stakeholders and prioritizing across competing workstreams
• * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis into concise takeaways
• * Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with ambiguous problems and evolving priorities
• * Experience in consumer finance, particularly subprime or non-prime lending
• * Foundational knowledge of asset-backed lending, securitization, and debt capital markets
• * Python experience for financial analysis and forecasting
• * Demonstrated experience using BI tools (e.g., Tableau) to build dashboards and track KPIs
• * Experience applying AI tools to accelerate analysis and reporting

Qualifications

Must Haves

• * Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Business, Engineering, or a quantitative field
• * 2 - 5 years of experience in data/business analytics, FP&A, strategic finance, capital markets, investment banking, or financial services analytics
• * Expertise in writing SQL for data analysis, metric reporting/tracking, and creating datasets
• * Experience working with large, complex datasets to tackle ambiguous, open-ended problems
• * Curious about the "why" behind the numbers digging into data and independently following the evidence to identify root causes and actionable insights
• * Confident supporting multiple senior stakeholders and prioritizing across competing workstreams
• * Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complex analysis into concise takeaways
• * Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with ambiguous problems and evolving priorities

Nice to Haves

• * Experience in consumer finance, particularly subprime or non-prime lending
• * Foundational knowledge of asset-backed lending, securitization, and debt capital markets
• * Python experience for financial analysis and forecasting
• * Demonstrated experience using BI tools (e.g., Tableau) to build dashboards and track KPIs
• * Experience applying AI tools to accelerate analysis and reporting

Benefits

• Eligible to participate in company bonus plan.
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
• 20 PTO days + 11 paid holidays
• 401(k) retirement with company matching
• Student Loan & Tuition Reimbursement
• Commuter assistance
• Parental leave (maternal + paternal)
• Inclusion and Associate Engagement Programs