Business Analyst at Lendable Marketplace

The ideal candidate is someone with exceptional finance skills, and a deep passion for the truth. If you are the type of person that stays up late doing analysis before a big meeting so that you are the most prepared person in the room, this could be a great fit!

Lendable is a technology driven financial marketplacethat connects non-banking financial institutions to foreign investors. They are a team of finance experts, data scientists, and technologists who make receivable financing easier in developing markets. Lendable is aiming to build out a diverse set of Alternative Lenders who want to securitize portfolios to achieve growth. Using their proprietary Risk Engine and Standard Structure, Lendable aims to provide $1bn in financing to East African borrowers by 2020.

Responsibilities:

• Run the Alternative Lender verification process where analysis and tasks ranging from in-depth operational analysis, assessment of Alternative Lenders credit underwriting standards, financial and solvency modeling to managing the receipt of all documentation throughout the process and more.
• Assist in completion of all investor-facing marketing and legal documentation.
• Manage the subsequent, abridged, verification process for repeat transactions with existing Alternative Lenders
• Responsible for certain aspects of monitoring of Alternative Lenders portfolio during the funding period.
• Work as part of the Lendable Labs team providing data analytics and credit services to their Alternative Lenders
• This role will go by the title “Credit Officer” internally.

Does this sound like you?

• 3+ years as a Financial Analyst or Associate at an East African financial services institution, particularly with experience in credit analysis for lending.
• Advanced financial modeling skills.
• Ability to run multiple verification processes in tandem.
• Experience interacting with clients and managing information transfer.
• Experience in producing simple and understandable analytical products.
• Experience in working with a wide cross section of team members on collaborative efforts.

Nice to have

• Accredited accountant
• Experience doing due diligence on microfinance or banking institutions

Personal Traits

• Proactive in identifying key issues during the verification process in addition to proposing solutions to the deal lead
• Relentlessly open communicator 

• Unquestioned honesty and integrity 

• A constant drive to learn 

• Enjoys tackling tough, large problems 

• The ability to laugh under stress