Vacancies at Branch

Job Overview

• Reporting to the Servicing & Collections Manager, you are part of a team that interacts with borrowers and collection agencies analyzing data sets and uncovering the trends to use in making an informed decision within our Collections team.

Responsibilities

• Use the various statistical tools to interpret data sets, focusing on agencies’ collection trends and patterns to derive useful daily, weekly, and monthly insights to improve collections performance.
• Proactively analyze the effectiveness of our servicing and collection efforts, including collection and repayment trends, and suggest improvements.
• Create and maintain various daily, weekly, and monthly dashboards to accurately track collection performance.
• Manage outsourcing list generation, redistribution, and recall from the agencies.
• Ensure that debt collection companies follow strict guidelines with regard to Branch standards.
• Reply to any repayment/collection emails from customers and agencies.
• Generate invoicing data for the debt collection companies and reconcile all invoices received. 
• Collaborate with other teams and help with needed analysis or reports. 

Qualifications

• Business/ Statistics/ Computer Science Degree or their equivalent
• Excellent command of Excel and SQL TSQL/PLSQL (any DB MSSQL, Oracle, Teradata)
• Proficient at writing optimized queries on large volumes of data
• Proficient at writing reports and presentations to explain findings. 
• You are highly entrepreneurial. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise. You’ve started and/or contributed to projects you’re passionate about.
• You are a great collaborator. You know that startups are a team sport. You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions.
• This position is currently open to Kenyan citizens only

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• As a software engineering intern, you will work closely with experienced engineers at Branch and make significant contributions to our products and code base for 4-6 months. You will brainstorm, design, code, debug, and ship features serving our millions of customers while picking up skills necessary for your career.

Here are some things you’ll do

• Build out functionality for existing and new product lines and platforms such as Lending, Investments, Wallet, Payments, KYC, Customer lifecycle management, etc., for the Android platform.
• Integrate with various third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms.

Minimum Requirements

• You are a recent graduate or awaiting graduation
• Have some experience building native Android applications that are more than just toy projects. Applications with real users or an open-source project would be a great plus.
• You have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, Android SDK, and a strong understanding of app architecture.
• You should be able to use Android Studio, including the Android SDK, easily.
• Functioning knowledge of the general mobile landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies.
• Know your way through various flavors of Unix and commonly used command line utilities.
• Proficiency with at least one mainstream language, like Java or Kotlin.
• You are highly entrepreneurial. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise. You’ve started and/or contributed to projects you’re passionate about.
• You are a great collaborator and communicator. You know that startups are a team sport. You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions.
• You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company, working with teammates from all over the world, and learning.