Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Affirm is reinventing credit to make it more honest and friendly. They are seeking an Analyst II for the Risk & Analytics team to own planning and staffing for launches, build forecasting models, and partner with stakeholders to drive meaningful business impact through analytics.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain forecasting models, using time series, regression, and machine learning, to support contact forecasting, headcount and license planning, and budgeting
- Partner with stakeholders to frame planning and forecasting problems, develop supporting metrics and diagnostics, and support high-quality decisions
- Surface productivity and efficiency improvements using budget and financial performance data
- Present recommendations to leadership, drive timely decisions, and communicate clearly with cross-functional partners
- Partner with operational planning and other analytics teams to understand the business context for headcount and workforce scheduling, and get the data needed for accurate forecasts
- Stay current on the business and our changing technical environment
Skills
- Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in a quantitative field (e.g., statistics, industrial engineering, operations research) and 5+ years solving forecasting, planning, or related quantitative problems
- Strong proficiency in SQL and Python or R, and hands-on experience with a modern cloud-native data platform (e.g., Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery, or equivalent)
- Hands-on experience using AI/LLM tooling across the analytics workflow: writing, validating, and iterating on AI-generated SQL and Python, and integrating AI outputs into analyses that stakeholders trust
- Strong experience developing and validating statistical forecasting models, with disciplined approaches to performance measurement, backtesting, and robust error tracking
- Proven ability to independently structure ambiguous problems and select the appropriate analytical approach without predefined direction
- Clear, persuasive communicator with strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence senior leaders across technical and non-technical audiences
- Strong bias toward automation: treat repetitive manual work as avoidable drudgery and build durable, automated systems, delegating to machines what they can do more reliably and efficiently than humans
- High standards of humility, honesty, and ownership: you take responsibility for outcomes, invest in your own growth, and actively develop others
- Experience building optimization models using linear programming techniques (e.g., CPLEX, Gurobi) is a plus
Benefits
- Equity rewards
- Monthly stipends for health, wellness and tech spending
- Benefits (including 100% subsidized medical coverage, dental and vision for you and your dependents.)
- Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
- Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
- Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
- ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount
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