Product Analyst

Job Type: Full Time
Experience: Not specified
Location: Lagos, Nairobi, London , Johannesburg, Accra, Kampala

Company: M-KOPA

About the job:

We are looking for an Eligibility Product Analyst to help drive M-KOPA’s mission of building transformative lifetime financial partnerships with our customers.
Working on a team, you will determine M-KOPA’s loan eligibility criteria and develop our loan offers and pricing, to ensure that we are offering loans that customers want and can afford while also achieving our business growth objectives.
This role offers the opportunity to drive significant customer and business impact. You will be a member of a small team with the big responsibility of continuously improving M-KOPA’s loan offers and eligibility criteria, in order to drive growth while managing credit losses and margins. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, other analysts, growth managers, and commercial stakeholders across multiple countries.

For Remote roles:

This is a fully remote role, you would be working within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3) with a diverse group of other employees working remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.

Expertise:

In this role, you would be responsible for:

Analysing M-KOPA’s repayments data and other data to continuously improve our loan eligibility criteria
Developing new loan offers and pricing based on customer demand and credit analysis
Monitoring the credit performance of your loans to identify where we need to adjust eligibility criteria and/or pricing
Testing the predictiveness of new data sets for the purposes of eligibility criteria
Testing new types of loans to understand customer demand and credit performance
Working with engineers to implement changes to our eligibility criteria
Working with data scientists to leverage machine learning models as part of loan eligibility decisions

Your application should demonstrate:

Several years in roles with significant analysis components
Strong analytical skills, including the ability to conduct your own analysis of unstructured data
Ability to write your own SQL queries and source your own data sets
Proven ability in solving ambiguous / high-level analytical problems
Strong data communication skills — written, oral, and visual
Ability to work with diverse, distributed teams across multiple countries
Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
(Nice to have) Experience with data science models

Method of Application

Interested and qualified? Go to M-KOPA on jobs.ashbyhq.com to apply