Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Forward Financing is a financial technology company based in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to unlocking capital for small businesses across America. The Analyst role is crucial for optimizing the decision engine and involves collaboration with various teams to ensure accurate and efficient decision-making processes.
Responsibilities
- Configuration Support: Own the implementation of new process flows, rule changes, and logic updates within the third-party decision engine (e.g., Taktile)
- QA & Testing: Execute testing for new decisioning parameters and A/B tests to ensure accuracy before full deployment
- Backtesting: running historical what-if simulations using historical observations in the decision engine
- Data Integrity: Validate data flows between third-party vendors and internal core applications, ensuring stability and accuracy
- Requirements Gathering: Collaborate with business stakeholders (Pricing, Risk, etc.) to document requirements for process improvements
- Process Documentation: Help maintain documentation for business processes related to decision logic, A/B testing specifications, etc
- Technology Liaison: Work closely with the technology and engineering teams to ensure that decision engine process flows are compatible with the Company’s core apps
Skills
- Experience in an analytical and product support function, preferably in FinTech, lending, or a high-growth financial services environment
- Direct experience working with and optimizing a decision engine (e.g. Taktile, FICO Blaze, Provenir, Lendflow, GDS Link or similar complex rules/scoring engines) is required
- Strong proficiency in SQL, Python and Excel is required
- A proven ability to troubleshoot complex data issues and a willingness to learn technical systems
- Coachable, detail-oriented, and ready to engage in a high-growth environment
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field
- Familiarity with lending lifecycles (MCA, SMB, or Credit) or logic/rules engines
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Commuter benefits
- A flexible time-off policy
- Paid parental leave
- 401k match for US employees
- Wellness reimbursement
- Volunteering days
- Annual professional development budget
- Charitable donation match
- Remote-first company
- Employees are welcome to work from one of our premiere office locations
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