Financial Planning & Analysis Associate, Avant
$70-105k
+ annual bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Merchandise Mart, Chicago)
Personal credit FinTech
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Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$70-105k
+ annual bonus
More information about location
3 days a week in office (Merchandise Mart, Chicago)
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To move financial lives forward.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s Degree in a quantitative major (Finance, Accounting, Economics, Mathematics, Engineering) or comparable experience
- 3+ years of experience in financial planning & analysis, financial modeling, consulting, investment banking or related field
- Advanced experience in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
- Experience with Hyperion Essbase, Workday Adaptive Planning or similar planning tools
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- If you’re passionate about using your financial acumen to drive business outcomes, this role offers a unique opportunity to grow your expertise, work closely with leadership, and influence our financial strategy directly
- We invite you to apply to our positions even if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed in the description
What the job involves
- Join our team as an FP&A Associate and make a real impact from day one. In this role, your analytical expertise will drive the strategic direction of the business, streamline planning and reporting, and shape decision-making through actionable insights. You’ll work alongside business leaders, guiding key financial strategies and developing processes that keep us agile and growth-focused
- Analyze Trends & Key Metrics: Dive into key performance indicators across revenue, expenses, and capital expenditures to identify impactful trends and support decision-making
- Present to Leadership: Create executive-ready presentations that effectively communicate your analyses to our executive team, investors, and board members
- Lead Financial Planning Cycles: Support and enhance critical planning cycles, including the Annual Budget, Monthly Financial Forecast, and Long-Term Financial Plan
- Build Tools for Success: Maintain and enhance our FP&A platforms and dashboards, ensuring our business leaders have the latest insights at their fingertips
- Support Strategic Cost Efficiency: Partner with cross-functional leaders to uncover cost-saving opportunities and drive operational improvements
- Develop & Refine Financial Models: Design and optimize forecasting models that increase accuracy and deliver valuable insights to guide the business forward
- Conduct Competitive Analysis: Use competitive research to inform strategy and recommend actionable initiatives
Our take
Many Americans with below average credit scores are caught in a bind: they're unable to improve their score, and simultaneously cannot access traditional loans. Avant's alternative is to offer credit options that are powered by machine learning and based upon a large database that helps to manage risk.
For its users, the company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It has issued over $8 billion in loans to date, and has also expanded its business through the acquisitions of ReadyForZero in 2015 and Zero Financial in 2021.
This expansion has enabled Avant to reach towards its goal of offering a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits. Although there are many FinTechs looking at ways to remove the barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans, this expansion to banking products should help Avant to stand out.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2022
$125m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2015
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $779m
Company benefits
- Choice of great medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- 401(k) Match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Flexible work environment
- Generous paid parental leave
- Lunch allowance (Fooda) and in-office snacks
- WFH stipends for our remote employees
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
- No meeting wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
- Summer fridays
- Fun in-office and virtual social events
- (And who doesn’t love the swag)
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Co-Founder, Chair & CEO)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in 2013. They have been Chair since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(Co-Founder & CIO)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they spent a year as a Software Engineer at CashNetUSA and Enova Financial. They founded Debteye in 2011, before starting Avant in 2013, serving first as CTO then Chief Architect, CTO again and finally CIO.
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