Senior FP&A Associate, Avant
$95-120k
This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus
M, T, Th in-office
3 days a week in office (Merchandise Mart, Chicago )
Personal credit FinTech
Open for applications
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$95-120k
This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus
M, T, Th in-office
3 days a week in office (Merchandise Mart, Chicago )
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To move financial lives forward.
Role
Who you are
- 3-5 years of FP&A, corporate finance, or related analytical experience
- Strong financial modeling skills - you can build from scratch or inherit someone else's model, and figure out how it works
- Experience owning a forecast process end-to-end, not just supporting one
- Instinct for documentation - you write things down, create process clarity, and leave things better than you found them
- Comfortable working with large datasets and financial systems
- High attention to detail with the ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
- Intellectually curious and self-directed - you don't need to be told what to look into next
- Financial services or fintech background preferred
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Senior Associate to join our FP&A team at a pivotal moment in the company's growth
- This role will own core forecasting and reporting responsibilities while developing deep expertise in our revenue model and financial data
- You will work closely with the FP&A team and cross-functional partners to support ongoing planning cycles and contribute to strategic finance initiatives
- This is a high-visibility role with direct exposure to senior leadership and meaningful opportunity to grow within the function
- Own and execute recurring forecasting and reporting deliverables, including monthly actuals, variance analysis, and rolling forecasts
- Develop fluency in our revenue model including underlying data sources, assumptions, and drivers, and become a reliable resource across the team
- Build and maintain financial models that support business decisions across product, operations, and executive leadership
- Prepare materials for monthly business reviews and quarterly Board presentations
- Identify opportunities to improve model efficiency, documentation, and reporting infrastructure
- Support ad hoc analytical requests from Finance leadership and business partners
- Contribute to strategic finance projects as the business evolves
- Real ownership from day one
- Exposure to a high-stakes strategic initiatives in the near term
- Opportunity to grow into a broader scope as the team and company scale
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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