Equity Analyst, Legal Operations
SimpleClosure
Credit Underwriting Analyst
Mercury
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • California, New York, Washington
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JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- As a Credit Underwriter, you will be joining a team of lending experts with experience spanning unsecured cards to secured commercial credit. You will help shape our Working Capital loan product designed for eCommerce companies with a vision to extend to all small businesses. You will work directly with prospective borrowers to assess creditworthiness and structure creative lending solutions to support their growth. You will also partner with sales and product teams to innovate the go to market process, underwriting, and portfolio management needs of the rapidly scaling loan program.
- As part of the journey, we would expect you to:
- Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to summarize the strengths and risks presented in the application
- Lead diligence calls with new customers, when necessary, and help build strong relationships with existing customers
- Structure, price, and propose loan terms that balance the borrower’s capacity to repay and Mercury’s risk posture
- Monitor the ongoing repayment risk of existing loans, restructure delinquencies, collect on past due accounts
- Partner in refinement of credit policy, processes and procedures
- Work cross functionally with Sales, Product, Engineering, Data Science and Design teams to improve the customer experience
- Some things that might make you successful in a role like this:
- Have 2+ years of experience with financial analysis and interpreting financial performance or assessing risk exposure
- Have an understanding and excitement for the opportunity to work directly with founders and executives from early-stage startups and e-commerce companies
- Have an ability and desire to dig into numbers and derive meaningful insights and action
- Have an eye for detail and an analytical mindset
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field is a plus!
Requirements
- Have 2+ years of experience with financial analysis and interpreting financial performance or assessing risk exposure
- Have an understanding and excitement for the opportunity to work directly with founders and executives from early-stage startups and e-commerce companies
- Have an ability and desire to dig into numbers and derive meaningful insights and action
- Have an eye for detail and an analytical mindset
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or a related field is a plus!
