Business Intelligence Associate Avant
Chicago, IL

Job Description

Avant is a high growth financial technology company, dedicated to lowering the barriers of borrowing for all consumers. Since 2012, Avant has secured more than $4 billion in funding and connected customers to over $5 billion through 800,000 transactions and counting. Through big data and machine learning, Avant's mission is to provide better access to responsible financial products. Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com, for more information.

Job Description

As an Analyst on the Business Intelligence team, you will be a resource for internal clients that have business intelligence and reporting needs. You will work to turn data into critical information and knowledge that the business can use to make sound decisions. You will work with the business to design and document dashboards, alerts and reports. You may also help educate and train your clients to use data as an analytical tool, displaying the information in new forms and content for the purpose of analysis and option exploration.

Why You are a fit for Avant

* Bachelor's Degree in an analytical field (ex. engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics, finance, etc.)
* 3+ year in a reporting, analytics, or other data intensive role
* Must possess knowledge of SQL programming (any dialect)
* Proven ability to analyze large datasets and translate findings logically
* Professional experience with a Business Intelligence tool such as Tableau, Looker, etc.
* Familiarity with additional programming languages such as Python, Ruby, R, etc.
* Able to balance multiple priorities

Why Avant is a fit for you:

At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:

We value, support, and help each other grow

We are committed to active inclusion and diversity

We are transparent and believe the best idea wins

We succeed when our customers succeed

We get sh!t done… responsibly

And we keep it fun!

We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.