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Job Title:    Product Analyst Eligibility (Fresher Jobs) 

Organisation: M-KOPA

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About the Company:

The scale and impact of our work is massive. M-KOPA is a fast-growing Fin Tech company offering millions of underbanked customers across Africa access to life-enhancing products and services. From our roots as the pioneer in pay-as-you-go “PayGo’” solar energy for off grid homes, we have grown into one of the most advanced connected asset financing platforms in the world, empowering a broad range of customers to achieve progress in their lives.

Job Summary:   We are looking for an Eligibility Product Analyst to help drive M-KOPA’s mission of building transformative lifetime financial partnerships with our customers.

Working on a team, you will determine M-KOPA’s loan eligibility criteria and develop our loan offers and pricing, to ensure that we are offering loans that customers want and can afford while also achieving our business growth objectives.

This role offers the opportunity to drive significant customer and business impact. You will be a member of a small team with the big responsibility of continuously improving M-KOPA’s loan offers and eligibility criteria, in order to drive growth while managing credit losses and margins. You’ll work cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, other analysts, growth managers, and commercial stakeholders across multiple countries.

About Us

We foster a low-ego environment where diversity, innovation, and collaboration drive both commercial growth and social impact. Our team values psychological safety and takes a discovery-first approach to problem solving. You’ll be empowered to make data-driven decisions and clear cases for prioritisation of solutions in a domain that you have a high degree of ownership over.

We are looking for someone who loves analysing complex data and solving challenging, ambiguous data problems — if that sounds fun to you, you might be a fit!

For Remote roles:

This is a fully remote role, you would be working within the following time zone (UTC -1 / UTC+3) with a diverse group of other employees working remotely from locations such as UK, Europe and Africa.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

In this role, you would be responsible for:

• Analysing M-KOPA’s repayments data and other data to continuously improve our loan eligibility criteria
• Developing new loan offers and pricing based on customer demand and credit analysis
• Monitoring the credit performance of your loans to identify where we need to adjust eligibility criteria and/or pricing
• Testing the predictiveness of new data sets for the purposes of eligibility criteria
• Testing new types of loans to understand customer demand and credit performance
• Working with engineers to implement changes to our eligibility criteria
• Working with data scientists to leverage machine learning models as part of loan eligibility decisions

Qualifications, Skills and Experience:  Your application should demonstrate:

• Several years in roles with significant analysis components
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to conduct your own analysis of unstructured data
• Ability to write your own SQL queries and source your own data sets
• Proven ability in solving ambiguous / high-level analytical problems
• Strong data communication skills — written, oral, and visual
• Ability to work with diverse, distributed teams across multiple countries
• Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills
• (Nice to have) Experience with data science models

How to Apply:

If you are ready to make a difference and drive financial excellence in a dynamic and innovative environment, we want to hear from you!

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