Quantitative Analyst

At Affirm, we exist for the moments that matter—giving people a clear, predictable way to pay over time, with no hidden fees, no surprises, and no tradeoffs on what matters most.

About the Capital Team 

The Capital team manages the financial foundation that supports Affirm’s lending and innovation. We lead the funding, liquidity, and risk management strategy across capital markets, treasury, deal structuring, analytics, and bank partnerships. The team secures efficient funding while supporting sustainable business growth. We balance cost, flexibility, and risk to ensure Affirm’s financial resilience through all economic cycles. By optimizing capital structure and managing liquidity, we help build a scalable and resilient financial platform.

We’re looking for a smart, driven individual to join our Quantitative Markets team. The team is responsible for structuring and pricing Affirm’s debt funding deals, developing platforms and tools for optimizing funding strategies, and building models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans. The ideal candidate will have experience in structuring asset-backed transactions, working with rating agencies, and building quantitative models. Given the cross-functional nature of the role, the ideal candidate should have strong interpersonal and communication skills.

What You’ll Do

• Work closely with the Capital Markets team to evaluate, structure and price consumer asset-backed transactions

• Develop and enhance capital structuring and pricing models tailored to Affirm’s consumer loan portfolio to enable efficient deal execution

• Build quantitative models to analyze and predict the performance of Affirm’s consumer loans

• Provide insights on capital markets deals to cross-functional teams for more optimal and efficient funding strategy and merchant pricing

• Partner cross-functionally with our Capital Markets, Treasury, Merchant Pricing, Credit, Commercial, Product and Engineering teams to evaluate funding, product, and business decisions

What We Look For

• 2+ years of relevant experience structuring asset-backed transactions, forecasting consumer loan performance, and/or building quantitative models

• Experience with industry-standard tools such as Intex/Bloomberg and working with accountants, rating agencies, and internal/external partners

• Experience with SQL, Python, or other scripting languages

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, and ability to collaborate and influence across different teams in the organization

• A proactive leader that can seek out new opportunities, drive projects, navigate ambiguity and develop creative solutions with minimal guidance