Vice President, Strategy & Analytics, Office of the CEO

About the role

Kafene is a point-of-sale leasing platform that helps retailers offer flexible purchase options through lease-to-own agreements. Founded with over $500 million in originations, Kafene serves customers who may not qualify for traditional credit, driving increased conversions on big-ticket items like furniture, appliances, and electronics.

Responsibilities

• Take ambiguous questions from the CEO and turn them into structured investigations: define the hypothesis, pull the data yourself, test it, and develop a clear narrative.
• Build and maintain the reporting the CEO needs to see the business clearly (originations, decisioning, funding, delinquency/DPD, early-payoff, cash-on-cash and collection curves, cohort and vintage behavior, repeat vs. new customer performance, merchant and store performance).
• Initially, focus on building a suite of portfolio risk reports (delinquency, charge-off, vintage, and cohort performance) that give the CEO a real-time view of how the book is performing.
• Trace anomalies to their root causes—segment by vintage, channel, merchant, score band, and decisioning change until you can explain what moved and why.
• Reconcile your numbers against what the functional teams report; when they differ, explain the delta.
• Synthesize findings into a clear narrative a busy CEO can act on, backed by data he can trust.

Requirements

• A combination of quantitative rigor and clearly communicated analysis— you need to be able to describe the takeaways of the data you're presenting.
• Excellent judgement and an ability to escalate and flag what you don’t know.
• You thrive as a party of one—you want proximity to hard problems, not a team to manage or a function to build.

Qualifications

• Likely backgrounds: strategic finance or biz-ops at a lending or fintech company; PE or private credit analyst who codes; data analyst or scientist with consumer lending experience who writes well; ex-consulting followed by a hands-on, data-heavy operating role.
• Strong working fluency in consumer credit and lending mechanics: vintages, first-payment default, delinquency curves, cash-on-cash, cohort and repeat-customer dynamics; lease-to-own or specialty consumer finance experience is a strong plus.

Skills

• Quantitative rigor and clearly communicated analysis.
• Excellent judgement and ability to escalate and flag what you don’t know.
• Strong background in strategic finance or biz-ops at a lending or fintech company.
• Strong working fluency in consumer credit and lending mechanics.

Benefits

• Healthcare: We cover 80–90% of medical, dental, and vision insurance costs, including coverage for your spouse, children, and other dependents.
• Retailer retirement benefits: Begin planning for your future from day one with our 401k plan.
• Paid Time Off: Flexible paid time off starting from your first day of employment.

Pay

$200,000-300,000 base salary

Schedule

Full-time