Research Analyst (Part- Time)

dv01 is lifting the curtain on the largest financial market in the world: structured finance. The $16+ trillion market is the backbone of everyday activities that empower financial freedom, from consolidating credit card debt and refinancing student loans, to buying a home and starting a small business.

dv01's data analytics platform brings unparalleled transparency into investment performance and risk for lenders and Wall Street investors in structured products. As a data-first company, we wrangle critical loan data and build modern analytical tools that enable strategic decision-making for responsible lending. In a nutshell, we're helping prevent a repeat of the 2008 global financial crisis by offering the data and tools required to make smarter, data-driven decisions resulting in a safer world for all of us.

More than 400 of the largest financial institutions use dv01 for our coverage of over 75 million loans spanning mortgages, personal loans, auto, buy-now-pay-later programs, small business, and student loans. dv01 continues to expand coverage of new markets, adding loans monthly, and developing new technologies for the structured products universe.

To get a better idea of what a year at dv01 looks like, check out our 2021 Year in Review page here: https://dv01.co/year-in-review/2021/ If that looks like fun to you, get in touch because we'd love to hear from you.

We are looking for a Research Analyst (Part - Time) up to 15 hrs weekly to join our Fixed-Income Research efforts. It's a unique and dynamic role, full of opportunity to create new ideas, shape industry thinking, develop client relationships and help shape dv01's mortgage, consumer unsecured, and ESG market presence. The role offers flexibility and presents a unique opportunity to utilize your financial acumen in a start-up capacity while expanding your knowledge base in the latest technology.

You Will:

• Work with unique, proprietary data and analytics to develop unheralded new research content, trading strategies and market insights - that will be distributed and built into our platform
• Partner with our VP of Research to generate written research for client consumption
• Construct and publish new mortgage, consumer unsecured, and ESG insights
• Develop an understanding of market dynamics regarding ESG products, in both mortgages and other consumer credit products
• Be responsible for debugging and improving existing code, creating new functions to extract performance data, and programmatically create charts/info for reports.
• Hone your understanding of financial technology and data engineering

You Have:

• Experience with R and SQL to perform data analysis.
• Basic data engineering experience, familiarity with how to load data into a SQL database
• You have experience working with financial data. Experience working with loan-level servicing data and securitizations is preferable, but not required.
• An understanding of market dynamics, existing analytical frameworks
• High energy, self-motivated, creative and organized
• You love the intricate details of a thorough analysis, but also stay aware of the bigger picture while operating across multiple threads of work. You're able to communicate your findings and opinions internally, as well as in external publications.

dv01 is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants and employees will receive consideration for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship, veteran status, membership in the uniformed services, disability, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.