ZipLoan - Strategy Analyst - Office Of CEO

Strategy Analyst - Office of CEO | ZipLoan - Fintech/NBFC

About Us:

ZipLoan is building a digital bank for 8Mn+ digital-ready small and medium businesses (SMBs) with a focus on manufacturing and service sectors. By offering its customers an ever-evolving suite of products, including: Line of Credit (30-45 days rolling for working capital), Machinery BNPL at POS and Term Loans (1-3 years), it aims to penetrate the market further and expand its existing base of customers (of which c.70% are new to business loans). We have raised equity from India's leading venture capital funds such as Elevation Capital (formerly SAIF Partners) and Matrix Partners.

More at https://ziploan.in/

About the Role:

You will be responsible for the planning and monitoring strategic initiatives as well as tracking key metrics for the office of CEO. It is a highly collaborative role and provides a 360-degree view of the organization. Essentially, you will be the go-to person for major projects, solving for inter-department dependencies as well conducting extensive primary/ secondary research. The role comes with a high degree of ownership, and we need a person who can take up tasks who is willing to get involved with the mission of the organization

Key Responsibilities:

- Support Chief of Staff and CEO to drive strategic initiatives for Ziploan- including but not limited to digitization, customer experience, new growth, and cost transformation projects in the organization.

- Conduct extensive primary and secondary research to identify best practices, develop competitive insights, customer persona and latest SaaS/ fintech trends.

- Working with stakeholders to achieve objectives with required quality and timeline.

- Driving leadership meetings, taking minutes, maintaining MoMs, and taking action-items to closure.

- Efficiently drive business communication across the organisation to clearly express management's vision without any ambiguity.

- Responsible for the development of weekly/quarterly/annual strategic reports for the management as well as the business top leadership.

Location: Delhi

Reporting: Chief of Staff

Qualifications:

- Experience in Strategy/ founders teams in start-ups, front-end consulting in business growth, profit enhancement. Should ideally have worked on assessing markets on ground for new products or market entry. Must have experience in fintech space- preferably in fintech, lending space MBA. Should be ideally from a startup in fintech/tech space

- Equally comfortable going for market visits and presenting and discussing insights to stakeholders like CEO and investors, and third parties.

- A desire to understand consumer behavior and mindset of the long tail of Indian MSME market

- Understand and love technology. You see every problem from a technology lens and can look for solutions through a digital-first approach

- Comfortable working hands-on in a fast-paced start-up environment.

- Curious about metrics, execution processes and keeping an eye out for details.

- Analytical mindset and problem solving comes naturally to you.