AVP - Strategy & Product - FinTech Startup - IIM/XLRI/FMS/MDI

If you are looking for a career that will unlock new opportunities, join the trailblazing Fintech company and experience the possibilities!!

Our client is an innovative Fintech company that is revolutionizing the business of short term finance. The company is an online lending startup that is driven by an app-enabled technology platform to solve the funding challenges of SMEs by offering quick-turnaround, paperless business loans without collateral. It counts over 2 million small businesses across 18 cities and towns as its customers. Its founders are IIT and ISB alumni with deep experience in the fintech industry, from earlier working with organizations like Axis Bank, Aditya Birla Group, Fractal Analytics and Housing.com. It has raised funds of Rs. 100 Crore from finance industry stalwarts and is growing by leaps and bounds.

As the Assistant Vice President - Strategy and Product, you will help develop, refine and implement overall company strategy in collaboration with Founders.

What you will do:

- Conducting competition analysis on new and traditional lenders

- Identifying target sectors for further partnership and working with Credit Team to evaluate risk

- Researching areas for expansion, acquisition targets and other strategic opportunities

- Conducting research and development of innovative Financial Products for SMEs in different industry segments

- Performing a detailed study of different sectors as part of strategic growth of the organization

- Performing pilot experiments of innovative products to check feasibility

- Preparing project plan and implementing to ensure smooth process flow

- Working with BD, Sales and Marketing teams to help with product rollout and customer education initiatives

- Creating partnership marketing plan for new and existing products, etc.

- Helping on the training of the company's sales/credit representatives on details of new products

- Doing comprehensive research on new innovations in Indian & Global Lending space

- Exploring different financial changes like GST, UPI etc and understanding the implications of each to the company's internal & external processes

- Suggesting innovations relevant to the organization and presenting the business case

- Managing End-to- end implementation of special projects

- Driving the development of platforms and tools to empower frontline capability to capture emerging opportunities by new digital propositions

What you need to know/have:

- MBA from top-tier institutes with 4-7 years of experience

- Experience in Financial Products / working with Startups is a great plus

- Out of the Box thinking and Never say no attitude

- Visionary, with ability to translate in to actionable roadmap

- Proven negotiation and sales skills, strong communication and presentation skills

- Excellent Microsoft Powerpoint skills

- Analytical bent of mind & strong judgmental attributes