Internship - Sales Operations

THE COMPANY

MPOWER’s borderless loans enable students from around the world to realize their full academic & career potential by attending top universities in the U.S and Canada.

As a mission-oriented FinTech / EdTech company, we move extremely fast and leverage the latest technologies, global best practices, and heavy analytics to tackle one of the biggest challenges in financial inclusion. We’re backed by over $150 million in equity capital from top global investors, which enables our fast-growth and provides our company with financial stability and a clear path to an IPO over the coming years.

Our global team is composed of ex-management consultants, financial services and technology professionals, and other experts in their respective fields. We work hard, have fun, and believe greatly in our cause. For us, MPOWER’s mission of making this mission is personal.

As a member of our team, you’ll be challenged to think quickly, act autonomously, and constantly grow, creatively in an environment where fast change and exponential growth is the norm. Ideation and implementation happens very quickly. We value feedback and emphasize personal and professional development by providing the resources you need to further your skills and grow with the company. MPOWER is committed to cultivating your strengths and curiosity and helping you make an immediate impact.

MPOWER has been named one of the Best FinTechs to work for by American Banker for 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. We pride ourselves in being a “growth company for grown-ups”, where there are no pool tables but there are great health, education, and maternity/paternity benefits instead. Our team diversity has been recognized as well; we’re one of the most diverse staff in the world in terms of nationality, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, and educational backgrounds.

T HE INTERNSHIP - Sales Operations (Bangalore, India)

The internship will require a high level of both quantitative and qualitative analysis and activities. Each intern will be responsible for leading an individual project which will be presented to the Executive team at the end of the summer and will receive mentorship from a business unit leader.

We are looking for interns who can think creatively and analytically, embrace ambiguity, and thrive in an entrepreneurial environment and have a solution-focused mindset driven by making an impact.

For interns who successfully complete our internship program there will be strong consideration for a full-time offer to join our team.

THE ROLE

Creating a scalable performance management process to measure commercial success with data
Establishing reporting and analytics for key commercial performance indicators
Conducting exploratory data analysis
Working with unstructured data to derive the business insights and presenting them to the team.
Building dashboards in Tableau

THE QUALIFICATIONS

Currently pursuing a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Business Analytics or equivalent
Strong analytical thinker who can translate data into actionable deliverables
Skilled at using BI tools like Tableau and Power BI
Knowledge of Programming languages like R, Python, VBA
Intermediate proficiency in SQL

Well-organized, detail-oriented, and ability to work well both independently and in a team environment.

Ability to move between strategic thinking and details.

A passion for financial inclusion and access to higher education is a must, as well as comfort working with a global team across multiple-time zones and sites

In addition, you should be comfortable working in a fast growth environment, meaning a small agile team, fast-evolving roles and responsibilities, variable workload and tight deadlines, a high degree of autonomy, and 80-20 everything.