Intern/Volunteer, Financial Analyst

Position: Intern/Volunteer, Financial Analyst
Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Volunteer, full-time
Term: 3 months
Next Start Date: as soon as possible

The Company...
Founded in 2005, Kiva is on a roll! Featured in Forbes, Inc., Time, CNN, Fox (to name just a few) & most recently on TV's Good Morning America, Kiva's mission is to alleviate world poverty. We're the world's first person-to-person micro-lending website, empowering individuals to lend directly to unique entrepreneurs around the globe. To make this happen, Kiva partners with existing expert microfinance institutions.

Kiva provides a data-rich, transparent lending platform. We are constantly working to make the system more transparent to show how money flows throughout the entire cycle, & what effect it has on the people & institutions that lend, borrow, & manage it along the way. Our technology enables one-to-one interpersonal connections & lending at the lowest possible cost.

Job Description:

Kiva is looking for a motivated volunteer to work with our CFO and Accounting Manager to analyze the "loan funds" account, inform projections, and evaluate our reconciliation methodology. For this project, you will gain an understanding of the fund flows at Kiva, improve upon our framework for daily reconciliation of the funds, and analyze lender trends.

Core Tasks:

• Understanding the flow of funds — Incoming funds from lenders, outgoing funds to partners, flow of funds through our proprietary accounting system
• Loan Funds Reconciliation Model — Evaluate and improve upon our system for daily reconciliation of all transactions in Kiva’s loan funds account
• Analyze Lender Trends — analyze our lender data to inform revenue projections

Ideal Core Skills and Experience:

• Basic Accounting
• Experience with database systems and modeling
• Knowledge of MySQL
• Ability to work independently in a flexible work environment

Benefits

• Casual work environment
• Opportunity to join the team of the world's first online person-to-person lending platform
• References gladly given for successful participants

If interested...

• Send email to iwanttovolunteer@kiva.org including the subject line "Loan Funds Analyst"
• Include resume and brief cover letter explaining why you are interested and qualified
• Due to the high numbers of applicants for this position, we regret that we can only respond to candidates that we would like to interview.