Octane® is revolutionizing recreational purchases by delivering a seamless, end-to-end digital buying experience. We connect people with their passions by combining cutting-edge technology and innovative risk strategies to make lifestyle purchases - like powersports vehicles, RVs, and OPE - fast, easy, and accessible.
Octane adds value throughout the customer journey: inspiring enthusiasts with our editorial brands, including Cycle World® and UTV Driver®, instantly prequalifying consumers for financing online, routing customers to dealerships for an easy closing, and supporting customers throughout their loan with superior loan servicing.
Founded in 2014, we’re a company with 550+ employees and over 30 OEM and 4,000 dealer partners.
As a Senior Associate on the newly formed captive lending team, you will be joining-in on the ground floor of Octane’s newest business unit. This function is mission critical to our success as we continue to build deeper enterprise relationships with our large dealer group and OEM partners. In your work at Octane you will develop models and scenario analysis to estimate portfolio performance for our captive lending partnerships. Specifically, you will forecast the economics for novel loss sharing and participation structures, and coordinate closely with our capital markets team to model the impact of ABS issuances on our programs. You will also assist with developing financial reporting materials and profitability analysis for both internal and external stakeholders. To be successful in the role, you will need to be comfortable with a high degree of autonomy, and be excited by the prospect of bringing new deal structures to life. You will also need a high level of detail orientation to operationalize the models you build with our capital markets, financial operations, legal, and credit teams. This is a high growth role that will report into the Senior Vice President of Captive Lending.
Responsibilities
- Develop financial models and scenario analysis to support discussions with OEMs and dealership groups
- Build financial reporting for partners to track monthly fund flows and distributions
- Collaborate with financial operations to develop a consistent invoicing process for the program
- Develop pitch materials in conjunction with the sales team
- Assist with partner Q/A on transactions
- Coordinate with the finance team on all ABS structuring assumptions for captive partnerships
- Check that transactions and monthly reporting are executed correctly, collaborating with our financial operations, product, and technology teams to do so
- Support profitability tracking and market analysis
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Business or similar discipline or equivalent relevant experience strongly preferred
- Minimum 7+ years of financial modeling experience at a consumer lender or investment bank
- Capital markets transaction experience
- Strong analytical skills and experience with Excel
- Familiarity with building models from scratch
- Willingness to constantly learn and iterate
- Scrappy working style, undeterred by limited resources when solving problems
- Strong cross-functional coordinator
Compensation: The role described above offers a base salary of $120,000 to $140,000. Your offer will be based on the alignment of your qualifications with the requirements of the job, location and internal equity. In addition to the above-mentioned salary, Total Rewards include a corporate bonus program, stock option package, and benefits as outlined below.
Benefits:
- Robust Health Care Plans (Medical, Dental & Vision)
- Generous Parental Leave
- Flexible Time-Off (FTO)
- Retirement Plan (401k) with company match!
- Educational Assistance/Tuition Reimbursement up to $3K/year
- Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D)
- Short Term / Long Term Disability
- Robust Ancillary benefits including accident insurance, hospital insurance, etc.
- Wellhub (Gympass) wellness benefit
- Powersports Safety Benefit
Octane Lending is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, or any other protected status with respect to recruitment, hiring, promotion and other terms and conditions of employment.
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What We Do
Our Story
Octane was founded in 2014 to make financing powersports fast and easy.
Octane offers instant financing to fuel your lifestyle. We’re passionate about fast and fair lending, so we built the Octane Platform to enable instant financing for as many people as possible. And because we’re quicker and simpler than other lending platforms, we’re growing fast. Octane reaches millions of enthusiasts through editorial brands like Cycle World and UTV Driver and helps consumers buy their favorite products by prequalifying them on dealer and OEM websites. Join us in our mission to connect people with their passion.
Instant Finance Offers
Octane Prequal expands markets by providing personalized, real rates and payments. We give dealers and consumers tools to compare and understand what they can afford, even without perfect credit.
Soft-Pull, Impact-Free Credit Technology
We feel strongly about not impacting potential customers’ credit scores, so we built a technology that lets shoppers browse vehicles and rates without the damaging impact of hard credit pulls.
Robust Digital Tooling for Dealers
Our Dealer Platform provides flexibility and financing options for dealers. Octane enables serving more customers faster with an instant, fully digital experience, shaving hours off deal times. Octane increases sales and customer satisfaction.
Why Work With Us
We’re a diverse team of innovators determined to give our customers the best possible experience. Information is shared transparently, enabling cross-functional collaboration. We’re a performance based culture where accomplishments are both celebrated and rewarded, always looking for new talent to help us develop our industry-leading products.
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