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Position: Intern/Volunteer, Financial Analyst
Location: San Francisco, CA – Downtown/Mission District
Job Type: Volunteer, Full-time
Term: Three Months
Preferred Start Dates: ASAP

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.

Core Skills and Experience:
• Basic Accounting
• Experience with database systems and modeling
• Knowledge MySQL
• Ability to work independently in a flexible work environment
If you have more advanced skills, we can put those to use as well :)

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.