Brandon Ellingson
Director of Analytical Finance @OppFi
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Analytical Finance @OppFi
Directed the development of company analytical talent and assets to provide the C-Suite with unprecedented insights into critical company drivers and financial • Coordinated the development of the company’s first profitability model, enabling the company to better predict new loan profitability and optimize customer pricing to increase originations and profitability • Overseeing the company wide development of its first functional data layer, which provide consistent, reliable, accessible, and documented data to all areas of the organization. Ultimately enabling accurate reporting and forecasting to drive business strategy • Designed and implemented the functional data layers for Finance, empowering leadership to understand portfolio health and make informed decisions concerning the direction of the company • Planned and coordinated the cross functional development of a unified operations data and reporting structure, providing previously unavailable key metrics to the CEO and COO, leading to major changes in operations strategy • Directed the redesign of all financial tools to become significantly more efficient, accurate, and repeatable, greatly reducing the time to complete Financial activities and the amount of rework • Created the first statistical based loss forecasting model, resulting in a 2x increase in loss forecasting accuracy as well as providing higher accuracy earlier in the life of vintages • Appointed to oversee Model Risk Management for the whole company, with the goal to greatly improve model development processes
EDUCATION
Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Finance, General
University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering
SKILLS
ABOUT BRANDON ELLINGSON
I’ve spent over 15 years mastering the art of converting raw data into actionable…
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