Lead Analyst - Portfolio Insights
Sun King
IT
Kenya
Posted on Mar 6, 2026
Job Location: Nairobi, Kenya
About the Role:
The Insights team within the Corporate Risk function plays a key role in developing and managing data-informed strategies that help manage overall risk within the Pay-As-You-Go business model. This role involves reviewing and tracking the performance of current strategies and recommending improvements that enhance outcomes. It includes designing campaigns and running parallel tests to refine current and future strategies, as well as coordinating the preparation of performance reports and updates for senior management.
About the Role:
The Insights team within the Corporate Risk function plays a key role in developing and managing data-informed strategies that help manage overall risk within the Pay-As-You-Go business model. This role involves reviewing and tracking the performance of current strategies and recommending improvements that enhance outcomes. It includes designing campaigns and running parallel tests to refine current and future strategies, as well as coordinating the preparation of performance reports and updates for senior management.
- Department
- Corporate Risk
- Employment Type
- Permanent - Full Time
- Location
- Kenya
- Workplace type
- Hybrid
What you will be expected to do:
- Review portfolio, credit, and collections performance to identify risk patterns and areas for improvement.
- Develop statistical models and testing frameworks (such as A/B testing) to improve credit policies.
- Design, track, and interpret Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) aligned with business priorities.
- Provide clear data insights to inform business planning and direction.
- Contribute to customer segmentation work and survey design to refine credit strategies.
- Monitor portfolio performance and strategic programs, identifying potential issues early to keep initiatives on track.
- Present insights to both technical and non-technical stakeholders in a clear and structured way.
- Translate complex statistical findings into practical business recommendations.
- Develop dashboards and reporting tools using Looker.
- Identify opportunities to simplify reporting and automate recurring data workflows.
- Contribute to the development of scalable data tools that improve operational efficiency.
You might be a strong candidate if you have:
- A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Science, Actuarial Science, Computer Science, Mathematics, Business Analytics, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 4+ years of experience in credit risk management roles, preferably within FinTech or modern consumer lending institutions.
- Demonstrated experience delivering data-based insights that informed business direction or program evaluation outcomes.
- Experience working in cross-functional environments with multiple stakeholders.
Technical Skills
- Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one data programming language (Python or R).
- Solid knowledge of statistical methods, regression techniques, and hypothesis testing.
- Familiarity with experimentation methods, including randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and quasi-experimental approaches.
- Experience with BI tools such as Tableau, Looker, or Power BI.
- Experience working with cloud data environments (AWS, GCP, or Azure) is an advantage.
Soft Skills
- Strong data reasoning and structured problem-solving ability.
- High attention to detail and dedication to data accuracy.
- Clear stakeholder communication skills (written and verbal).
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.
- Proactive approach with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.
What Sun King offers
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture with enthusiastic colleagues driven by the challenge of innovation and making a profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
About Sun King
Sun King is the world’s leading off-grid solar energy company, combining cutting-edge product design, fintech, and field operations to deliver energy access for the 1.8 billion people who live without an affordable and reliable electric-grid connection.
Sun King has built a new kind of energy utility: distributed, green, customer-centric, and affordable. We bring clean, reliable, decentralized energy directly into people’s lives — from solar kits that provide first-time energy access to multi-kilowatt systems that serve both off-grid users and grid-connected customers powering larger homes, schools, hospitals, farms, offices, and light manufacturing.
Already, 25 million homes and businesses rely on Sun King for electricity supply and the appliances and services it enables: lighting, televisions, fans, refrigeration, and smartphones.
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.
Sun King combines energy generation, energy-efficient appliances, installation, and financing into one seamless offering. Think of it as a distributed utility, designed for wherever energy is needed and designed to scale with its users as incomes and energy needs grow.
Sun King makes solar products affordable to low-income households and businesses via ‘pay-as-you-go’ (PAYG) purchase financing. Sun King installs solar after customers pay a small deposit. Customers then make small, manageable payments of as little as US $0.14 a day via mobile money or cash.
Instead of paying for expensive, polluting, and health-damaging kerosene for lighting or diesel for power, customers unlock savings through accessing solar power and after one to two years of payments, customers own their solar equipment outright.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
Sun King collects payments digitally through mobile money systems and its 35,000 field agents — over 1 million payments each day. To date, Sun King has extended more than $1.4 billion in PAYG loans to customers.
Sun King began by powering homes and businesses with solar systems delivered through PAYG financing. Now, we’re using the same model to make smartphones and clean cooking equipment affordable: helping households connect to the digital economy and transition from wood-based fuels to modern, sustainable alternatives.
Sun King employs 3,500 full-time staff in 14 countries, with specialties spanning product design, data science, logistics, customer service, sales, software, operations, and more — all with a passion to serve off-grid families. Sun King is committed to gender diversity in the workplace. Women represent 42% of Sun King’s workforce.
