About Financial Innovation for Impact

Financial Innovation for Impact (Fii) is an international, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the advancement of scalable, sustainable, and evidence-based financial and regulatory innovation. 

We work with academic institutions, digital finance ecosystem partners, and other stakeholders to create knowledge and apply data-driven insights to inform the development of fintech and the decision-making of central banks, securities regulators, and other financial authorities. 

Fii generates research, develops digital tools, and delivers capacity building at scale through technical assistance programmes to benefit financially excluded, marginalised, and disadvantaged populations.  

Fii was spun out of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) and incorporated in the United Kingdom in 2023. CCAF is a research centre at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. CCAF’s mission is to create and transfer knowledge addressing emergent gaps relating to technology-enabled financial innovation, and to support evidence-based decision making by market participants, regulators, and related stakeholders. 

Fii achieves its mission through a symbiotic collaboration with CCAF as one of its Principal Collaborators, and leveraging a global network of expertise, academic relationships and data science capabilities to deliver impact in countries that we work in.  

About the Cambridge SupTech Lab

The Cambridge SupTech Lab partners with financial authorities, technology firms and data scientists to craft solutions addressing the emergent gaps between the speed of digitalisation of financial services and the speed at which public agencies can innovate.

As an initiative of the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance (CCAF) at the University of Cambridge Judge Business School, the Cambridge SupTech Lab accelerates the digital transformation of financial supervision through the creation of supervisory technology (SupTech) applications that enable greater financial stability, integrity, protection of consumers and more scalable, sustainable, and responsible delivery of financial services.

This is achieved through a combination of:

- Empirical research and the development of a shared body of knowledge

- Co-creation of a scalable digital toolkit

- Provision of education, training, peer learning and technical assistance.

Your Role 

We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Analyst Intern (Data and Insights) to oversee the coordination, implementation, and successful delivery of projects related to the SupTech Launchpad and Digital Tools initiatives. As the Analyst, you will work with the Cambridge SupTech Lab team supporting the digital analysis and data management of the growing suite of products within the Lab’s digital toolkit, which each serve a global user base of financial supervisors, private sector vendors, and researchers.

More specifically, this role will encompass the category of “Intelligence Tools” that serve to provide insights into the growing SupTech ecosystem, and the key stakeholders driving and benefiting from that growth.

Responsibilities 

• Conduct administrative management of the existing set of digital tools falling under the “intelligence” pillar, namely the SupTech Vendor Database, SupTech Solutions Tracker, Open Data Library, Open Code Repository

• Hold responsibility for the accuracy and timeliness of data underlying these tools, including via active and continuous desk research, solicitation of inputs from the core team, engagement in relevant events, etc.

• Deliver highly valuable product analytics and reporting to extend richer understanding of the tools’ users and tools’ performances.

• Assist with development and maintenance of data schema and data sources for these tools, and study data and analyze trends to answer critical business and product questions.

• Engage with the entities listed in the tools (e.g. vendors, financial authorities) as necessary, to ensure accuracy and utility of the tool.

• Coordinate with the product management and software development team(s) to develop roadmaps, identify areas of improvement, drive improvement efforts of existing tools and introduction of new tools (e.g. Pulse)

• Coordinate and support interns and other staff, and incorporate design/usability inputs, feedback, marketing, and outreach.

Requirements and qualifications 

Essential Characteristics 

• Experience in administrative management of digital tools.

• Analytical skills, including product instrumentation and frameworks (e.g. pirate metrics); demonstrated ability to cut through noisy data to find strong signals.

• Excellent written and oral communication, and organizational abilities. This includes a commitment to the Lab’s core principles of demonstrating empathy first, then transparency, to unlock creativity.

• Fluent or native English speaker

• Driven and committed, demonstrating initiative, self-motivation, and eagerness to familiarize with new concepts.

• Excellent time management and planning skills with a commitment to deliver and being held accountable.

• Ability to work independently as well as working as a team player within interdisciplinary groups on collaborative projects.

Desirable 

• Experience in fintech, financial services regulation or supervision, content analysis, data curation, or data science or consulting.

• Masters or PhD with a background preferably in business, design, entrepreneurship, data science, computer science or engineering, or social sciences.

• Direct experience of working with/for a tool for financial regulators/central banks/relevant authorities.

• Strong writing and communication skills (English)

• Able to organize ideas logically and effectively, while clearly communicating those that are interesting and important to specific underlying research-related topics.

• Comfort in exploring data and impact measurement goals and assessing product performance actuals against these projections.

Candidates need to succeed in technical skills, but also need to embody soft skills to achieve long-term success at Cambridge SupTech Lab:

• Emotional intelligence, communication & empathy – How is your ability to collaborate effectively with others and work in teams, build relationships, share ideas, and manage conflict?

• Creativity & problem-solving skills – Are you an analytical and critical thinker? Can you find creative solutions to problems?

• Adaptability & flexibility – Our working environment and culture requires you to be agile and adaptable to succeed in this role. Are these your qualities?

What We Offer

• An internship and a team with a purpose. This is a chance to work on actual challenges in the financial sector that greatly affect our economies and society as a whole, and to have a real impact using data and tech to transform the public sector.

• True commitment to innovation and to break new ground in this field.

• Exposure to leading thinkers, researchers, and solution creators in the financial and tech space, and in the academic world as well.

• Opportunities to frame evidence-based discussions in a rapidly evolving niche industry.

• Opportunities to develop and lead a growth area within the policy and tech field.

• Significant professional growth potential.

• Competitive compensation.

• Flexible work schedule.

How to apply

If you are interested in this role, please send your CV and cover letter to suptech-lab-jobs@jbs.cam.ac.uk