Inside Sales Associate

As an entry level Inside Sales Associate, you will be part of a fast-paced energetic sales floor working with business owners across a wide variety of industries and geographies to understand Fora Financials’ product offerings that can address their financing needs. You will go through a Sales and Development Training program to learn how to generate sales as the initial point of contact with our customer base while also learning how to use a consultative sales approach and active listening skills to identify the most appropriate financing solution available.

A Day in the Life of an Inside Sales Associate:

• Serve as the initial point of contact with the small business community, speaking with business owners and their representatives to align their needs for capital with the appropriate financing option(s)available
• You will maintain and manage an active pipeline of inbound leads (i.e., no cold calling), communicating with merchants throughout the day to gather information and utilizing Salesforce to organize and update those interactions
• You will collaborate with a team of experienced sales leaders, learning and evolving a core set of sales strategies and techniques through ongoing training and development
• Career opportunity - Be willing to start at the beginning, work hard, learn from the ground up and within 6-12 months, be able to facilitate the end-to-end sales process from prospecting to contracting and closing
   

Job Perks:

• Highly competitive compensation plan including a $47,500 base salary + commission (based on performance, group average approx. $2,000/month), and additional incentives
• High performers eligible to be promoted to a Capital Specialist at the end of your first year or beginning of second year with an enhanced base salary plus commission. Capital Specialist who reaches targets can earn $100K+ in salary and commission in their first year.
• Weekly and monthly team and individual contests offering performance bonuses 
• Director led trainings, development programs and e-learnings
• A friendly, fun, yet ambitious office culture with frequent team building and social events, including happy hours, quarterly top performers dinners, inter-departmental lunch and learns, and fiercely competitive ping pong matches 
• Opportunity for advancement resulting in additional responsibilities and higher earning potential
• Daily breakfast, snacks and weekly lunch provided onsite
• Hybrid working model offering employees the option to work from home one day a week

Requirements:

• No previous sales experience required. Fora Financial is known for quality training and support
• Demonstrate high integrity, a positive attitude, maturity, and a willingness to learn
• Desire to grow and be coached by a team of experienced sales professionals
• Strong time management, active listening skills and capacity to ask probing questions
• Ability to work in a fast-paced team environment and thrive under pressure
• Desire to be financially successful with the work ethic that matches
• Results-driven, self-motivated, persistent, articulate, and tenacious
• Comfortable conducting business over the phone and a strong communicator

About Fora Financial: 

Fora Financial is a technology enabled, leading provider of flexible financing to small and medium sized businesses. Since our inception in 2008, we have supported more than 55,000 merchants nationwide with over $4 billion of capital used for a variety of purposes, from funding everyday operating expenses to managing cash flow gaps to facilitating business expansion, and much more. Leveraging our proprietary technology, Fora Financial is able to deliver capital to our customers via a streamlined and simple process that can be completed in as little as 24 hours, compared with the weeks or even months it often takes for a business to receive a bank loan. 

Over the past seventeen years, Fora Financial has grown from two founders in a small Manhattan workspace to a company of over 150 employees. Fora Financial prides itself on being a partner-centric organization, offering a customized funding approach, collaborating with our small-business customers to understand their needs in a dynamic and ever-changing economic environment. 

Why Fora Financial?   

• Highly Competitive Base Salary and Commission Plans
• Comprehensive Product and Industry Training with a Market Leader     
• Small Team Sizes   
• Opportunity for Advancement
• Fun Learning