Consumer finance platform serving 1.8M+ customers across Australia and New Zealand
Latitude Financial operates a retail finance business across personal loans, auto loans, and credit cards, reaching 1.8 million customers through direct channels and a network of 5,500+ brokers and merchant partners. The hiring spike (13 roles in 30 days, accelerating velocity) clusters heavily in sales and finance, paired with active projects around broker training, channel expansion, and unsecured lending diversification—indicating a push to scale distribution and risk management simultaneously. Enterprise risk management, control remediation, and fraud mitigation feature prominently in their challenge backlog, suggesting rapid growth is outpacing compliance and operational maturity.
Notable leadership hires: Controls Lead, Strategic Partnership Lead
Latitude Financial is a public consumer finance business headquartered in Melbourne, serving Australia and New Zealand with loans, credit cards, and retail financing solutions. The company operates through dual distribution: direct online channels and a broker network spanning 5,500+ financial intermediaries, alongside partnerships with major retailers (Harvey Norman, JB Hi-Fi, The Good Guys) and technology brands (Samsung, Apple). With 501–1,000 employees, the business combines century-old financial services heritage with modern digital banking and point-of-sale lending. Current operational priorities center on broker channel scaling, risk framework strengthening, and expanding unsecured lending offerings.
Latitude uses Confluence, Jira, Workday, Snowflake, Power BI, SQL, Salesforce Data Cloud, Datorama, and SAS for core operations. They are adopting GitHub Copilot for development acceleration.
Latitude serves more than 1.8 million customers across Australia and New Zealand through personal loans, auto loans, credit cards, and a network of 5,500+ brokers and merchant partners.
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