Company Description:
Our client is a respected player within the revolutionary Fintech, Banking Solutions and Challenger Bank arena. Consequently, they are financially strong with a growing portfolio of Fintech products. Offering their customers financial solutions and app-only banking as an attractive alternative to the traditional high-street banks.
Job Description:
DATA SCIENTISTS REQUIRED FOR RAPIDLY EXPANDING FINTECH IN LONDON.
Basic Salary £35,000 – £60,000 (Depending on Experience), Plus Attractive Package of Benefits
Our client is looking to strengthen their expanding team, with exceptional opportunities available for individuals from a data science and analytics background, who possess direct experience in financial technology, banking or the wider FinTech world.
Ultimately, ensuring App-Only banking is available to everyone, everywhere requires the success of our stakeholders, partners and internal business units. As such, the Data Science group supports these partners by utilising the vast data set generated by our customers globally, through their daily transactions.
Furthermore, the aim is to build on innovation to produce creative solutions that have an immediate and positive impact on the business, enabling faster more accurate decision making and accelerated growth. Additionally, working as part of the overall core team you will collaborate cross-functionally with internal team and external partners to complement business vision and strategy with your analytical expertise.
Our client’s rapidly expanding organisation requires Data Scientists who are equally passionate about the opportunity to use rich data to tackle meaningful business problems. You will join one of the Data Science focus areas with an opportunity to gain broad exposure to the overall data science group.
Key Accountabilities / Responsibilities:
- You are an out-of-the-box thinker who is passionate about brainstorming innovative ways to leverage our unique data to predict, prevent and solve business problems.
- You will communicate with stakeholders to understand the challenges they face and present clear data to convince them of effective strategies and solutions.
- Applying quantitative analysis, and data mining to extract, capture and understand data to form an opinion on how to best help our clients and derive relevant insights for strategies in customer interaction and product or business growth.
- Developing visualisations to make your complex analyses accessible to a broad audience.
- Partnering with a variety of internal teams and external partners to provide comprehensive solutions.
- Finding opportunities to craft products out of analyses that are suitable for multiple clients
- Initiating A/B experiments to test solutions and expand or improve product offerings.
Desirable Attributes / Requirements:
Are you passionate about data? Are you a natural problem solver? Can you confidently take on the responsibilities described above? If so then please apply with your CV today. Ideally successful candidates should have a mix of the following qualifications:
- 2+ years experience in data-based decision-making or quantitative analysis
- Bachelor’s degree in an analytical field such as statistics, operations research, economics, computer science or many others (graduate degree is a plus)
- Experience with extracting and aggregating data from large data sets using SQL or other tools
- Competence in Excel, PowerPoint and Tableau
- Experience in understanding and analyzing data using statistical software (e.g., Python, SAS, R, Stata or others)
- Previous exposure to financial services, FinTech, credit cards or merchant analytics is a plus, but not required
- Insight and experience of applying Data Science in one or more of the following areas: Business Engagement,
Business Growth, Customer Experience & Interaction, FinCrime, Retail Engagement and Growth
Additional Information:
If you feel you have the above attributes and you could be successful in this role, please apply with your updated CV to be considered. Applications will be welcomed from candidates who can demonstrate a track record of data science, data analysis and problem solving with experience directly in FinTech or within a similar role.
Keywords:
Fintech, Challenger Bank, Banking Services, App Only Banking, Financial Technology, Banking, Data Science, Data Analytics, Big Data, Technology, Finance, Business Engagement, Business Growth, Customer Experience, Interaction, FinCrime, Retail Engagement, Growth
Reference Code:
EC/FINT/DATASC
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