Data Scientist II

Summary

Join our team as a Data Scientist II and leverage your analytical skills to deliver innovative solutions that drive business success. You will be responsible for ensuring data integrity throughout the project lifecycle, from extraction and storage to manipulation, processing, and analysis. Your expertise in statistical methods will be crucial in interpreting results and providing actionable recommendations. You will develop solutions impacting various aspects of the company, including partnerships, marketing, sales, and risk management. This role requires a strong background in financial services business analytics and proficiency in various analytical tools. A Master's degree in a quantitative field is required.

Requirements

• 1+ years of work experience in the Financial Services industry focused on business analytics
• Proficiency with SQL, Python, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Strong analytical, problem solving, and critical thinking skills
• Experience with A/B testing and/or building predictive models using statistical/machine learning techniques (e.g. CART, logistic regression, linear regression, random forest, XGBoost etc.)
• Intellectual curiosity and aptitude to pick up new technical skills and domain knowledge
• Strong written and verbal communications
• Master’s degree in Data Science, Analytics Math, Physics, Engineering or related quantitative fields

Responsibilities

• Assure the integrity of project data, including data extraction, storage, manipulation, processing, and analysis
• Analyze data with standard statistical methods, interpret the results, and provide both written and verbal summaries and recommendations
• Produce solutions that will impact the Company’s bottom line within different aspects of the company, including but not limited to: Partnerships, marketing, sales, pricing, credit, and risk

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in consumer lending
• Experience with lending marketplaces (e.g. Credit Karma, Credible, etc.)
• Proficiency with PowerBI