Lead Data Scientist

Summary

Join Extend's Finance Analytics team as a Data Scientist and take ownership of revenue forecasting, developing forecasting models, and monitoring revenue performance. Collaborate with the CFO and cross-functional teams to identify revenue opportunities and improve financial planning. Build and maintain the financial data architecture, ensuring data integrity. This role requires a curious and entrepreneurial mindset with strong analytical skills and experience in forecasting models (like ARIMA). Extend offers a competitive salary, full medical/dental/vision benefits, stock options, generous PTO, 401k with Morgan Stanley guidance, and a collaborative work environment.

Requirements

• A curious, entrepreneurial data scientist with plenty of grit, analytical prowess, creative thinking, and initiative
• Hands-on experience with forecasting models (time series models such as ARIMA) is a must
• Bachelor's degree from a relevant major
• 5+ years of work experience as a data scientist, 2+ years of experience with financial modeling
• Ability to communicate/present across the organization, especially to teams with less data & analytics experience
• Expertise with SQL and Python
• Empathy and humility

Responsibilities

• Take ownership of revenue forecasting through development of forecasting models and revenue performance monitoring / reporting
• Work closely with CFO and other company leaders to identify revenue opportunities and improve financial planning process
• Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to understand different areas that impact revenue / financials of the organization and help with better forecasting / monitoring
• Build and maintain data architecture for financial and accounting input. Work closely with Data Engineering to make optimal use of available tools (DBT, Snowflake, JIRA, Github, etc)
• Lead efforts around financial data integrity through appropriate tools and governance

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree is a plus
• Insurance/financial experience is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salary based on experience, with full medical and dental & vision benefits
• Stock in an early-stage startup growing quickly
• Very generous, flexible paid time off policy
• 401(k) with Financial Guidance from Morgan Stanley