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Moniepoint Incorporated

Banking + 2 more

Senior Data Scientist (Credit)

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  • Develop and deploy credit scoring, affordability, and behavioural models to support underwriting, pricing, and collections
  • Design and run experiments to optimise approval rates, loss rates, and profitability
  • Partner with product squads to embed decision logic into real-time systems
  • Ensure data quality, compliance, and ethical use of models across all decisioning processes
  • Mentor product squads on best practices in experimentation and data-driven decision making
  • Provide models to optimise outcomes in collections, churn management and user retention

We would love to hear from you if…

  • You’re comfortable with Statistics - and have a Degree or qualifications in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar)
  • You have +5 years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within financial services
  • Working knowledge of credit risk, consumer lending, and regulatory considerations
  • Proficiency in SQL and at least one modelling/programming language (Python, R)
  • Experience with A/B testing, machine learning, collections modelling and churn management
  • Ability to translate complex analyses into clear recommendations for business stakeholders
  • High ownership mindset and comfort working in fast-paced, cross-functional teams

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