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Head of Data Science - FinTech

London
£80000 - £120000 per annum
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Head of Data Science - FinTech
London
£80,000 - £120,000

This is an exciting new opportunity for an experienced Data Science & Decision Science Lead to grow out this function for a start-up fintech company.

THE COMPANY

This start-up Fintech company are looking to transition their current Decision Science team to become more Data Science focused and Machine Learning driven. You'll be coming in experienced in both areas with the view to grow out this area for the business and develop this data science function, initially getting stuck in with the technical work but long-term growing out a team. It's a great opportunity for someone looking to join a successful start-up and really make an impact.

THE ROLE

As Head of Data Science for the business you will:

  • Establish best practice for Data Science across the business and drive the new machine learning approach
  • You will oversee the strategy for and roadmap projects, looking at how the business can use their data and data science techniques in respect to lending
  • You will be building lifetime value models, credit risk models, gradient boosting models and other machine learning models to help improve the business
  • You will work towards building out this new team for the business

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

  • PhD or Masters Degree in a relevant field
  • Excellent commercial Data Science & Decision Science experience in a financial services / banking environment
  • Experience applying data science to lending
  • Proven leadership experience - managing both a team and stakeholders
  • Excellent technical modelling experience and be happy to continue to be technical for the first 12 months

SALARY AND BENEFITS

  • Basic salary £80,000 - £120,000
  • Great benefits package!

HOW TO APPLY

Please register your interest for this role by sending your CV to Rosie O'Callaghan via the apply link on this page

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