Data Scientist - FinTech

Are you excited to work with one of the fastest growing Fintech companies? Read on to know more.

Our client is a Financing and Credit Improvement platform. They offer an instant revolving credit line for labourers and blue-collar workers, with an aim to improve the financial health of such workers in India. They help them to get short term cash, build their creditworthiness and connect them to the mainstream financial world. The company ties up with leading digital platforms and updates information about their earnings through their app while their digital infrastructure ensures a seamless lead and payout, and thereafter a repayment schedule.

With 12 digital partners, over 12000 users and more than a lakh app downloads, the company has been growing constantly for the past 2 years. The founders are alumnus of MDI and IIT-D, with immense experience in the tech and finance world, and can boast of partner clients like Swiggy and Grofers.

As a Data Scientist, you will build machine learning models & credit strategy for the life cycle of consumer lending - Underwriting/ LCM/ Collections.

What you will do:

- Setting up scalable, efficient, automated processes for model development, validation, implementation &monitoring

- Providing actionable data-driven recommendations to stakeholders business questions

- Performing ad hoc analysis for business teams and leadership, and helping them build business cases and models to quantify new opportunities, using data and business judgment.

- Liaising with tech team to build the fully automated best fintech products.

What you need to have:

- Experience with Python/ R, SQL is necessary

- Strong background in statistical concepts and calculations (Descriptive & Inferential Statistics)

- Exposure to Supervised and Unsupervised Modelling techniques with application on the business/ real life problems.

- Excellent critical thinking skills, combined with the ability to present your beliefs clearly, compellingly verbally and in written form

- Exception problem solving skills

- Any exposure to the Fintech industry is a plus

- B.E/ B.Tech/ Design Degree/ MBA from a Tier-1 college would be an added advantage