Data Scientist

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Data Scientist modeling loan performance, credit risk, recoveries, and real estate collateral for WBL’s U.S. commercial lending business. Building predictive models and validating portfolio outcomes.

Responsibilities:

  • Analyze and validate internal credit, risk, valuation, and recovery models against historical loan and portfolio outcomes
  • Build predictive and forecasting models for loan performance, defaults, payoff timing, collateral value changes, recovery outcomes, costs, and timelines
  • Design and run backtests, sensitivity analyses, scenario comparisons, and time-based analyses across large historical datasets
  • Extract, clean, reconcile, and validate data from large, multi-source lending and real estate datasets
  • Identify factors predictive of loan performance, collateral outcomes, and realized recoveries
  • Build simple tools allowing stakeholders to explore model results and scenarios
  • Investigate and document data quality issues, edge cases, model limitations, and inconsistencies
  • Translate analytical findings into recommendations for underwriting, credit, pricing, portfolio management, and risk management
  • Maintain clean, reproducible, well-documented analytical and modeling work
  • Present analyses and findings clearly to teams and stakeholders
  • Participate in daily BLV alignment meetings

Requirements:

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or a related field
  • 3 to 7 years of experience in data science, applied modeling, or quantitative analytics
  • Stable, reliable internet connection
  • Professional and dedicated remote working setup
  • Background or strong interest in finance, banking, commercial lending, U.S. real estate, or property valuation
  • Familiarity with commercial or small business lending is a plus
  • Experience with predictive modeling, forecasting, survival/time-to-event analysis, or other time-based estimation problems
  • Experience with credit risk, default, loss, recovery, model validation, or scenario/sensitivity analysis is a plus
  • Experience reconciling and cleaning data from multiple sources or systems
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Experience with statistical modeling, machine learning, forecasting, or related quantitative techniques, including model evaluation and validation
  • Experience working with large datasets, including writing efficient, performance-conscious data processing code
  • Experience building simple, shareable analytical tools or dashboards is a plus
  • Strong data communication skills and ability to explain complex analytical and modeling findings to technical and non-technical audiences
  • Ability to work autonomously and proactively in ambiguous situations

Benefits:

  • Paid time off (PTO)
  • Fully remote work environment