Senior Data Scientist, Credit
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Senior Data Scientist building credit scoring and lending models for Moniepoint’s African financial platform. Optimising underwriting, pricing, collections, and customer retention across Nigeria and Africa.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and deploy credit scoring, affordability, and behavioural models for 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 decisioning processes
- Mentor product squads on experimentation and data-driven decision-making best practices
- Develop models to optimise collections, churn management, and user retention
- Build credit risk models and shape machine learning versus traditional modelling approaches
- Translate complex data into actionable decisions supporting growth and healthy portfolio performance
Requirements:
- Degree or qualifications in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or similar
- 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 or 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
Benefits:
- Culture focused on employee well-being, respect, inclusion, and having all voices heard
- Learning and development-focused environment
- Knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks
- Attractive salary
- Pension
- Health insurance
- Monthly bonuses
- Other benefits
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