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Moniepoint is hiring a Senior Data Scientist (Credit)

Responsibilities

  • 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

Requirements

  • Degree or qualifications in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar)
  • 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

Benefits

  • Culture: We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
  • Learning: We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
  • Compensation: You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, monthly bonuses, plus other benefits

Work Arrangement

Remote (Country)

Team

Team size: ~100 teammates. Structure: based across Bengaluru, Mumbai, Pune, Chennai, Hyderabad, and Gurgaon

Additional Information

  • You’ll work in a fast-paced, high-impact environment alongside experienced operators from companies such as Gojek, Tide, Amazon, Walmart, Paytm, BharatPe, Zeta, Delivery Hero, Grab, and Groupon.
  • If you want to build at scale, work with one of Africa’s highest-volume fintech data sets, and ship products that materially impact tens of millions of users, this is an exceptional time to join.
Required Skills
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Moniepoint
Moniepoint is a financial technology company building the infrastructure for digital commerce and payments across Africa.
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Department Consumer Credit
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Posted 4 hours ago