Data Scientist I, FinTech

—- What the Candidate Will Do —-

• Work with tax operations, product, compliance, engineering, ops, accounting and other business stakeholders in mining and analyzing tax financial and entity-level data to extract key trends and insights.
• Investigate and resolve discrepancies in tax data, generate reports for external data sharing.
• Build effective visualizations to communicate data to key decision-makers. Be a trusted advisor to stakeholders cross-functionally.
• Build models to automate detection of anomalies/inconsistencies in tax data and resolve the same;
• Build end to end data pipelines and self serving dashboards. Automate whatever you can!
• Explore FinTech systems/data to proactively identify and initiate process improvements for cost savings and efficiencies.
• Communicate your findings to cross-functional peers and management.
• Get a deep understanding about the Tax systems and data flows involved; document and train internal personnel to institutionalize the learnings of the data science practice.

Basic Qualifications

• M.S. or Bachelors degree in Math, Economics, Bioinformatics, Statistics, Engineering, Computer Science, or other quantitative fields. (If M.S. degree, a minimum of 1+ years of industry experience required and if Bachelor’s degree, a minimum of 2+ years of industry experience as a Data Scientist or equivalent)
• Advanced SQL expertise
• Ability and experience in extracting insights from data, and summarizing learnings / takeaways to cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience with Excel and some dashboarding/data visualization (i.e. Tableau, Mixpanel, Looker, or similar)
• Past experience with a Product / Tech / Analytics Services company serving businesses with millions of customers on multiple platforms and countries

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with either Python or R
• Basic understanding of experimental design (such as A/B experiments) and statistical methods
• Demonstrated aptitude toward data storytelling and root cause analysis using data
• Enthusiastic, self-starting and thrives in changing, agile environments
• Liaise with Product and engineering counterparts to launch and impact new products
• Strong communication and organization skills
• Ability to multi-task while maintaining quality and detail
• Prior experience working in Finance, FinTech, Tax, Payments or a related area is a plus