Senior Data Scientist (Credit)

Moniepoint Group
India
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: Data Science & Machine LearningExperience: 5+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Ownership","Communication","Collaboration","Problem-solving"]

Senior Data Scientist focused on powering Moniepoint’s consumer lending decisions at scale by building credit risk models, fraud/credit scoring, and pricing strategies. You will design experiments, deploy models to real-time systems, mentor cross-functional teams, and ensure data quality and compliance while optimizing approvals, losses, and profitability across Nigeria and Africa.

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Moniepoint Group
Moniepoint Group
8 months ago

Senior Data Scientist (Credit)

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Job Summary

Senior Data Scientist focused on powering Moniepoint’s consumer lending decisions at scale by building credit risk models, fraud/credit scoring, and pricing strategies. You will design experiments, deploy models to real-time systems, mentor cross-functional teams, and ensure data quality and compliance while optimizing approvals, losses, and profitability across Nigeria and Africa.
Location: India
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key 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

Pay and Benefits

Perks:Health InsurancePensionLearning BudgetRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Degree or qualifications in a quantitative field (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, R)
  • •Experience with A/B testing, machine learning, collections modelling and churn management
Experience:5+ yearsCredit riskConsumer lendingRisk analytics
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:OwnershipCommunicationCollaborationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLPythonRMachine learningA/B testing

Company Brief

Moniepoint Group
Provides digital payments, merchant services, agent banking, card issuance, and business banking solutions across Nigeria and other African markets, serving SMEs, merchants, and financial institutions with technology-first transaction and banking infrastructure.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: Lagos, Nigeria
Founded: 2015
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