Data Science Manager (Credit)

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

Lead and scale a data science team focused on consumer credit risk, pricing, and model deployment in a high-growth fintech environment. Own the development of credit scoring, affordability, and behavioral models, run experiments to optimize underwriting and profitability, and partner with Product and Engineering to drive decisions across the credit lifecycle.

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Moniepoint Group
Moniepoint Group
8 months ago

Data Science Manager (Credit)

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Job Summary

Lead and scale a data science team focused on consumer credit risk, pricing, and model deployment in a high-growth fintech environment. Own the development of credit scoring, affordability, and behavioral models, run experiments to optimize underwriting and profitability, and partner with Product and Engineering to drive decisions across the credit lifecycle.
Location: Bengaluru
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Data Science & Machine Learning
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Developing 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:Remote WorkHealth InsurancePensionAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •Degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or similar)
  • •+5 years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within financial services, including +2 years in management
  • •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+ yearsFintechFinancial servicesCredit riskConsumer lending
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:LeadershipCommunicationProblem-solving
Languages:English
Tech Stack:SQLPythonRA/B testingMachine learning

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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