Senior Data Scientist (Credit)
Moniepoint(1 month ago)
About this role
Senior Data Scientist role focused on consumer lending, responsible for building the first suite of credit risk, pricing, and behavioural models to support underwriting, pricing, and collections. The role will influence how Moniepoint acquires, underwrites, and retains millions of customers across Nigeria and Africa and requires close collaboration with product and consumer credit teams. This position emphasizes data-driven decision-making, ethical model use, and scaling model deployment to real-time systems.
Required Skills
- Credit Scoring
- Affordability Modelling
- Behavioural Modelling
- Experiment Design
- A/B Testing
- Underwriting
- Pricing
- Collections Modelling
- Churn Management
- SQL
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Qualifications
- Degree in Quantitative Field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering or Similar)
About Moniepoint
moniepoint.comMoniepoint is a fintech platform that powers payments, banking, and back-office operations for businesses and their customers, with a focus on financial inclusion in emerging markets. It provides an all‑in‑one suite — including payments acceptance, merchant POS and digital banking tools, APIs and operational services — that helps merchants, SMEs and agent networks run and grow their financial services. Moniepoint positions itself as an infrastructure partner for businesses and financial institutions, simplifying transactions, payouts, reconciliations and customer account management. Its mission centers on expanding access to formal financial services and enabling commerce across underserved markets.