Senior Data Scientist, iwoca
Operations
£60-90k
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1-3 days a week in office
Online loans for small businesses
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Online loans for small businesses
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£60-90k
+ Share options
1-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To give small business owners a great experience while getting the finance they need.
Role
Who you are
- A PhD in a relevant numerate discipline or previous experience in solving business problems in industry with statistics or machine learning techniques
- Ability to dive deep into the business context and translate data into actionable insights
- Strong problem-solving skills in probability and statistics
- Proficiency with data manipulation and modelling tools, for example. pandas, statsmodels, and R
- Self-driven with the capability to efficiently manage projects end-to-end
- Excellent communication skills, you tailor your communication style and the technical detail according to your audience
Desirable
- Python experience (we mostly work in Python)
- Experience with experimental design and Bayesian analysis
What the job involves
- As a senior data scientist in our Operations Strategy team, you’ll help us use data-driven insights to make strategic improvements to the service our Operations teams provide to our customers
- As a Senior Data Scientist in our Operations Strategy team, the data-driven insights that you produce will help us make strategic improvements to our ways of working in our UK and Germany Operations teams (currently c.180 people, across London, Leeds, and Frankfurt)
- You will play a crucial role working to set up and analyse tests, and to build statistical models which will allow us to better understand the value of the work carried out by our Operations teams
- This allows us to continue improving the efficiency and effectiveness of our Operations teams, all while maintaining an exceptional level of customer service
- Strategy and innovation:
- You’ll work very closely with the Head of Operations Strategy, Operations staff and other stakeholders to ensure that your work aligns closely with business goals and achieves valuable commercial outcomes
- Design experiments to compare the performance of different strategies and evaluate them rigorously to make unbiased decisions
- Share your findings and modelling with the wider business to impact our strategy. We live and breathe data as a company, so Data Scientists have a key role in the decision-making
- Ownership and influence:
- Independently build data science solutions and statistical models to solve our business problems, with full responsibility in the solution design
- Promote analytical rigour within the team, ensuring that our experimental designs are correctly defined and that we evaluate tests without bias
- In-depth expertise:
- Join our community of Analysts/Data Scientists/Statisticians to ensure alignment in methodology across iwoca. You’ll be part of a peer group with whom you can discuss best practices or the latest advances so that you share and deepen your technical expertise
- Build deep expertise in Operations processes across the full range of the customer journey, from signup through to collections
- Here are some examples of projects you might work on:
- Setting up, monitoring and analysing split tests, to help understand the value of operations activities. This could include determining the ROI of different types of outbound calls that are made by our Account Managers and using this to prioritise these calls effectively to maximise the effectiveness of the team
- Building predictive models based on customer satisfaction data, to determine whether changes that are made to operations' processes genuinely improve customer satisfaction
- Building statistical models to enhance the ability of operations teams to do accurate forecasting and capacity planning
Salary benchmarks
Our take
UK SME's are the backbone of a complex economy that is constantly changing, so the need for fast and responsive access to finance is becoming more and more important to ensure their success and growth. iwoca allows SMEs access to business loans in less than a minute, with its API and business marketplace partnerships.
With offerings like iwoca's, gone are the days where waiting up to eight weeks for a loan decision was viable. Its simplified business loans of £1,000 - £500,000 come with no fees attached, and applying online takes no more than five minutes. The ready availability of iwoca loans gives business owners a level of certainty, so that they can make instant decisions to help their business grow.
iwoca has made a number of partnerships with other players in the business finance space, including an impressive industry-first invoice checkout integration with QuickBooks. Funding raised by the company, which is now operating at net profitability, will enable it to meet a recent surge in demand for corporate loans. The company has made several billion in funding available to over 100,000 businesses since launching, positioning itself as a leading European fintech.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
35% female employees
-2% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"Great opportunities available to learn from both individuals through shadowing, and teams through presentations and even secondment opportunities -..."
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Aug 2019
$12.7m
GRANT
Feb 2019
$25.3m
SERIES D
Total funding: $92.4m
Company benefits
- Flexible working across all teams.
- Twice a year we rent houses in places like Sicily and the French Alps where each team can work together for a week poolside.
- Employee share options
- Comprehensive health insurance and cash plans.
- Counselling and private therapy benefits
- Fully stocked fridges for breakfast and snacks throughout your day.
- Enhanced maternity and paternity leave for new parents plus a nursery benefit.
- Unlimited unpaid leave.
- The time and budget to invest in your professional development.
- Volunteering Days
Company values
- Motivated: Going to work shouldn't feel like a slog, so we want everyone in the team to personally care about what they're working on. We stay motivated by celebrating our wins, learning from our mistakes, and always looking for new gaps to step into.
- Smart: At iwoca being smart isn't about what you know, it's about how you think. Smart thinking means looking at each problem by asking ‘why’ first, then figuring out ‘how’.
- Humble: We know all ideas are flawed, all code has bugs, and everyone makes mistakes - it’s how we learn. For us, being humble means you question yourself first, rather than your team.
- Growth Mindset: We think there's always a better way to solve a problem. So we never let ourselves get comfortable with being good enough.
Company HQ
Fitzrovia, London, UK
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Leadership
Christoph Rieche
(CEO)James Dear
(Head of Systems & Numbers)People progressing
Joined as a Customer Onboarder, moved into the Broker Team and has most recently been promoted to Partnerships Manager.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at iwoca
- We work hard to make iwoca a place where everyone feels welcome, where you can confidently be yourself. We understand that diversity isn't an optional add-on, it's the core ingredient of what makes us great.
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