Data Scientist - Finance Crick, England
Job description
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Come and join us in our newly created role of Data Scientist - Finance, and be part of a hugely successful and friendly team.
The Role:
As a Data Scientist, you’ll play a vital part in building predictive and prescriptive models that will improve our business decision making, and ultimately lead to top to bottom growth across our Group. This Data Scientist role is a brand new for the business and consequently you’ll be given full support by the Data and Finance teams and the opportunity to make a real impact! The Data Scientist role will sit at the forefront of our business decision making, utilising data as the catalyst to drive us forward as an organisation
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop and deploy descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytical models to help drive effective decision making across the Highbourne group
- Aid senior team members in identifying and maintaining relationships with and between stakeholders, and acts as a point of technical expertise on engagements developing deep understanding of their strategy, future direction, changes and needs
- Identify opportunities to deliver innovative solutions across the organisation to reduce the demand on analytical resources, enhance analytical products and increase the effectiveness of Group Data operational assets
- Constantly seeks to improve the integrity, veracity and diversity of available data to ensure the best possible resource for business analytics
- Continuously seek improvement in technical skills to ensure they are relevant to a rapidly changing technical environment
- Ensure data is handled in a secure and responsible manner conforming to latest legislation, organisational policies / procedures and overall information management strategy within the team
This is a hybrid-based opportunity with true flexibility to work from home, but you should be within commutable distance of our newly refurbished offices in Crick, Northamptonshire
You:
You’ll live and breathe our Customer First ethos, with an innovative and agile approach to problem-solving. You’ll enjoy working collaboratively with the wider Data team and you’ll thrive on delivering excellent data delivery
Skills and competencies
- Previous experience working as a Data Scientist
- Understanding of predictive modelling, machine learning, and classification techniques
- Advanced knowledge of Google Sheets, Excel, and SQL
- Strong statistical skills with the ability to collect, organise, analyse, and disseminate significant amounts of information with high attention to detail and accuracy
- You’ll have an analytical mind and be someone who enjoys working alongside senior stakeholders, by showing your initiative and desire to find solutions to problems
It is highly likely you will have worked in any of the following roles and/or markets, and worked with the following products and/or services: Data Analyst, Data Scientist, MI Analyst, Reporting Analysts, SQL Analysts, System Finance Analyst, Finance Analyst, BI Analyst, SQL, Construction, Building Products, Retail, Manufacturing, FMCG
Us:
From boilers to bathroom suites, tubing to towel rails and everything in between, City Plumbing has all the products our customers need to complete the job. And we have all you need to build a successful career! We’re proud of our reputation for selling quality plumbing and heating products to both trade and retail customers and we’re super excited about our future. We put our colleagues at the heart of all we do, giving them all the tools they need to be successful, happy and feel rewarded in their career with us.
Benefits Package and Cultural Environment:
- Bonus
- Discounts, savings and cash back at numerous retailers
- Savings on driving lessons, phone bills, gym memberships as well as further benefits
- Life assurance
- Extended family policy including maternity, paternity, additional annual leave and more
- Mental Health First Aiders and Employee Assistance Programme, we look out for each other
- Complete induction and a company that lets you grow and encourages development
- Financial education and loans
- Flexible working options
- A business striving to create an environment of inclusion so everyone can be their true self
- And more!
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We’re passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that celebrates and values diversity. Bring your whole self to work regardless of age, disability, gender identity or reassignment, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex or sexual orientation. We don’t want you to ‘fit’ our culture, we want you to enrich it.
We are committed to best practices in recruitment and undertake Basic Criminal Record Disclosures for candidates that are offered employment within our branches that undertake deliveries for British Gas. This check will only be undertaken after the acceptance of an offer of employment.
