Senior Data Scientist, Analytics

Key Skills

Data science techniques, Design, Effective communication skills, Financial Risk, Python Programming, R Programming, SQL

Job Description

Airwallex is the leading financial technology platform for modern businesses growing beyond borders. With one of the world’s most powerful payments and banking infrastructure, our technology empowers businesses of all sizes to accept payments, move money globally, and simplify their financial operations, all in one single platform.

Established in 2015 in Melbourne, our purpose is to connect entrepreneurs, business builders, makers and creators with opportunities in every corner of the world. Today, Airwallex has a global footprint across Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America.

What you will do:

• Define, understand, and test opportunities and levers to improve the product, and drive roadmaps through your insights and recommendations
• Work with large and complex data sets to solve a wide array of business problems using different analytical and statistical approaches
• Apply technical expertise with quantitative analysis, experimentation, data mining, and the presentation of data to develop strategies for our products Identify and measure success of product efforts through goal setting, forecasting, and monitoring of key product metrics to understand trends.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and cross-functional teams to inform, influence, support, and execute product strategy and investment decisions

What you will bring:

• 5+ years industry experience and an advanced degree in a quantitative field
• Experience with communicating the results of analyses to executives and cross-functional teams to influence the strategy
• Expert in data querying languages (e.g. SQL), scripting languages (e.g. Python), and/or statistical/mathematical software (e.g. R), experience in schema design and dimensional data modeling a plus
• Ability to perform statistical analysis to drive data-informed decisions
• Experience in technology, financial services and/or a high growth environment is advantageous

At Airwallex you’ll have the ability to make an impact in a rapidly growing, global fintech. We want you to share in our success, which is why you’ll be offered a competitive salary plus valuable equity within Airwallex. We also like to ensure we create the best environment for our people by providing a collaborative open office space with a fully stocked kitchen. We organise regular team building events and we give our people the freedom to be creative.