Job Description

Why is this your next step?

Worldpay’s Data Science team work smart and work together to drive real business value by delivering powerful, embedded predictive analytic solutions and by providing insight into customer, cardholder, transactional and financial behaviour. The team drives initiatives that increase business performance for both internal and external stakeholders and derive insight from accumulated data and analysis to help guide management and operational decision-making.

How you will contribute?

The key purpose of the role is to develop powerful, production grade predictive analytic solutions to drive business value from Worldpay’s significant data assets. By mining insight about customer, cardholder, transactional and financial behaviour, the role will drive initiatives that increase business performance and help guide management and operational decision-making.

You will be using state-of-the-art data mining tools and machine learning techniques to drive improved decisions. As part of your role you will be developing and implementing various types of predictive models, segmentation strategies, optimization algorithm’s and data mining analyses; integrating these into business processes with a targeted result of increasing revenue.

Why you?

Our Senior Risk Data Scientist will be well versed in the practical, technical and theoretical aspects of building predictive models and must be highly numerate.  We are looking for someone who has experience in enterprise risk, understand how risk strategy is implemented and how risk policies are organised within an organisation.

You will bring excellent SQL coding skills and strong statistical analysis or data mining preferably with Python, R, Spark or similar. We would expect you to have a proven track record of applying analytical skills to a variety of business problems delivering quantified benefits to the business as a result. Ideally experience in time series modelling. Furthermore, you will bring experience delivering business solutions and presentations to senior management to drive business growth, with excellent communication and influencing skills.

Join the Team.

We lift economies and communities by advancing the way the world pays, banks and invests.

Since our two companies came together, Worldpay has formed the Merchant Solutions division of FIS. We call it “Worldpay, from FIS”. In the time you’ve taken to read this one sentence, our platforms have processed over 8,000 transactions and this number grows daily. Join us now to realise your own future growth and success.

FIS stays ahead of how the world is evolving to power businesses, across merchants, banking and capital markets, to outpace today’s fast-changing competitive landscape and help our clients run, grow and achieve more for their business.

We want all our people to bring their very best self into work, and that means balancing priorities and passions, at work and at home. We create teams without barriers, fostering creativity and innovation - behaviours that we value in everything we do.

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Sourcing Model

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