Head of Data Science at M-KOPA

Lagos

M Kopa

Company Info

Mid sized business

M-KOPA is a rapidly expanding FinTech startup that provides millions of underbanked Africans with life-changing products and services. We began as pioneers in pay-as-you-go PayGo solar energy for off-grid households and have now expanded to become one of the world's most advanced connected asset finance systems.

1 to 50 Employees

M-KOPA is a rapidly expanding FinTech startup that provides millions of underbanked Africans with life-changing products and services. We began as pioneers in pay-as-you-go PayGo solar energy for off-grid households and have now expanded to become one of the world’s most advanced connected asset finance systems.

Title: Head of Data Science

Location: Lagos

As the Head of Data Science at M-KOPA you will be, managing a distributed Data Science team in a growing FinTech environment.

  • Training team members throughout the organization to improve data fluency, and collaborating with the business to allow data-driven decision-making on critical business questions.
  • Following a hiatus hiring for this role and some internal moves and restructuring we are now back recruiting for this role.
  • This is a Senior role reporting directly to the CTO. You’ll be leading a team of Data Scientists that focus on;

Building mission critical machine learning models for a global-scale financial technology company.

  • Your experience should definitely include.
  • Experience building data science models in a consumer lending company, with experience in some combination of credit scoring, repayment forecasting, and/or risk assessment.
  • Experiencing line-managing data scientists

Deadline: Not Stated

How to Apply: Interested candidates should Click Here to apply online.