Finance Data Scientist — ML-Driven Forecasting & Insights

Accenture UK; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture UK is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence in our UKI Finance RP practice. You will own ML-driven forecasting, from framing problems and preparing data to validation, production integration and monitoring, working with FP&A stakeholders.

You will design robust forecasting pipelines, validate models, and communicate results with clarity to finance teams, driving adoption and measurable impact across planning processes.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in time series and forecasting methods across classical and modern approaches.

Responsibilities

• Build forecasting models on client financial and operational data across revenue, cost, cash and demand signals.
• Prepare and validate multi-source data, engineer internal and external drivers, address seasonality and structural change.
• Design back-testing and time-series cross-validation with transparent benchmarks and business impact.
• Run scenario analyses with CFO-level interrogation including uncertainty ranges and interventions.
• Produce variance explanations and commentary for plan-versus-actual analyses.

Skills

Time series forecasting

Python

SQL

Git

Model validation

Forecasting evaluation

Explainability to finance

Data engineering basics

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture UK is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence in our UKI Finance RP practice. You will own ML-driven forecasting, from framing problems and preparing data to validation, production integration and monitoring, working with FP&A stakeholders.

You will design robust forecasting pipelines, validate models, and communicate results with clarity to finance teams, driving adoption and measurable impact across planning processes.