Finance Data Scientist - ML-Driven Forecasting & Planning

Accenture PLC; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

UKI Finance RP is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence capabilities with ML-driven forecasting. You will own forecasting models from framing and data prep to production integration, monitoring and adoption within the CFO-focused finance domain.

The role emphasizes combining statistical rigour with finance-process understanding, delivering explainable forecasts and finance-ready insights for planning and performance management.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of relevant professional experience.
• Strong time series and forecasting knowledge across classical and modern approaches.
• Proficient Python stack with production-grade data science pipelines, plus SQL and Git.
• Experience with large, multi-source datasets and data-quality checks.
• Ability to explain model behavior to finance audiences and defend assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Build forecasting models on client financial and operational data across revenue, cost, cash, and drivers.
• Prepare and validate multi-source data, engineer internal and external drivers, and model hierarchies.
• Design back-testing and time-series cross-validation with benchmarks and assess accuracy, bias, and business impact.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analyses at CFO-level interrogation, including uncertainty ranges and interventions.
• Produce variance explanations and commentary suitable for FP&A review and plan-actual analysis.
• Integrate models into client planning cycles and EPM platforms, collaborating with Data/ML engineers on pipelines and deployment.
• Work with AI engineers on forecast narratives and override workflows while maintaining finance oversight.
• Document methods, data, assumptions, and validation evidence; measure impact on decision quality.

Skills

Time series

Forecasting

Python

SQL

Git

Explainability

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

UKI Finance RP is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence capabilities with ML-driven forecasting. You will own forecasting models from framing and data prep to production integration, monitoring and adoption within the CFO-focused finance domain.

The role emphasizes combining statistical rigour with finance-process understanding, delivering explainable forecasts and finance-ready insights for planning and performance management.