Finance Forecasting Data Scientist

3003 Accenture (UK) Limited Company; City Of London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance the Decision Intelligence capability in forecasting. You will own models from framing and data prep through validation, production integration and monitoring, collaborating with FP&A and finance stakeholders to drive measurable business impact.

The role combines deep technical work with finance-domain insight, enabling adoption within client planning cycles and ensuring explainability and governance across model deployments.

Qualifications

• Depth in time series and forecasting methods, including seasonality and model trade-offs.
• Python and the analytical stack with production or near-production deployment, plus SQL and Git.
• Strong forecast evaluation knowledge: back-testing, cross-validation, uncertainty metrics.
• Experience with large, multi-source datasets and data-quality checks in forecasting pipelines.
• Ability to explain model behaviour to a finance audience and justify assumptions.
• Ability to align models with FP&A calendars, adoption workflows and measurable outcomes.
• At least 4 years of relevant professional experience.

Responsibilities

• Build forecasting models on client data across revenue, cost, cash and demand signals using classical, econometric, ML or DL methods.
• Prepare and validate multi-source data, engineer drivers, address seasonality and hierarchical relationships.
• Design back-testing and time-series cross-validation; compare benchmarks and evaluate accuracy, bias and business impact.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analyses to CFO-level standards, including stress tests and counterfactuals.
• Produce variance explanations and commentary suitable for FP&A reviews and plan-vs-actual analyses.
• Integrate models into client planning cycles and EPM platforms, coordinating with Data/ML Engineers on deployment and monitoring.
• Document methods, data, assumptions and validation; measure decision quality improvements.

Skills

Time series

Forecasting

Python

SQL

Model validation

Data pipelines

Stakeholder comms

FP&A knowledge

MLOps

Cloud platforms

Tools

Python

SQL

Git

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance the Decision Intelligence capability in forecasting. You will own models from framing and data prep through validation, production integration and monitoring, collaborating with FP&A and finance stakeholders to drive measurable business impact.

The role combines deep technical work with finance-domain insight, enabling adoption within client planning cycles and ensuring explainability and governance across model deployments.