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 UKI Finance RP Finance Data Scientist to advance ML‑driven forecasting across CFO agendas. The role focuses on problem framing, data prep, model validation and production integration within the Finance Reinvention practice, delivering measurable business impact.

You will work with FP&A, data engineers and finance stakeholders to anchor forecasts in planning calendars, address uncertainty, and explain results to senior leadership. London‑based hybrid work expected.

Qualifications

• Depth in time series and forecasting methods across classical and modern approaches.
• Python and the associated analytical stack with production deployment, plus SQL, Git and reproducible pipelines.
• Strong forecast evaluation knowledge including cross‑validation, back‑testing, error and bias metrics.
• Experience with large, multi‑source datasets and data-quality checks in forecasting pipelines.
• Ability to explain model behaviour to a finance audience and defend implications.
• Ability to align models with planning calendars, business assumptions and adoption workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build forecasting models on client financial and operational data, covering revenue, cost and cash with diverse approaches.
• Prepare and validate multi‑source data, engineer drivers and model hierarchies across entities and geographies.
• Design back‑testing and time‑series validation, compare against benchmarks and evaluate accuracy and business impact.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analyses to CFO‑level interrogation, including uncertainty ranges and interventions.
• Produce variance explanations and commentary suitable for FP&A review and plan vs actual analysis.
• Integrate models into client planning cycles and EPM platforms with pipelines, deployment and monitoring.
• Collaborate with AI Engineers on forecasting-adjacent workflows while ensuring finance governance.
• Document methods, data, assumptions, limitations and validation evidence; measure impact on decisions.

Skills

Time series forecasting

Python

SQL

Git

Data visualization

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

SageMaker

Job description

Accenture is seeking a UKI Finance RP Finance Data Scientist to advance ML‑driven forecasting across CFO agendas. The role focuses on problem framing, data prep, model validation and production integration within the Finance Reinvention practice, delivering measurable business impact.

You will work with FP&A, data engineers and finance stakeholders to anchor forecasts in planning calendars, address uncertainty, and explain results to senior leadership. London‑based hybrid work expected.