Finance Forecasting Data Scientist - Consultant

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

Job summary

Accenture UK is hiring a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence in the UKI Finance RP. You will drive ML-driven forecasting from problem framing to production, working with planning calendars, data pipelines and finance stakeholders.

You will blend statistical rigor with finance-process understanding to deliver explainable, decision-ready solutions that influence cash, profitability and risk across the enterprise.

Qualifications

• Depth in time series and forecasting methods spanning classical and modern approaches.
• Python and the analytical stack with production or near-production deployment experience.
• Strong understanding of forecast evaluation and time-series cross-validation.
• Experience with large, multi-source datasets and data quality checks in forecasting pipelines.
• Ability to explain model behavior to finance audiences and defend assumptions.
• Ability to align models with planning calendars and measurable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build forecasting models on client financial and operational data using diverse approaches.
• Prepare and validate multi-source data and engineer drivers and hierarchies.
• Design back-testing and cross-validation with benchmarks and performance metrics.
• Run scenario and sensitivity analyses for CFO-level interrogation.
• Produce variance explanations and commentary for plan-versus-actual analyses.
• Integrate models into client planning cycles and monitor deployment and drift.

Skills

Time series forecasting

Python

SQL

Git

Forecast evaluation

Tools

Databricks

Snowflake

Azure ML

SageMaker

Vertex AI

Anaplan

OneStream

Job description

Accenture UK is hiring a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence in the UKI Finance RP. You will drive ML-driven forecasting from problem framing to production, working with planning calendars, data pipelines and finance stakeholders.

You will blend statistical rigor with finance-process understanding to deliver explainable, decision-ready solutions that influence cash, profitability and risk across the enterprise.