Lead Data Scientist, Liquidity Forecasting (Hybrid)

Wise; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options in a profitable company

Hybrid working model

Annual personal development budget

Visa and relocation support

Job summary

Wise is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join the Treasury team, focusing on liquidity management modelling and forecasting. You will design and implement models to ensure sufficient cash across regions and currencies, while driving operational efficiency.

You’ll partner with engineering, product, and risk to deploy robust data-driven solutions, influence decisions, and manage liquidity risk in a fast-growing global business.

Qualifications

• Strong Python knowledge with ability to read code and collaborate with engineers.
• Experience with big data technologies (Hadoop, Spark) and cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Solid grounding in statistics, machine learning, linear algebra, and optimisation.
• Autonomous, product-minded, and able to operate in cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication skills for non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and refine liquidity forecasting and management models.
• Collaborate with treasury, product, and engineering to deploy scalable models.
• Develop analyses for stress events and new product launches.
• Translate liquidity risk scenarios into actionable, customer-focused insights and present results to senior stakeholders.

Skills

Python

Hadoop

Spark

AWS

Data warehousing

Statistics

ML

Optimization

Tools

Hadoop

Spark

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Wise is seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join the Treasury team, focusing on liquidity management modelling and forecasting. You will design and implement models to ensure sufficient cash across regions and currencies, while driving operational efficiency.

You’ll partner with engineering, product, and risk to deploy robust data-driven solutions, influence decisions, and manage liquidity risk in a fast-growing global business.