Senior Data Scientist, Strategic Finance (FP&A)

Cleo; Greater London; On-site; GBP 69,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health, dental and vision insurance

Pension contributions

Learning & development platform

Sabbatical after four years

Job summary

Cleo is hiring a Senior/Lead Data Scientist, Strategic Finance (FP&A) to own and scale the automation and intelligence layer within Strategic Finance. You will collaborate with the Director of Strategic Finance, Product, Data, Engineering, and the CEO's office to surface critical insights.

You will build predictive models and scalable tools for scenario planning, LTV, pricing, and capital allocation, driving forward-thinking financial decisions, with an IC start and future leadership growth.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in data analytics, data science, BI engineering, analytics engineering, or hybrid data/finance roles.
• Strong time-series forecasting experience.
• Experience developing and owning predictive modelling systems at a company level.
• Ability to communicate analytical insights with influence at senior forums.
• Hands-on experience with BI tools and data workflow tools; strong SQL and Python.
• Experience with FP&A, Strategic Finance, or similar teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own and scale the automation and intelligence layer within Strategic Finance, architecting the models, tools, and systems that surface critical insights.
• Build predictive models and decision-support tools driving core financial statements; revenue, gross profit, costs, and cash flow.
• Turn analyses into scalable, self-serve tools for scenario planning, LTV modelling, cohort analysis, pricing, and capital allocation.
• Collaborate with Data, Product, and Engineering to define data models powering executive insight and decisioning.
• Automate recurring finance workflows: investor reporting, covenant tracking, performance pacing, and close tasks.
• Create intelligent reporting for financial and operational metrics—trading updates, forecast variance, board KPIs, etc.
• Own the architecture for insight delivery—dashboards, semantic layers, data pipelines.
• Act as the technical bridge within Strategic Finance to enable faster decisions via automation.
• Champion data governance and documentation for consistency and trust.
• Start as an IC with potential to grow into building a team.

Skills

Time-series forecasting

Predictive modelling

SQL

Python

BI tools

Tools

Looker

Mode

Tableau

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Cleo is hiring a Senior/Lead Data Scientist, Strategic Finance (FP&A) to own and scale the automation and intelligence layer within Strategic Finance. You will collaborate with the Director of Strategic Finance, Product, Data, Engineering, and the CEO's office to surface critical insights.

You will build predictive models and scalable tools for scenario planning, LTV, pricing, and capital allocation, driving forward-thinking financial decisions, with an IC start and future leadership growth.