Senior Finance Data Scientist - Forecasting

Remote Worker LTD.; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence for forecasting within the CFO domain. You will own forecasting models from framing to deployment, working with planning calendars and enterprise data.

You will design robust validation, handle multi-source data, and provide explainability and commentary to finance teams to improve forecast accuracy and planning efficiency.

Qualifications

• Depth in time series and forecasting methods across classical and modern approaches.
• Experience with production or near-production deployment of Python-based analytics.
• Strong forecast evaluation skills including back-testing and uncertainty assessment.
• Experience with large, multi-source datasets and data-quality checks.
• Ability to explain model behavior to finance stakeholders and defend assumptions.

Responsibilities

• Build forecasting models on client financial data using diverse methods.
• Prepare and validate multi-source data; engineer drivers and model hierarchies.
• Design back-testing, cross-validation and benchmark comparisons.
• Run scenario analyses and provide CFO-level insights and explanations.
• Integrate models into planning cycles and monitor adoption with stakeholders.
• Document methods, data, assumptions and validation evidence.

Skills

Time series forecasting

Python analytics stack

SQL

Forecast evaluation

Explain model to finance

Stakeholder alignment

Tools

Python analytics stack

SQL

Git

Job description

Accenture is seeking a Finance Data Scientist to advance decision intelligence for forecasting within the CFO domain. You will own forecasting models from framing to deployment, working with planning calendars and enterprise data.

You will design robust validation, handle multi-source data, and provide explainability and commentary to finance teams to improve forecast accuracy and planning efficiency.