Data Scientist: Reconciliation & Financial Analytics

Acxiom; Conway (AR); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Acxiom in Conway, Arkansas is seeking a Data Scientist to support reconciliation, settlement, and transaction analysis for a strategic client account. You will build dashboards, apply statistics, and transform large transactional data into actionable business insights, partnering with clients, vendors, and internal teams.

The role requires strong SQL, Excel, and data visualization skills, plus experience translating data into recommendations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field or equivalent experience.
• Experience analyzing large transactional, financial, or reconciliation datasets.
• Strong SQL, Excel, and data visualization skills.
• Ability to translate complex data into actionable business recommendations.
• Not eligible for sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Analyze transaction, settlement, and reconciliation datasets to identify discrepancies, trends, anomalies, and operational risks.
• Collaborate with clients, vendors, and internal stakeholders to understand business objectives, challenges, and reporting requirements.
• Perform root cause analysis to determine drivers of financial discrepancies, processing issues, and settlement variances.
• Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, scorecards, and visualizations that communicate financial and operational performance.
• Apply statistical analysis and data-driven methodologies to support operational decision-making.
• Translate complex data findings into actionable recommendations for business and technical stakeholders.
• Prepare, cleanse, validate, and transform data from multiple sources to support analysis and reporting.
• Utilize SQL, Excel, and analytical tools to retrieve and analyze large datasets.

Skills

Analytical thinking

SQL

Excel

Communication skills

Problem solving

Data visualization

Financial operations knowledge

Stakeholder management

Automation mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Accounting, or related field

Tools

Power BI

Tableau

Python

R

Job description

Acxiom in Conway, Arkansas is seeking a Data Scientist to support reconciliation, settlement, and transaction analysis for a strategic client account. You will build dashboards, apply statistics, and transform large transactional data into actionable business insights, partnering with clients, vendors, and internal teams.

The role requires strong SQL, Excel, and data visualization skills, plus experience translating data into recommendations.