Haystack
← Back to Jobs
Full time
Technology

Senior Data Scientist, Finance

JobtailorMelbourne, Victoria🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 29 Jul 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid Senior Data Scientist role offers significant career growth by enabling you to design and deploy impactful financial models, mentor a high-performing team, and directly influence strategic decision-making. You'll thrive here if you possess strong SQL, Python/R, and machine learning skills, enjoy translating complex data into actionable insights, and are eager to collaborate within a dynamic environment. Apply now to leverage your expertise and drive innovation in a role that values your contributions.

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Schedule
Full Time
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

  • Design and deliver models, analytics, and insight frameworks for faster decision-making within Finance and G&A teams
  • Lead forecasting, planning, and performance management efforts, embedding models in key operational cycles
  • Build solutions independently as part of a high-impact team
  • Mentor analysts and data scientists across G&A to enhance AI and advanced analytics application
  • Collaborate with teams to create usable models and dashboards from complex data
Requirements
  • Strong SQL skills for extracting, wrangling, and analyzing large, complex datasets
  • Solid Python or R experience across the full data science workflow, from feature engineering to model deployment
  • Good grounding in statistical and machine learning techniques, including time-series forecasting, regression, classification, and causal inference
  • Comfortable with data visualisation tools like Tableau to communicate complex analysis to non-technical stakeholders
  • Strong problem-framing skills to translate ambiguous business questions into clear analytical problems
  • Experience partnering with Finance or a similar corporate function
Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in SQL and Python or R for data analysis and model deployment, with a strong foundation in statistical and machine learning techniques. Capable of mentoring teams and translating complex data into actionable insights for Finance and G&A functions.

Highest-signal resume keywords
  • SQL Data Extraction
  • Python Data Science Workflow
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Machine Learning Techniques
  • Data Visualization with Tableau
ATS Optimization Keywords Hard Skills
  • SQL
  • Python
  • R
  • Statistical Techniques
  • Machine Learning
  • Time-Series Forecasting
  • Regression Analysis
  • Classification
  • Causal Inference
  • Feature Engineering
Soft Skills
  • Problem-Framing
  • Mentoring
  • Collaboration
Industry Keywords
  • Finance
  • G&A
  • Data Science
  • Analytics
  • Performance Management
Tools & Technologies
  • Tableau

Skills

SQL
Machine Learning
Tableau
Python

Similar jobs