Description : (Senior) Data Scientist - Volume & Receivables Forecasting. Company : Klarna. Location : Distans in Stockholm
On our path to becoming the world’s favorite way to shop, we’re assembling an unparalleled global talent network, accelerating individual careers, and disrupting entire industries. We are on a mission to liberate humanity from all the meaningless time spent managing their purchases and finances, so they can do more of what they love. We’re in search of global talent eager to embrace our atmosphere and defy their own expectations.
Data Science plays a vital role in Klarna’s operations in financial planning & analysis, building forecasting models to predict the future financial behavior of our consumers, which is a key pillar of the Financial Steering domain’s problem space. We’re now looking for a new data scientist to join the Volume & Receivables Forecasting team. The team’s scope is building, maintaining and developing forecasting models for consumer purchases, number of consumers as well as consumer purchase related line items on the balance sheet.
As a (Senior) Data Scientist within Volume & Rec Forecasting you will:
- Develop state of the art time series models, validate and maintain existing forecasting models.
- Bring your ideas to production using AWS.
- Be involved in the whole process of model development. This includes everything from data collection, data manipulation, model building, model monitoring, model versioning.
- Work closely with several engineering teams and business analysts to find new and smart ways of consolidating data and making use of it in order to make better models and ultimately better predictions.
- Be at the core of Klarna’s annual business planning and monthly forecast process.
- Be innovative, cooperative, collaborative, open and have a flexible mindset with critical thinking, being able to dive into analysis of forecasted numbers.
- Be curious and always look for improvements and best practices.
- Working experience of time-series modeling and data pipelines.
- An ability to bring ideas into production. Experience with Docker, Jenkins and Airflow is preferred.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Experience with and knowledge of Cloud platforms such as AWS or Google Cloud.
- Experience with AWS Batch, Lambda functions, EC2, and Step Functions.
- A degree from a university in a highly technically numerate subject (e.g. math, physics, engineering or economics/finance).
- Experience working in a commercial field such as e-commerce, retail or leading extended projects in these industries.
- Experience from and/or a strong interest in finance and financial modeling.
- Project management skills, being able to take a delivery end-to-end with high autonomy.
- Stakeholder management capabilities, being able to push progress on key dependency deliveries.
- Experience from working in google sheets and Qliksense.
Relocation: Unfortunately we cannot offer relocation for this role and can only consider candidates currently based in Sweden or Germany.
What we offer:
Diversity & Community With our diversity of skills, perspectives and backgrounds, we can create, innovate, and disrupt like no other. Diversity is part of who we are, and essential to our success.
Ownership & Impact Here, every voice matters. We’re organized into hundreds of small teams, each run like a start-up, focused on their own problem-space.
Trust & Collaboration Successes and failures are won together at Klarna in a melting pot of teams. Win, lose, and learn, we’re on this path together.
If you love what you do, you should love where you do it. We appreciate that everyone’s different and has their own preferences of where and how to work. We genuinely believe in the power of regular face-to-face interactions in building close connections with our teams, but we also strongly believe people can work effectively remotely. This means that combining both is the key to success.
At Klarna, You can choose between working from the office, remotely within your employment country, or even outside of it for up to 20 working days per year. Flex it up!
Challenges & Rewards We take a very Swedish approach to benefits. Support for parents, health and wellness perks—we’ve got you covered.
About Klarna Since 2005 Klarna has been on a mission to revolutionize the retail banking industry. With over 150 million global active users and 2 million transactions per day, Klarna is meeting the changing demands of consumers by saving them time and money while helping them be informed and in control. Over 450,000 global retail partners, including H&M, Saks, Sephora, Macys, IKEA, Expedia Group, and Nike have integrated Klarna's innovative technology to deliver a seamless shopping experience online and in-store. Klarna has over 6,000 employees and is active in 45 markets. For more information, visit Klarna.com
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