Sr Data Scientist
PayPal Inc.

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Fueled by a fundamental belief that having access to financial services creates opportunity, PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL) is committed to democratizing financial services and empowering people and businesses to join and thrive in the global economy. Our open digital payments platform gives PayPal's 392 million active account holders the confidence to connect and transact in new and powerful ways, whether they are online, on a mobile device, in an app, or in person. Through a combination of technological innovation and strategic partnerships, PayPal creates better ways to manage and move money, and offers choice and flexibility when sending payments, paying or getting paid. Available in more than 200 markets around the world, the PayPal platform, including Braintree, Venmo and Xoom, enables consumers and merchants to receive money in more than 100 currencies, withdraw funds in 56 currencies and hold balances in their PayPal accounts in 25 currencies.

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Job Description Summary:
Role supports the Collections related monitoring and strategy through active reporting, investigation, analysis and presentation of findings to our internal customers.

Job Description:

Specific Responsibilities
Develop data-driven decisions and insights to support our Collections business, monitor performance, and adjust priorities according to the dynamic world we operate in.
Analyze large volumes of internal and external data using common data science tools (SAS, SQL, R, Python, etc.) to deliver unique insights into relationships across a wide array of products, platforms, customers, merchants, and experiences.
Develop connections between business problems throughout the Collections domain and deliver analytic solutions to meet the most pressing demands
Communicate complicated analytic results in brief, concise formats tailored to a variety of audiences
Document, improve, and automate existing PayPal Collections reporting processes to reduce the burden of internal and external reporting requirements on all members of the PayPal Credit team
Manage and improve the process of data collection, ingestion, manipulation, and display for risk related reporting processes
Collaborate with all aspects of the PayPal Collections business including a broad range of partners to plan and deliver fully developed solutions for monitoring and reporting
Lead the planning, development, and delivery of analytic and reporting projects from start to finish
Functional Skills & Behaviors
Solid technical / data-mining skills and ability to work with large volumes of data; extract and manipulate large datasets using common tools such as Notebooks, SQL, SAS, Hadoop, or other programming/scripting languages (Python, Perl, R, etc.) to translate data into business decisions/results
Be data-driven and outcome-focused
Must have good business judgment with demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically
Must be an intuitive, organized analytical thinker, with the ability to perform detailed analysis
Takes personal ownership; Self-starter; Ability to drive projects with minimal guidance and focus on high impact work
Learns continuously; Seeks out knowledge, ideas and feedback.
Looks for opportunities to build owns skills, knowledge and expertise.
Comfortable with ambiguity and frequent context-switching in a fast-paced environment
Qualifications
Candidate must have proven experience in the ideation, research, discovery, development, implementation, and ongoing monitoring of quantitative solutions for consumer credit or small business credit.
Candidate must have 5+ years of experience in a lending related position
Well-formed foundation of education and work experience in Data Science and Risk Analysis, preferably in applied data science, statistics, mathematics, or computer science
Familiarity with data engineering, data management, data modelling, standard ETL techniques including extract, de-duping, cleansing, integration, and aggregation
Proven experience using common data science tools like R or Python to rapidly solve business problems, preferably with respect to a credit/lending risk organization
Demonstrated ability to influence critical business outcomes in a matrix based, global environment
Excellent verbal and written communication and collaboration skills to effectively communicate with both business and technical development teams
At a minimum, candidate must have a bachelor's degrees in a quantitative discipline (e.g. statistics, data science, computer science, engineering, operations research, or mathematics); preferably an advance degree.

Subsidiary:
PayPal

Travel Percent:
0

Primary Location:
Wilmington, Delaware, United States of America

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