Data Science Analyst

OneMain Financial • Wilmington, DE

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Associate Data Science Analyst, you’ll develop the technical skills to build the machine learning systems that drive our company and produce great customer outcomes. You’ll get hands-on experience as you apply your talents, creativity, and passion to create innovative solutions to real-world data science use cases. No matter the projects, you’ll have the opportunity to explore, while learning from experts in consumer lending in a close-knit team-oriented environment. This role will provide exposure across multiple disciplines to accelerate your career growth.

Requirements

• Current post-graduate degree student in a quantitative discipline (Engineering, Data Science, Statistics, Biostatistics, Physics, Economics, Operations Research, or Computer Science)
• Outstanding communication skills, including the ability to explain technical topics and concepts to a non-technical audience.
• Proven experience (in an academic, athletic, volunteer, or employment context) working with teams of diverse individuals to deliver complex projects.
• Experience in use of open-source machine learning libraries (Python or R).
• Innovative and capable of developing creative solutions to complex, data-driven problems.

Nice To Haves

• Strong analytic, strategic thinking, communications, and leadership skills.
• Curiosity, creative problem solving, integrative business thinking, teamwork, and bias for action.
• Enthusiastic learners who want to tackle real-world challenges.

Responsibilities

• Apply diverse statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze a variety of datasets to solve complex, unstructured business problems.
• Actively contribute to our team’s vibrant culture through sharing knowledge, helping peers, and generally being a great person to work with.
• Develop creative technical solutions to improve the company’s decision making, the customer’s experience, and shareholder returns.
• Evaluate non-traditional data sources to see if they result in better underwriting decisions, saving our hard-working customers millions in interest payments.
• Mine the “digital exhaust” of our marketing campaigns to identify new populations who would benefit from our products.
• Partner with our operations teams to surface data insights that will allow our thousands of branch staff to better serve our customers.

Benefits

• Health and wellbeing options including medical, prescription, dental, vision, hearing, accident, hospital indemnity, and life insurances
• Up to 4% matching 401(k)
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (10% share discount)
• Tuition reimbursement
• Paid time off (15 days vacation per year)
• Paid sick leave as determined by state or local ordinance, prorated based on start date
• Paid holidays (11 days per year, based on start date)
• Paid volunteer time (3 days per year, prorated based on start date)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level