Bueno Finance - Data Scientist - IIT/NIT/BITS

Role: Data Scientist

Company: Bueno Gig Credit Building Technologies Private Limited

Location: Gurgaon

About the Company:

Bueno Gig Credit Building Technologies Private Limited ("Bueno Finance") was founded in October-2019 to primarily focus on building a financial services platform for the blue-collar segment in India. Our purpose is to connect Blue Collar workers to the mainstream financial services sector. Our vision is to use data and AI/ML models to offer and improve our products. We are backed by investors such as Y Combinator, Goat Capital, Justin Mateen, Olive Tree Capital, and Good Water Capital.

Company Website: (https://buenofinance.in/)

Founders:

Sandeep Arora (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeep-arora-065bb519/) has 11+ years of experience in leading industry and data analytics. Sandeep is an experienced executive with a background in consumer lending across India and the US markets. He has held various roles in Credit Acquisition, Business Strategy, Collections, and Analytics.

In his last role, he served as Sr Manager, Product & Marketing Analytics at Swiggy. Prior to Swiggy, Sandeep has worked with Capital One, Citibank, and Encore Capital. He is a B.Tech graduate from IIT Delhi (2008 batch).

Saurav Gandhi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/saurav-gandhi-83171a16/) is an experienced Fintech professional with 10+ years of experience in consumer lending and credit cards business across India and global markets. He has expertise in credit risk management, credit underwriting, data analytics, alternate data, and AI/ML modeling.

In his last role, he served as a Director - Credit Risk and Data Analytics - PayU (Global), where he helped in managing data analytics and credit risk for various products across global markets. Prior to PayU, Saurav worked with Citibank, PwC, and American Express. He is an MBA graduate from MDI Gurgaon (2011 batch).

About the job

We are looking to hire a Data Scientist, who wants to be a part of a fabulous Growth story at Bueno Finance (https://buenofinance.in/)

Responsibilities

- Build machine learning models & credit strategy for the life cycle of consumer lending - Underwriting/LCM/Collections

- Setup scalable, efficient, automated processes for model development, validation, implementation & monitoring

- Provide actionable data-driven recommendations to stakeholders' business questions

- Perform ad hoc analysis for business teams, and leadership and help them build business cases and models to quantify new opportunities, using data and business judgment.

- Liaison with the tech team to build the fully automated best fintech products

Must Have Skills: -

1. 1+ years of experience in Data Science/Predictive Analytics

2. Industry experience with Python/R & SQL is necessary

3. Strong background in statistical concepts and calculations (Descriptive & Inferential Statistics)

4. Exposure to Supervised and Unsupervised Modelling techniques with application on the business/real-life problems.

5. Excellent critical thinking skills, combined with the ability to present your beliefs clearly, compellingly verbally, and in written form

6. Exceptional problem-solving skills

7. Any exposure to the Fintech industry is a plus

Desired Profile

- B.E/B.Tech /MBA from a Tier-1 college would be an added advantage

So what do we offer?

- A Competitive salary, including benefits.

- Exceptional projects

- Directly work with industry experts that love finding ways of making things better, faster, stronger

- Interesting growth prospects

Location - Gurgaon (Hybrid - work from office and remote)

Useful Links

https://yourstory.com/2021/03/fintech-startup-bueno-finance-blue-collar-workers

https://inc42.com/buzz/y-combinators-winter-batch-21-list-these-14-indian-startups-make-it-to-the-list/