Junior Data Scientist

Pezesha, has created a holistic financial marketplace for MSMEs. By offering lending, financial education, and debt counselling to borrowers, plus a proprietary credit scoring system to vet MSMEs without a credit history, derisking lending to SMEs. Lower Risks bring commercial banks and capital providers onto Pezesha platform. As a collaborative structure, Pezesha is helping to tackle the $19 Billion financing gap for SMEs. Pezesha is led by a highly experienced and passionate local team with more than 10 years local and international experience in fin-tech, management of growth and technology companies, and unparalleled local market knowledge and reach.

Junior Data Scientist

Role Overview

• As a Junior Data Scientist, you will support the Data Team in turning raw data into actionable insights that inform credit, product, operations, and business decisions. You will work on real business problems involving customer behavior, lending performance, transaction data, credit risk, and operational analytics. You will also have opportunities to contribute to machine learning and credit-scoring projects under the guidance of senior members of the team. The ideal candidate is curious, analytical, comfortable working with data, and eager to learn.

Core Responsibilities

Data Analysis & Reporting

• Write SQL queries to extract, clean, transform and analyze data.

• Support the preparation of recurring business and portfolio reports.

• Conduct exploratory data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and anomalies.

• Support data requests from Credit, Product, Operations, Finance, and other teams.

• Help validate reported metrics and investigate discrepancies in data.

Credit  & Portfolio  Analytics