Actuarial Data Scientist
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Hala Financing is looking for an Actuarial Data Scientist to join the Data team and support the development of our credit engine, risk models, and portfolio monitoring capabilities.
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Responsibilities
- Build, validate, and improve models for probability of default, credit scoring, affordability, delinquency prediction, and customer risk segmentation
- Analyze historical repayment behavior, first payment failure, delinquency trends, vintage curves, and default patterns
- Support enhancement of Hala Financing’s credit engine by identifying stronger predictive variables and decision rules
- Develop early warning indicators to detect customers likely to delay, default, or underperform
- Monitor portfolio performance across cohorts, channels, customer segments, loan products, tenure, ticket size, and repayment behavior
- Build dashboards and analytical frameworks to track approval quality, disbursement performance, default rates, roll rates, collections performance, and portfolio risk
- Run scenario analysis and stress testing to assess impact of growth, pricing, approval policy, and macroeconomic changes on portfolio performance
- Support management reporting for credit performance, investor reporting, and internal risk committees
- Use statistical and machine learning techniques to improve credit decisioning and default prediction
- Work with structured and alternative data sources including transaction data, merchant behavior, repayment history, business activity, and external data
- Design experiments and champion/challenger tests to evaluate credit policy changes
- Partner with Data Engineering to improve data quality, feature availability, model monitoring, and automation
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or related quantitative field; Master's degree preferred
- 3–6 years of experience in actuarial analytics, credit risk, lending analytics, banking, fintech, insurance, or financial modelling
- Strong understanding of probability of default, credit scoring, portfolio risk, delinquency, loss forecasting, and cohort/vintage analysis
- Strong skills in Python and SQL
- Experience with statistical modelling, machine learning, regression, classification models, decision trees, gradient boosting, model validation, and performance monitoring
- Ability to translate complex analytical findings into simple business recommendations
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non technical stakeholders
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Role Summary
- Hala Financing is looking for an Actuarial Data Scientist to join the Data team and support the development of our credit engine, risk models, and portfolio monitoring capabilities.
- The role will focus on predicting probability of default, improving credit decisioning, enhancing risk segmentation, and building data driven models that support responsible growth in SME lending.
- The ideal candidate combines actuarial thinking, credit risk modelling, machine learning, and strong business judgment.
Key Responsibilities
- Build, validate, and improve models for probability of default, credit scoring, affordability, delinquency prediction, and customer risk segmentation.
- Analyze historical repayment behavior, first payment failure, delinquency trends, vintage curves, and default patterns.
- Support the enhancement of Hala Financing’s credit engine by identifying stronger predictive variables and decision rules.
- Develop early warning indicators to detect customers likely to delay, default, or underperform.
- Monitor portfolio performance across cohorts, channels, customer segments, loan products, tenure, ticket size, and repayment behavior.
- Build dashboards and analytical frameworks to track approval quality, disbursement performance, default rates, roll rates, collections performance, and portfolio risk.
- Run scenario analysis and stress testing to assess the impact of growth, pricing, approval policy, and macroeconomic changes on portfolio performance.
- Support management reporting for credit performance, investor reporting, and internal risk committees.
- Use statistical and machine learning techniques to improve credit decisioning and default prediction.
- Work with structured and alternative data sources, including transaction data, merchant behavior, repayment history, business activity, and external data where available.
- Design experiments and champion/challenger tests to evaluate credit policy changes.
- Partner with Data Engineering to improve data quality, feature availability, model monitoring, and automation.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Actuarial Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Finance, or a related quantitative field; Master’s degree preferred.
- 3–6 years of experience in actuarial analytics, credit risk, lending analytics, banking, fintech, insurance, or financial modelling.
- Strong understanding of probability of default, credit scoring, portfolio risk, delinquency, loss forecasting, and cohort/vintage analysis.
- Strong skills in Python and SQL.
- Experience with statistical modelling, machine learning, regression, classification models, decision trees, gradient boosting, model validation, and performance monitoring.
- Ability to translate complex analytical findings into simple business recommendations.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with both technical and non technical stakeholders.
Key Success Measures
- Improved accuracy of default prediction and credit risk segmentation.
- Reduced first payment failure and early delinquency rates.
- Stronger credit engine decisioning and approval quality.
- Clear portfolio monitoring and early warning indicators.
- Better balance between loan growth, risk, profitability, and capital efficiency.
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