Junior Data Scientist

About the role

Pezesha, an embedded finance company providing credit solutions to MSMEs across Africa, is hiring a Junior Data Scientist for its Data Team in Nairobi. The role supports data analysis, reporting, data quality, experimentation and credit risk analytics, working alongside experienced data scientists and data engineers. It is an execution-focused learning opportunity in a fast-paced fintech environment.

Key responsibilities

• Data analysis and reporting: write SQL queries to extract, clean, transform and analyse data; run exploratory data analysis; support recurring business and portfolio reports and data requests from Credit, Product, Operations and Finance teams; validate metrics and investigate discrepancies.
• Credit and portfolio analytics: analyse loan repayment and customer behaviour, lending metrics (repayment rates, PAR, DPD, disbursements, collections, portfolio performance), customer segmentation, credit risk indicators and model performance, and contribute to credit scoring improvements.
• Insights and reporting: respond to data requests from cross-functional teams, prepare weekly and monthly reports for internal stakeholders and external lenders, and support ad-hoc data deep dives.
• Model experimentation support: help prepare datasets and evaluate machine learning and scorecard prototypes, and take part in feature engineering, validation testing and performance tracking of classification and credit scoring models.
• Documentation and best practices: maintain documentation for datasets, metrics, SQL queries, ETL workflows and dashboards, contribute SQL snippets, data dictionaries and ETL logic to a shared knowledge base, and follow data quality, QA and reproducibility standards.

To apply, candidates send their CV and cover letter by email to the company, using the position title as the subject line.