Financial Data Scientist

At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive.   We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One. 

As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other. 

Job Description

The Financial Data Scientist provides advanced financial and analytical support through mathematical and statistical modeling, forecasting, and data-driven insights. This role leverages strong mathematical, statistical, and programming skills to analyze historical company performance as well as model and forecast future results.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

- Develop, maintain, and enhance financial models, including forecasting, scenario analysis, and sensitivity analysis

- Apply time series modeling techniques to support revenue, expense, pricing, and volume forecasting

- Analyze large and complex datasets using SQL and Python to identify trends, risks, and performance drivers

- Design, automate, and maintain repeatable analytics and reporting solutions

- Partner with finance leadership and business stakeholders to translate analytical results into actionable insights

- Support budgeting, planning, and performance management processes with rigorous quantitative analysis

- Validate data accuracy and resolve data quality issues across multiple financial and operational systems

- Prepare clear, concise management presentations and written summaries explaining assumptions, methodology, and results

Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, computer science, engineering or applied mathematics, or equivalent work experience
- Six to eight years of relevant experience

Preferred Skills/Experience

- Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline (Applied Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, etc.)

- Experience with time series analysis and forecasting techniques

- Advanced Excel skills

- Familiarity with version control and reproducible coding and analytics workflows

- Experience in credit card payment processing
- Strong analytic skills with the ability to extract, collect, organize, analyze and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets
- Experience in analytics, advanced analytics/statistics, predictive modeling, machine learning, data visualization
- Understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
- Experience in python/R/SAS/SQL for data extraction, data mining, and predictive analytics
- Demonstrated project management skills
- Effective interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills

Location expectations 
This role requires working from a U.S. Bank location three (3) or more days per week.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.

Benefits: 

Our approach to benefits and total rewards considers our team members’ whole selves and what may be needed to thrive in and outside work. That's why our benefits are designed to help you and your family boost your health, protect your financial security and give you peace of mind. Our benefits include the following:

• Healthcare (medical, dental, vision)

• Basic term and optional term life insurance

• Short-term and long-term disability

• Pregnancy disability and parental leave

• 401(k) and employer-funded retirement plan

• Paid vacation (from two to five weeks depending on salary grade and tenure)

• Up to 11 paid holid