Senior Data Scientist - Risk Analytics (Contract, São Paulo)
First Help FinancialSão Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Posted May 7, 2026
Full Time
About the Company
First Help Financial is a fast-growing and culturally diverse company in the U.S. that provides auto loans to the underserved.
Job Description
First Help Financial is seeking a Senior Data Scientist - Risk Analytics to join their team. The role involves designing and developing risk models and scorecards across the credit lifecycle. The team is highly skilled and innovative, and the company is embarking on a new growth phase with multiple game-changing projects.
Requirements
- Design, develop, validate, and continuously enhance end‐to‐end risk models and scorecards
- Partner with Risk, Finance, Product, and Operations teams
- Evaluate and integrate new data sources, features, and modeling approaches
- Lead what‐if, stress testing, and scenario analyses
- Ensure models are interpretable, stable, and production‐ready
- Own the ongoing monitoring and performance tracking of models
Benefits
- Generous salaries
- Social activities
- Monthly lunches
- Robust employee recognition and talent development program
- Healthy work-life balance
- Career growth opportunities
