One Credit Limited Job Vacancy for a Chief Data Officer

One Credit Limited is a registered consumer finance company in Nigeria. The company is a capex-light, technology enabled, provider of unsecured loans to salaried consumers in Nigeria.


One Credit Limited is recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Chief Data Officer

Location: Nigeria

Job Descriptions

• One Credit is one of Africa’s fastest growing and most innovative FinTech platforms. We are looking to dominate the lending space through technological innovation and pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial and fast-paced culture.
• We are looking for an entrepreneurial Chief Datas Officer to lead our data analytics team and build highly predictive scorecards that will catalyze innovative products and minimize risk.
• The CDO will be in charge of One Credit’s data analytics program, creating and optimizing One Credit’s credit scorecard, training & employee development, setting priorities, managing resources and assuring on-time delivery with outstanding quality

• Recruit and manage a team of data scientists and engineers that will be responsible for developing and optimizing models to increase customer acquisition, conversion and retention rates.
• Collaborate with the Sales & Software development departments to assess and recommend strategies and ideas that support company organizational needs.
• Translate complex data sets into business recommendations and actions for loan product development and collection strategies.
• Coordinate multiple, simultaneous implementation projects across different geographies and time zones

• University degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Information Systems or related engineering fields and 5+ years of experience in relevant industries
• Strong technical background in Programming, Database Technology and Data Visualization, Machine Learning and Big Data
• Financial services domain knowledge including expertise at the intersection of risk, finance and customer domains

• Strong analytical skills with previous experience working with large and complex data sets.
• Result-oriented team player with exceptional motivation and interpersonal skills
• Experience performing statistical analysis and modeling in R. Excel or any reporting/visualization software.
• Ideally you already acted as CDO/Co-Founder online/mobile consumer business and lead/shaped an agile technical organization

• Competitive salary with stock options, role preferably in Nigeria but not obligatory.