Senior Data Scientist, Finance

Who We Are

Motive empowers the people who run physical operations with tools to make their work safer, more productive, and more profitable. For the first time ever, safety, operations and finance teams can manage their drivers, vehicles, equipment, and fleet related spend in a single system. Combined with industry leading AI, the Motive platform gives you complete visibility and control, and significantly reduces manual workloads by automating and simplifying tasks.

Motive serves more than 120,000 customers – from Fortune 500 enterprises to small businesses – across a wide range of industries, including transportation and logistics, construction, energy, field service, manufacturing, agriculture, food and beverage, retail, and the public sector.

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About The Role

As Data Scientist, Finance you’ll play a key role in helping our finance team, executives and GTM teams grow our business. Our team owns financial KPI reporting and key data intensive forecasts and analyses such as ASPs and demand by product line, billings and collections, churn and LTV. You’ll help us uplevel our forecasts moving beyond spreadsheet analysis and building models for our forecasts with your ML and Python expertise. We want someone who enjoys collaborating with a diverse group of stakeholders and is happy to work in any tool that solves the problem.

What You'll Do

• Evolve core financial analyses and forecasts using large data sets and machine learning to improve their accuracy
• Partner with the broader finance function and GTM teams to incorporate improved analyses and forecasts into overall financial plans
• Identify and build solutions for operational use cases in forecasting —e.g. further automation, system monitoring and alerting, outlier detection, etc.
• Build insightful and reliable dashboards to track performance of forecasts to actuals that will deliver insights to the whole company
• Communicate forecasts and analysis to stakeholders on a regular basis including root cause analysis

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years experience in data science
• Experience using advanced quantitative, statistical, and data science techniques to build forecasting models
• Experience with financial forecasting
• Expert skills in spreadsheets, SQL, & Python
• Experience with business intelligence tools (Tableau Preferred)
• A meticulous attention to detail
• Self-starter with the ability to self-project manage work
• Ability and experience explaining complex technical forecasts to business stakeholders

_Pay Transparency

Your compensation may be based on several factors, including education, work experience, and certifications. For certain roles, total compensation may include restricted stock units. Motive offers benefits including health, pharmacy, optical and dental care benefits, paid time off, sick time off, short term and long term disability coverage, life insurance as well as 401k contribution (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). Learn more about our benefits by visiting_ _Motive Perks & Benefits

_The Base Compensation Range For This Role Is

$124,000—$189,000 USD

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