Data Analyst - Internship

The hiring company is a specialist private credit platform providing senior secured lending to UK businesses. Built on a proprietary origination infrastructure developed over nearly a decade and using an AI-powered credit grading and pricing engine, the team has originated in excess of £2bn of lending. The business is about to start work on the construction of a proprietary credit risk model to underpin lending decisions and pricing for loans. To support the project, we are looking to take on an intern for a period of 8-10 weeks, 2-3 days per week starting ASAP. This opportunity would be ideal for a recent graduate from a Data Science, Maths + Computer Science, or similar degree who is looking to apply what they learnt at university in the real world. You will help with: ·      data cleansing ·      exploratory, descriptive analysis ·      segmentation of the population ·      feature engineering ·      outlier identification and treatment ·      predictive modelling using logistic regression and decision tree-based algorithms ·      fine tuning ·      testing and explaining the final model This is an opportunity to work with a real-world dataset containing millions of data points and variables, alongside and under the guidance of leaders with decades of experience in this area, resulting in a model which will facilitate the lending of hundreds of millions of pounds to growing businesses while keeping default rates low.