Uniper

(Senior) Data Scientist in Finance (f/m/d)

Uniper · Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Utilities · 5,001-10,000 employees

Jul 27
Senior (5-10 yrs) Full-time Germany
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About the role

Design and develop data-driven solutions using financial and transactional data to support decision-making and automate regulatory tasks. Act as an AI ambassador by coaching colleagues and overseeing the full lifecycle of data science initiatives from ideation to production.

What they look for

Data Science Machine Learning Natural Language Processing LLMs Statistics Financial Controlling Accounting Data Architecture Azure Snowflake Databricks SAP Python Communication Stakeholder Management

Requirements

Requires 5 to 7 years of experience in a data science role within accounting, controlling, or financial services. Candidates must hold a Master's degree in a quantitative field and possess strong skills in statistics, machine learning, and modern data stacks.

Benefits

Company pension Health related benefits Flexible working arrangements Home office equipment Sabbaticals Part-time possibilities Family service Car and bike leasing E-car charging stations Flu vaccination Preventive health services Employee assistance program Lifelong training Coaching

Full description

Our Data Science Department is looking for You!

We are Uniper

At Uniper, we are pro-actively transforming the world of energy whilst at the same time ensuring security of energy supply. As an internationally operating company, we work in very diverse teams with the greatest possible working time flexibility for our employees. Our corporate culture is characterized by equal opportunities, mutual appreciation, and respect. With us, you will be able to develop new business models, work on technological solutions for a modern, sustainable, and future-oriented energy supply as well as pro-actively help to shape changes. Interested? Then we will look forward to meeting you!

Your responsibilities

Join our Finance Information Excellence (FIE) team. Our mission is to build and enable a forward-looking Finance organization by combining advanced technology and Data Science with the expertise of our Finance experts in Accounting, Controlling, Internal Controls, Financial Services and IT. Join us in shaping this transformative journey!

  • Innovation: Design and develop data-driven solutions using transactional data, financial statements, and unstructured information.
  • Deploy AI at Scale: Apply advanced analytics, Machine Learning, and NLP (including LLMs) to support high-stakes decision-making and automate regulatory tasks.
  • Collaboration: work closely with Finance experts and stakeholders across Finance functions to implement impactful solutions in close collaboration with our FIE experts and IT teams
  • End-to-End oversight: accompany the full lifecycle of our data science initiatives from ideation to a live production environment.
  • Community & Coaching: Act as an ambassador for AI within Uniper, training colleagues and helping business teams leverage advanced tools in their daily operations and engage with our AI and digitization communities
  • Modern Ecosystem: Work within a cloud environment featuring MS Azure, Snowflake, Databricks and SAP complemented by modern productivity tools (e.g., Microsoft 365 and Github- Copilot) with a modern workspace.

Your profile

  • Professional experience: 5 to 7 years of experience in a data science delivery role in the context of accounting, controlling, or financial services
  • Domain Knowledge: You understand the "language of business". Experience in Accounting or Financial Controlling will help you.
  • Human-Centric: strong customer focus, combining empathy with the ability to translate technical complexity for non-technical stakeholders
  • Data Science Expertise: A strong track record in Statistics, Machine Learning or Natural Language Processing (experience using LLMs for regulatory tasks is a significant advantage)
  • Data Architecture: Familiarity with modern data stacks like Databricks, Snowflake, and Azure cloud services. Experience with BI tools or creating user-facing frontends for quantitative tasks is a plus.
  • Education: Master’s degree in computer science, Operations Research, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related quantitative field.
  • Communication: Fluent in English and German languages
  • Growth mindset with openness to new technologies and a willingness to continuously develop relevant skills and capabilities

Your benefits

At Uniper, we not only reward our employees with attractive salaries, an excellent company pension and health related benefits for their hard work and dedication to shaping the future energy transition. You can also expect a supportive working culture that offers a wide range of creative and innovative ideas. We enable various flexible working arrangements, whilst also supporting with home office equipment.

Through regular training and workshops, together we work towards visualising yourself in our company as if it were your own. We support you in highlighting your individual potential, achieving your personal goals, and reaching your ambitions. We invite you to become part of our diverse company with international colleagues from more than 80 countries. As an employer, Uniper has committed itself to providing special support to certain areas:

Work-Life-Balance / New Normal:

  • Choosing how, where, and when to work in accordance with your team and the requirements of your job
  • Modern and ergonomic equipment for your workplace (home & office)
  • Support to balance private life and work: Sabbaticals, part-time possibilities, family service

Mobility:

  • Car and bike leasing offer (deferred compensation)
  • E-car charging stations at almost all Uniper locations

Health offers:

  • Flu vaccination
  • Preventive health services
  • Employee assistance program

Company pension:

  • Employer-funded contributions to a modern pension system
  • Possibility of self-funded contributions with employer-funded matching

Trainings:

  • Lifelong training
  • Coaching

Our employees are the reason for our success. Therefore, you will find many other benefits at the local level to help you reach your potential. Energy evolutionary wanted!

Your contact

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

career@uniper.energy

Attention! Please apply via the button in this portal. Application documents that reach us by post will not be returned and, like those we receive by e-mail, can unfortunately not be considered!

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As an employer, Uniper is committed to diversity and equal opportunities. Therefore, we encourage applications from suitably qualified individuals whose capabilities match the role requirements regardless of gender, origin, disability, age, religion, ideology, sexual identity or marital status. We live inclusion and support flexible working.