Senior Data Scientist - Forecasting

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In joining Adobe's Worldwide Digital Media Finance organization, you will have the opportunity to serve as a Sr. Data Scientist embedded in our FPA& team within the largest business unit at Adobe ($17.5B Revenue). This role primarily focuses on automating repetitive forecasting tasks using data science x FP&A best practices like time series forecasting and human-in-the-loop workflows.

The ideal candidate for this role can both ingest, document, and refine requirements from finance partners as well as program end to end forecasting solutions. We're looking for somebody who can partner effectively, code efficiently, and present methodologies and results to anybody from analysts up through SVPs. You will work with people and teams both local and remote as well as engage in processes with worldwide teams in a matrixed organization.

• Build, improve and maintain sophisticated ARR time series based forecasting models to boost accuracy and provide time savings for finance partners
• Work with finance partners to comprehensively understand the problems that need to be solved and design and implement forecasting solutions
• Present proposed methodologies and results to finance partners at various levels - analyst through SVP
• Figuring out how best to incorporate human-in-the-loop approaches to automated forecasts to improve accuracy and explainability
• Serve as finance data science evangelist, seeking out additional high impact opportunities for data science within FP&A and designing and implementing solutions there
• Collaborate on dashboard creation to increase visibility of

• Deep experience in time series modelling - particularly in building, deploying, and explaining forecasting models
• Excellent problem-solving skills. Candidate can cut to the heart of and articulate issues, scope and select recommended solutions, and implement them with minimal guidance
• Strong communication skills. Candidate can clearly, succinctly, and constructively communicate with partners to achieve our organization's many goals.
• Exceptional presentation skills - can explain complex modelling methodologies and processes to non-technical audiences
• Evangelist: Excited to apply data science techniques to traditional FP&A problems and grow their responsibilities over time
• Familiar with common financial concepts like ARR and ARPU
• Intermediate/Advance Python programming skills
• Familiarity with data pipelining, within Databricks preferred
• Deep prior experience doing fully automated time series forecasting using Python

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