Data Scientist - FP&A

Job description

About the Role We’re seeking a driven Data Scientist to join our FP&A team - someone who’s eager to work directly with senior leadership and bring predictive modelling, experimentation, and applied AI into a team that already understands the business deeply. This is a high-impact role that offers real visibility and room to grow. Now a delisted, growth-equity backed business, OrderYOYO is entering an exciting new chapter – a clear testament to our bold growth ambitions and the fast paced, high-impact environment we are building. In this role, you’ll gain broad exposure across the business by collaborating with Management, Commercial teams, Tech, and the Data Platform team. You’ll help move the organisation from “what happened” to “what will happen” - translating business questions into statistical or ML problems, building and validating models, and delivering outputs that plug into the day-to-day work. As you grow, you’ll have the freedom to shape your path based on your strengths and interests. Here’s a taste of what you’ll be doing: • Build, validate, and explain predictive models (classification, regression, time-series forecasting, cohort and churn analysis) that connect directly to a business process. • Apply NLP and LLMs to accelerate analytical workflows and unlock new capabilities - prompting, fine-tuning, and deploying language models where they sharpen the answer to a commercial question. • Deliver model outputs in a consumable format, building and enhancing Power BI reports on our Microsoft Fabric data platform for management and internal stakeholders. • Design and analyse commercial experiments (A/B tests, hypothesis-driven investigations, causal inference) to test what works before scaling. • Assist with scenario analysis to help inform strategic decisions made at the leadership level. What We Are Looking For In You: • 1+ years of experience with data science, advanced analytics, or an analytics engineering role - ideally in a SaaS, marketplace, or subscription business. • Strong Python skills (pandas, scikit-learn, XGBoost). Able to build, validate, and interpret classification and regression models. • Applied NLP and LLM experience. Comfortable prompting, training, and deploying language models to solve real problems. • Experience building predictive models that were actually used in production or by business stakeholders - not just academic exercises. • Structured problem-solving. Can take an open question and decompose it into a testable hypothesis or a well-scoped modelling problem. Why Join Us? • Direct exposure to decision-making at the highest level and learn how business challenges are tackled at the top level. • Work in a supportive, team-first culture where we help each other succeed. • Expect personal development plans and ongoing training tailored to your growth. • A dynamic, supportive environment where critical thinking is encouraged and your voice matters. • Be part of a high-growth journey in a growth equity-backed company, where ambition meets opportunity - and your impact truly matters. Great to Have (But Not Required) • Deeper ML & AI intuition - e.g. cross-validation strategy, the bias-variance tradeoff, regularization, gradient-based optimization, model calibration, SHAP-based explainability, and RAG vs. fine-tuning for LLM work. • Exposure to Power BI, DAX, and/or Power Query. • Experience or interest in working on cross-functional projects involving Tech/Product, Operations, Sales and Marketing. • Working knowledge of SQL and comfort pulling data directly from a data warehouse (Snowflake, BigQuery, or similar). What we do at OrderYOYO OrderYOYO is a provider of white-label online ordering, payment, marketing, and POS software solutions to independent local takeaway restaurants. We are ensuring that small to medium-sized restaurants and chains are not subjected to lofty commissions and giving the restaurant the ownership of their success. Who we are at OrderYOYO Company culture is at the forefront of our minds creating an enjoyable, safe working environment where employee personal expression is supported. We are one team here at OrderYOYO and strive to help others succeed. Personal development and training plans are a key part of your journey within OrderYOYO, helping you be the best you can be by providing consistent and ongoing training for all aspects of the business. Our values (Passion, Action, Compassion, One team) are what makes us who we are and will be embedded in your day-to-day no matter what area of the business you work in. Please note interviews for this role will be conducted in September