**Data Scientist - Santa Ana, Costa Rica**Do your talents lie in simplifying and improving business processes? Are you ready to offer your skills in a global business that's committed to moving money for the better? Join Western Union as a Data Scientist.**Motivated by our values: purpose driven, globally minded, and trustworthy & respectful**We're a FinTech that's using insight from customers and colleagues worldwide to improve financial services for families, small businesses, multinational corporations, and non-profit organizations. We're a team of over 8,000 employees serving 200 countries and territories. We believe when money moves, better things happen.**Better requires process discipline and simplification**We are looking for someone who would excel at supporting our Data Science team. This role will focus on driving and supporting specific business growth initiatives at Western Union by utilizing efficient techniques to provide meaningful insights informing key business results. You will be partnering with resources from various internal Data teams to align on insights, recommendations, and steps forward.The role requires innovative systematic thinking, creative problem solving, and strong analytical skills. Most of your time will be spent working on solutions to critical problems, querying databases, and performing various analytic/statistical techniques. From a core technical standpoint, proficiency in SQL, data modeling, statistics (using R or Python), and excel would be the mínimal requirements for this role. You'll have the opportunity to demonstrate your knowledge and related hands-on experience for data analysis on a daily basis and will actively contribute to pushing for a data insight-driven organizational behavior.For this role, you will need to hold a bachelor's degree or be an advanced degree holder in STEM fields such as statistics, math, software engineering, computer science, or similar others. You will combine your education with at least 2 years of experience in similar roles managing data analytics, data modeling and interpretation, and delivering actionable insights.Relevant experience within the financial industry is preferred. You should demonstrate the ability to organize and manage multiple, time-sensitive projects. You should have excellent verbal and written communication skills to allow for seamless communication with your colleagues across the globe. You should be driven and inquisitive and above everything, carry a problem-solving attitude at your core.**Join us, and let's connect the world**We're a company on the move, and we want our people to grow and develop. You'll have plenty of opportunities to learn new skills and build a career, as well as a great salary and benefits package.LI-MM1
