Data Scientist, FP&A

CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment.

We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better.

As a Data Scientist on our Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team, you'll have the unique opportunity to influence strategic decisions through your modeling and analysis of financial data. You'll collaborate with various teams, leveraging advanced technologies like AI and machine learning to innovate and improve our financial processes. This role offers continuous learning in a dynamic financial landscape, making it both challenging and rewarding.

What You’ll Do

• Develop the data science practice within the FP&A team and Finance organization, with a focus on expense and revenue forecast modeling and analysis.
• Act as the primary contact for FP&A data needs, defining data requirements to ensure completeness, accuracy, and enrichment of forecasts.
• Measure the performance of business initiatives through programmatic data analysis and KPI tracking, providing insights into key drivers and related narrative.
• Develop and maintain analytical tools and dashboards, leveraging new technologies and architectures with a focus on continuous improvement.
• Serve as the primary data scientist for machine learning and AI-generated forecasts, collaborating with data and systems architects and the head of FP&A.
• Enable scenario analysis to simulate various business scenarios and their financial impacts to better inform forecasting strategies.
• Work with the FP&A team to leverage generative AI for improved variance analysis, reporting workflows, and forecasting.
• Evaluate and recommend improvements to the forecasting framework, identifying specific enhancements to data schemas and pipelines to support analytical objectives.
• Partner with data scientists and data engineers across teams to ensure collaboration and consistency in applying best practices
• Stay current with the latest trends and advancements in data science to continuously improve processes and techniques
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or related field
• Proficiency in data analysis tools and languages (e.g., SQL and Python)
• Experience with data visualization tools preferred (e.g., Tableau, PowerBI)
• Strong understanding of data warehousing and ETL techniques
• Experience with machine learning techniques
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a customer-oriented mindset, to effectively work with cross-functional teams.
• Eagerness to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment
  
  

Compensation: Salary Range: 175k - 225k, plus a discretionary bonus. The discretionary bonus will be dependent upon the individuals skills, experience, qualifications, and firm performance

Our Benefits

We strongly believe in the well-being of our employees and their families so we offer outstanding benefits to support you both professionally and personally. These benefits include generous medical coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch (plus healthy snacks, of course), wellness reimbursement, quarterly recharge days, and a variety of other benefits focused on providing the best employee experience.

(Disclaimer: Interns and Contractors are not eligible for benefits at CTC)

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

At CTC, we aim to cultivate a workplace that celebrates diversity and each person feels included, engaged and empowered. Where each of us feels we belong. We are committed to having a diverse workforce and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. CTC does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform crucial job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.

If you have a disability and believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to apply for a position, please contact us at info@chicagotrading.com. Note that emails sent to this email account for non-disability related issues, such as following up on an application, will not receive a response.