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In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.\n Get to Know the Team\nThe Grab Financial Services Analytics team supports the Financial Services product and business organisations, across Payments, Lending, Insurance, and Kios. As a Senior Data Scientist (Analytics), you will be part of the Lending tech family where we aim to be the best FinTech company in the region. Our team focuses on understanding user experiences and partners with Business, Product, Design, and Tech teams to achieve the right outcomes. We are necessary to product development, from understanding user journeys with UX designers, to developing hypotheses, through to post-rollout optimisation.\nGet to Know the Role\nYou will use data to understand user needs and be the de-facto Voice of the Customer (users, driver-partners, merchants, agents) across Lending's suite of products. You will use data to unveil insights to help scale our products. You will promote data-driven decision-making within GFin and partner with Product Managers, Business Owners, UX Designers, and Engineers to design analytical projects that inform the Product roadmap. You will provide expertise and produce data-driven hypotheses to solve important Product and Business problems, and guide our Financial Services strategies forward.\nYou will report into the Lending Analytics Manager and work onsite at our office in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia.\nThe Critical Tasks You Will Perform\nYou will partner with product, design, and engineering teams to obtain insights, design experiments, and guide important product decisions.\nYou will support strategic plans with data insights, performing deep-dives into user behaviour, segmented views and product efficacy.\nYou will provide tailored analysis for specific products and strategies, define critical business and product metrics, and make regular recommendations for continuous improvements.\nYou will design, measure, and recommend A/B tests and multivariate experiments, including layout optimisation, UI/UX efficacy, algorithm effectiveness, and API performance.\nYou will analyse clickstream and transactional data to uncover insights on user behaviour and guide product metrics. You will manage instrumentation for all feature releases within assigned tech families within GFin.\nYou will develop self-serve solutions for partners that are scalable and automated to handle a product environment. 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