New Value Solutions (NVS), a national IT consulting firm, is seeking an experienced Senior Data Scientist / Predictive Analytics Lead to support a major Canadian airline on a Finance initiative focused on developing a net-new predictive cost model. The Senior Data Scientist will lead the technical modelling workstream and work closely with Finance, Data Science, Engineering, and business stakeholders to develop forecasting, profitability planning, scenario modelling, and what-if analysis capabilities using Python and advanced analytics.Responsibilities: Lead the design and development of a new predictive cost model supporting financial forecasting and profitability planning.Work with Finance and business stakeholders to understand cost drivers, forecasting requirements, assumptions, and analytical objectives.Analyze large and complex financial, operational, and business datasets to identify relationships, trends, and predictive variables.Develop predictive models using Python and appropriate statistical and machine learning techniques.Perform exploratory data analysis, feature engineering, model selection,



training, testing, and validation.Develop scenario modelling and what-if analysis capabilities to support commercial and financial decision-making.Evaluate model performance using appropriate statistical and machine learning metrics.Identify model limitations, assumptions, risks, and areas requiring additional data or refinement.Work closely with data engineers to define data requirements and ensure modelling datasets are complete, accurate, and fit for purpose.Support data discovery, cleansing, preparation, and analytical data-readiness activities.Translate complex analytical results into transparent business insights for Finance and executive stakeholders.Develop repeatable, maintainable, and well-documented analytical processes.Support model operationalization and integration into the client’s broader analytics environment.Contribute to technical documentation, model methodology, business rules, data definitions, and knowledge-

📌 Senior Data Scientist (Winnipeg)
🏢 New Value Solutions Group
📍 Winnipeg