Description
About Us
The AF Group is the UK’s largest agricultural buying co-operative, owned by and run for the benefit of our farming Members. We help Members save time and money by consolidating orders, negotiating competitive pricing, and managing invoicing and payments with suppliers.
With increasing financial pressures in the agricultural sector, proactive risk management has never been more important.
The Opportunity
We’re seeking a data science intern to help us understand and mitigate our financial exposure, particularly in our supplier direct purchasing channel – where goods are collected by Members directly from suppliers, and we only learn of the transaction once invoiced.
You’ll work with a wide range of internal and external data, from historical procurement and payment records to third-party risk scoring tools like CreditSafe. This internship is ideal for someone passionate about data-driven decision-making and financial risk analysis who wants to make a tangible impact in a purpose-led organisation.
Key Responsibilities
- Analyse Member procurement and payment behaviour to identify patterns
- associated with credit risk.
- Develop models to predict risk of default – especially for unmonitored supplier direct transactions.
- Evaluate and integrate third-party risk data (e.g. CreditSafe scores) with internal datasets.
- Recommend and test risk thresholds, early warning indicators, and intervention strategies.
- Visualise insights and support the development of practical tools to aid decision-making by our finance and procurement teams.
- Present findings and actionable recommendations to stakeholders, including senior leadership.