Internal Audit - New York - Associate, Data Analytics - 3765660

Goldman Sachs • New York, NY

8h • Onsite

About The Position

This position is for an Associate, Data Analytics with Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC in New York, New York. The role involves executing on Data Analytics strategy within audit responsibilities, including risk assessment, audit planning, creating reusable tools, and providing innovative solutions to complex problems. The Associate will partner with audit teams to identify business risks, facilitate strategic data sourcing, and develop solutions to enhance audit testing efficiency. They will also cultivate data analytics best practices through communication and training sessions with global audit teams, develop high-quality data analytics reporting and automation using Python, SQL, and Tableau, and grow subject matter expertise in cross-divisional auditable areas like Compliance & Legal and Risk audit. Key tasks include creating Continuous Monitoring reporting for quarterly check-ins between auditors and stakeholders, ensuring excellent code quality in production by performing thorough code reviews and adhering to engineering best practices, discovering and onboarding datasets from various firm databases, and providing analysis and design strategies for strategic projects, driving end-to-end project delivery.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (U.S. or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Data Analytics, Information Technology, Industrial Engineering, Operations Research, or a related field and three (3) years of experience in the job offered or in a related role.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with statistics concepts, including descriptive statistics, data distribution models, Time Series Analysis, correlation, and regression, and its application to data.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with programming languages, such as Python, Java, or C++.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with visualization tools, such as Tableau or Qlik.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with text analytics and NLP using python.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with machine learning algorithms and exposure to supervised and unsupervised learning techniques including Linear/Logistic Regression, SVM, Random Forest and Boosting, Clustering, and Patterns Recognition.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with utilizing SQL to perform ad-hoc analysis for audit testing, such as determining a population or re-performance.
• Prior work experience must include three (3) years of experience with engineering methodologies (Git, CI/CD, Agile) and SDLC best practices.

Responsibilities

• Execute on Data Analytics strategy within the context of audit responsibilities, such as risk assessment, audit planning, creation of reusable tools and providing innovative solutions to complex problems.
• Partner with audit teams to identify risks associated with businesses and facilitate strategic data sourcing and develop innovative solutions to increase efficiency and effectiveness of audit testing.
• Cultivate data analytics best practices and understandings through communication and trainings sessions with global audit teams.
• Utilize Python, SQL, and Tableau to develop high quality data analytics reporting and automation to improve operational efficiency and reduce manual audit testing.
• Grow subject matter expertise in cross-divisional auditable areas, such as Compliance & Legal and Risk audit.
• Create Continuous Monitoring reporting for quarterly check-ins between auditors and stakeholders.
• Ensure excellent code quality in production, by performing high-quality and thorough code review and adhering to engineering best practices.
• Discover and assist in the on-boarding of datasets from across the firm, sourced from multiple cloud or on-prem databases.
• Provide analysis, design strategies for strategic projects and drive end-to-end project delivery.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees