Data Solutions Advisor

Comcast • Philadelphia, PA

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About The Position

Comcast brings together the best in media and technology. We drive innovation to create the world's best entertainment and online experiences. As a Fortune 50 leader, we set the pace in a variety of innovative and fascinating businesses and create career opportunities across a wide range of locations and disciplines. We are at the forefront of change and move at an amazing pace, thanks to our remarkable people, who bring cutting-edge products and services to life for millions of customers every day. If you share in our passion for teamwork, our vision to revolutionize industries and our goal to lead the future in media and technology, we want you to fast-forward your career at Comcast. Job Summary The Data Solutions Advisor plays a leading role in driving best practices supporting Comcast Global Audit (CGA) by identifying, monitoring, and mitigating risk through the integration of advanced data analytics, engineering, automation, and business analysis. This role plays a critical part contributing to audit engagements in shaping audit scope areas by generating innovative insights and scalable data solutions, as well as overseeing team execution. As part of CGA team, the Data Solutions Advisor is responsible for: Analyzing complex business challenges to inform audit planning and execution Developing and maintaining standard and non-standard data products and reporting deliverables Designing and implementing scalable data solutions to support audit objectives Identifying and executing automation opportunities to enhance audit efficiency and effectiveness Overseeing other team members in driving consistency across data deliverables Proactively identifying improvement areas that can lead to increased standardization and automation, strategically aligning with audit senior leaders on ways to improve and streamline audit testing. This role offers broad exposure to the Comcast Corporation through the audit process and provides opportunities to influence risk management strategies through data-driven insights.

Requirements

• Demonstrates the ability to quickly grasp complex subject matter and apply strong analytical skills and business knowledge to assessing processes, risks, and controls.
• Stays current on data analytics trends (e.g., new tools, statistical methods, visualization techniques) and emerging technologies that impact audit work (e.g., AI, Blockchain, RPA).
• Performs effectively as a project leader across engagements.
• Shows flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks, allocating/re-allocating work across engagement team members, or stepping in to support execution, as appropriate.
• Works with discretion applying sound judgment regarding work details on assignments of a varied and difficult nature while maintaining personal and broader team accountability and ownership.
• Utilizes creative thinking, individual initiative, and flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks.
• Exhibits willingness to tackle new areas and challenging topics.
• Demonstrates the ability to work in a complex, dynamic, and fast-paced environment.
• Assists less experienced team members in understanding and executing data analytics and automation activities.
• Provide ongoing feedback and follow-up to less experienced team members on work completion and performance, as well as ensuring timely delivery of data deliverables for audit engagements.
• Assists less experienced team members in ensuring data deliverables supporting audit engagements are designed with shared logic and developed consistent, accurate, and scalable.
• Provides coaching, guidance, and development on interactions with business management and stakeholders.
• Motivates engagement team to deliver high quality work on time.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement to team activities, tools, and training.
• Transparently keeps CGA management informed of findings / status / important issues as they arise.
• Acts in accordance with stated CGA and company policies and practices, and maintains the highest degree of integrity in all activities and interactions.
• Displays regular, consistent, and punctual attendance.
• Able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s), as necessary.
• Out-of-town travel may be required at up to approximately 20%.

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates solid project management skills for data or automation related projects, including developing project plans and budgets, scheduling deliverables across CGA teams, executing per plan, and messaging status/issues to management.
• Discusses audit engagement objectives with CGA team members and recommends data analytics approaches to support audit goals.
• Extracts, manipulates, transforms, models, visualizes, and analyzes accurate, relevant, timely, and cohesive data to support the audit lifecycle.
• Identifies audit scope areas that can be automated or repeated through data analytics and leads the project efforts to schedule and implement, aligning key stakeholders on the change impacts.
• Ensures all data is secure and follows company policies regarding data classification.
• Analyzes data to assess compliance with established policies/procedures, best practices, US GAAP, and legal/governmental requirements.
• Applies analytical models (e.g., regression, simulation, statistical) to audit scope areas to identify outliers, trends, and projections.
• Uses data concepts, tools, and programming techniques including SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Tableau, AWS, MS SQL Server, Oracle BI, Teradata, Databricks, Alteryx, Spark, Python, and R to perform ETL and data analysis activities.
• Develops process flows, prototypes, and requirements documentation to accelerate stakeholder understanding and guide solution development.
• Creates, documents, and executes support process steps and test procedures to ensure data deliverables are accurate and sustainable.
• Facilitates discussions that lead to decision-making throughout the lifecycle of creating and enhancing data solutions.
• Prepares clear and well-organized analysis workpapers, documenting root-cause (as applicable), work performed, findings, and recommendations.
• Creates graphical reports and executive presentations to effectively summarize analysis and findings.
• Manages the activities of Data or Automation team members and keeps the team on track to complete assignments.
• Accountable for and reviews team workpapers, presentations, and other documentation to ensure they are clear, complete, and well-organized.
• Consistently exercises independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Assists with managing, scheduling, monitoring, and maintaining automated processes in production.
• Supports department objectives and performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

Benefits

• We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most.
• That's why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality—to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.
• Please visit the benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

What This Job Offers

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