Deputy Director, Data Intelligence Group

City of New York • New York City, NY

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About The Position

The NYC Department of Finance (DOF) administers the city’s tax revenue laws and aims to do so fairly, efficiently, and transparently while encouraging compliance and providing customer service. Its Tax Policy & Data Analytics Division analyzes tax policies and legislation, evaluates revenue and distributional impacts, monitors tax and parking revenues, and advises department and city leadership on revenue and budget matters. The division also conducts modeling and data mining for DOF’s Audit Division and prepares tax policy research and public reports.

The Deputy Director will serve in the Data Intelligence Group and report to the Senior Director. The role assists with supervising analytical work to identify audit-worthy tax returns and review data quality and integrity. It also supports the development and implementation of tax models, produces and evaluates model reports, responds to research and analytics requests, reviews tax return adjustments, and develops and maintains SAS programs and datasets. The work involves understanding complex tax laws and data sources to identify potential underreporting and businesses that have not met filing requirements.

This position may be eligible for remote work up to two days per week under the applicable Remote Work Pilot Program. It requires access to Federal Tax Information and a background investigation; passing that investigation is a condition of employment. Applicants must be permanent in the Administrative Staff Analyst civil service title or in a comparable civil service title eligible for a 6.1.9 title change, and must provide their employee identification number and permanent civil service title when applying.

Requirements

• Must be permanent in the Administrative Staff Analyst civil service title or permanent in a comparable civil service title eligible for a 6.1.9 title change.
• Must include an employee identification number (EIN) with the application and identify the applicant’s permanent civil service title in the cover letter.
• Must pass the Federal Tax Information (FTI) background investigation as a condition of employment.
• Meet one of the stated Administrative Staff Analyst qualification pathways: a qualifying master’s or Juris Doctor degree plus two years of relevant professional experience, including 18 months in an executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory capacity; a bachelor’s degree plus four years of relevant experience, including the required 18 months of supervisory-level experience; an associate degree or 60 semester credits plus six years of relevant experience, including the required supervisory experience; a high school diploma or equivalent plus eight years of relevant experience, including the required supervisory experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• All qualification pathways require a high school diploma and at least two years of relevant professional experience, including 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience supervising staff performing professional work in the specified areas.
• Relevant experience areas include budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, fiscal or economic research, management or methods analysis, operations or organizational research, program evaluation, and specified personnel, public administration, labor, planning, and fiscal management fields.
• The listed work duties require computer and analytics skills, SAS programming including macros, data preparation and modeling, and analysis of tax returns and related data.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Senior Director in providing supervisory direction to a unit performing computer and analytics work to identify audit-worthy tax returns and conduct data quality and integrity reviews.
• Assist with model development and communicate with senior Audit staff to ensure models are accurate and meet Audit’s requirements.
• Prepare and evaluate reports for bi-weekly model meetings, investigate report issues and anomalies, recommend adjustments or corrections, and track model results.
• Respond to ad hoc and special-project data requests by producing or overseeing accurate, relevant, well-documented, properly formatted research or analytic results.
• Supervise and participate in ongoing reviews of tax return adjustments that trigger Quality Assurance and Egregious cases.
• Perform difficult and complex computer application programming using SAS, including macros and subroutines.
• Develop, update, and maintain standardized SAS code and associated datasets for modeling, tax recalculation, non-filer identification, and related uses.
• Assist in developing and implementing models for corporation and general corporation taxes, unincorporated business taxes, commercial rent tax, real property transfer tax, hotel tax, and other special projects.
• Use knowledge of tax laws and available data sources to help identify taxpayers who may be underreporting and businesses that may not be meeting filing requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager