Senior Consultant Internal Audit, Analytic Engineering

Nationwide•Columbus, OH

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a team member in Internal Audit at Nationwide, a Fortune 100 company with nearly $70 billion in annual sales, the opportunities are endless! Let Nationwide help create your career journey! At Nationwide®, “on your side” goes beyond just words. Our customers are at the center of everything we do and we’re looking for associates who are passionate about delivering extraordinary care. This role is part of the Office of Internal Audit’s Digital Audit team and will report to the AVP, Internal Audit Technology Audit leader. This role will be responsible for the following areas: Lead the center of excellence within Internal Audit for the use of process mining capabilities by building process-related data models, the development of analytics, training auditors in the use of the tools and other related activities. As such, a strong technical acumen and strong partnership skills will be required Provide leadership and support in the digital auditor development program. Explore, identify & implement emerging technology for the Office and collaborate with various groups on technology-related efforts. Contribute and lead other various office Strategic Initiatives and StratOps projects as needed. As a process analytic engineer, you are an integral member of our agile audit teams to accelerate and drive Celonis’ expansion within Nationwide and Internal Audit. To generate high-value use cases, you work closely with our auditors and customers performing data transformations, conducting analyses, and developing data-driven process insights and actions. As a result, you’ll drive delivery of value-added insights across the breadth of Nationwide in partnership with our Internal Audit teams. You intrinsically possess a high level of vision and dedication. You are able to leverage the technical capabilities of the tools sets and the needs of our clients to sell the process mining vision. Your excellent analytical skills in concert with the ability to interpret business processes enable you to… Actively drive the Celonis Process Mining technology forward Ensure the optimal solution tackles the client’s and/or auditor’s pain points Employ Machine Learning algorithms to design innovative analyses and execution apps to make the client’s processes transparent Identify process inefficiencies and understand the root causes – ALWAYS in close collaboration with the customer In addition to your strong written and verbal communication skills that enable you to interact directly with clients and auditors, you’ll possess the following…. Do you have the desire to play a critical role in driving data-based business outcomes? At Nationwide, our Analytic professionals are responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights and identifying business opportunities using scientific research methods, statistics, machine learning and data visualization techniques. They participate in all phases of the analytic lifecycle, from research design, data collection and data processing to model building, deployment and presentation of results. Our industry-leading workforce uses an agile work environment and a collaborative culture to deliver outstanding solutions and results. If that sounds like something you aspire to, we want to know more about you! As a Senior Consultant, you'll lead the development of business analytics strategies. We'll count on you to consult with business partners to understand, align and deliver solutions that support business needs. It will be important to effectively build and maintain relationships to enhance analytic capabilities across the organization.

Requirements

Experience in IT Consulting, Management Consulting, Process Improvement, or similar area
Seasoned, experienced professional with a solid understanding of area role responsibilities; resolves a wide range of issues in creative ways
Bachelor’s degree in Business Informatics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or other Information-oriented degree program
Basic to moderate knowledge of SQL
Strong interest and/or experience in Big Data, Data Mining, and Process Mining
Undergraduate studies required in computer science, mathematics, analytic, data science, and related degrees.
More than ten years of demonstrated experience in role responsibilities.
Expertise (increasing with the level) is expected for query languages such as SQL, database architecture and data warehousing, reporting tools (e.g., Tableau), requirements development, cloud computing, UNIX/Linux terminal and/or shell scripting experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience with other programming languages such as Python, R, etc. are highly desired
Specialization in data and analytics preferred; SQL skills may be required; master's degree is a plus.
Programming languages such as Python, R, SAS, RESTful API’s and endpoint, Spark or other distributed computing platforms, machine learning experience, data modeling and mining a plus.
Experience in the financial services industry, especially in insurance, is desired.
Enterprise data assets is desired.

Responsibilities

Lead the center of excellence within Internal Audit for the use of process mining capabilities by building process-related data models, the development of analytics, training auditors in the use of the tools and other related activities.
Provide leadership and support in the digital auditor development program.
Explore, identify & implement emerging technology for the Office and collaborate with various groups on technology-related efforts.
Contribute and lead other various office Strategic Initiatives and StratOps projects as needed.
Actively drive the Celonis Process Mining technology forward
Ensure the optimal solution tackles the client’s and/or auditor’s pain points
Employ Machine Learning algorithms to design innovative analyses and execution apps to make the client’s processes transparent
Identify process inefficiencies and understand the root causes – ALWAYS in close collaboration with the customer
Structures and leads large complex analyses and build projects across one or more business units.
Effectively synthesizes analytic results to improve business outcomes, support decision-making at executive levels and enable process improvements.
Grows and evolves the data management and analytics profession to maximize effectiveness.
Synthesizes data needs to identify areas for process simplification and data integration opportunities, providing recommendations, leadership and coaching on solutions for the project team.
Reviews analytic products and provides meaningful feedback and coaching.
Ensures analytic applications are aligned to business needs and support objectives.
Acts as the technology owner (e.g. applications, systems, software, etc.) for data analytics when required.
Understands standards for implementation of analytic data asset builds into the Model Factory.
Leads in standard methodologies for accessing data across a diverse array of technologies and storage mechanisms.
Creates, packages, and communicates analytic work (synthesis) using appropriate statistical techniques to determine patterns to drive business outcomes and trends.
Builds analytic applications using statistical, database and/or general programming languages and tools.
Provides input, when required, on associate management, including performance, administration, training and development, workflow and organizational planning and hiring and placement.
May perform other responsibilities as assigned.

Benefits

medical/dental/vision
life insurance
short and long term disability coverage
paid time off with newly hired associates receiving a minimum of 18 days paid time off each full calendar year pro-rated quarterly based on hire date
nine paid holidays
8 hours of Lifetime paid time off
8 hours of Unity Day paid time off
401(k) with company match
company-paid pension plan
business casual attire