Senior Data Science Analyst - Audit

Job Details

Job Title:

Senior Data Science Analyst – Audit

Location:

Bristol or Edinburgh

Salary: £49,000 – £59,000

Hours:

Full-time

Working pattern:
Hybrid, at least two days per week, or 40% of time at an office site.

• Apply advanced analytics and data science techniques to evaluate the effectiveness of the Group’s control environment, providing assurance and identifying deficiencies.
• Partner with other audit colleagues to assess risks and test controls, producing robust, defensible analyses, and help auditors to interpret results.
• Seek out opportunities to use innovative data science techniques, such as Generative AI and Machine Learning, helping to identify new use cases and enhancing audit processes.
• Establish relationships with internal audit teams to facilitate delivery of data science and analytics, whilst learning about the Group’s businesses, risks and controls.
• Promote the use of data science and analytics in audit, upskill audit colleagues in data analytics, and contribute to department-wide presentations.
• Identify opportunities for innovation, contribute to data science and analytics development projects, and help the function to be more data and AI driven.
• Develop knowledge of the Group’s strategy, products and markets and take responsibility for professional development.

• 2–3 years of experience delivering data science and analytics to support audits, or experience in a non-audit role with a proven grasp of internal audit or risk management.
• Ability to understand business processes, risks and controls, and deal with ambiguity to deliver assurance and insights.
• Proficiency in SQL and Python, with practical experience.
• Knowledge of database and data warehouse concepts, analytics and core data science techniques.
• Knowledge of visualisation techniques.
• Experience presenting technical topics and complex analysis to a non-technical audience.
• Desirable: experience with machine learning, Generative AI, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Power BI.

• Reasonable workplace adjustments for colleagues with disabilities, including flexibility in office attendance, location and working patterns.
• Disability Confident Leader: guaranteed interviews for a fair and proportionate number of applicants with a disability, long-term health or neurodivergent condition through the Disability Confident Scheme.
• A generous pension contribution of up to 15%.
• An annual performance-related bonus.
• Share schemes, including free shares.
• Benefits you can adapt to your lifestyle, including discounted shopping.
• 28 days’ holiday, with bank holidays on top.
• A range of wellbeing initiatives and generous parental leave policies.

Flexible working options are available, including hybrid working, job sharing, and variable hours.

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