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Role Overview: As a Senior Analyst, Internal Audit - Data Scientist at Synchrony, you will be a key member of the Internal Audit Innovation team, reporting to the VP, Internal Audit - Innovation and Advanced Analytics leader. Your role will involve performing data science and data engineering development across the Internal Audit department. You will create advanced analytics solutions to enhance decision-making processes within internal audit and provide robust data analytics support to audit teams. Your contributions will be pivotal in creating innovative solutions that improve audit efficiency, automate processes, and generate actionable insights. Collaboration with audit professionals and stakeholders will be crucial to identify data-driven opportunities, build scalable analytics solutions, and drive continuous improvement in audit practices. This position is remote, offering you the flexibility to work from home with occasional in-person engagement activities like team meetings, training, and culture events. Key Responsibilities: - Deliver advanced analytics to support the audit plan, including cycle audits, issue validation, remediation activities, and special projects. - Design and deploy analytic scripts and dashboards to communicate actionable insights to audit stakeholders. - Document analytic results and findings into audit workpapers. - Ensure the accuracy and integrity of data used in audit engagements through data transformation techniques. - Deploy automation on repetitive audit tasks using data analytics and data engineering techniques. - Collaborate with Internal Audit teams to understand audit test objectives and data requirements. - Collaborate with remediation teams to ensure data insights are effectively integrated into action plans. - Lead projects from beginning to end, including ideation, data mining, strategy formulation, and presentation of results and recommendations. Qualifications Required: - Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Data Science, or relevant field, with a minimum of 3+ years of experience in writing and optimizing SQL/SAS queries in a business environment. In lieu of a degree, 5+ years of relevant experience is required. - Knowledge of data warehouse technical architecture, ETL, and analytic tools for extracting unstructured and structured data. - Proficiency in coding with Python and experience with visualization software like Tableau or Power BI. - Experience in managing, moving, and manipulating data from multiple sources. - Familiarity with segmentation techniques such as decision trees or k-means clustering and model development techniques like logistic regression, random forest, or gradient boosting. - Ability to provide analytic support, interpret data, make strategic recommendations, and present findings to key stakeholders. - Strong communication, relationship building, influencing, collaboration, and project management skills. Additional Company Details: Synchrony is a premier consumer financial services company with a diverse and inclusive work culture. We have been recognized as one of the Best Companies to Work for in India and offer flexibility, choice, and best-in-class employee benefits to promote work-life integration and overall well-being. We focus on advancing diverse talent to take up leadership roles and provide opportunities for career advancement and upskilling. Join us in building a culture of innovation and contributing to agile and innovative company growth. Role Overview: As a Senior Analyst, Internal Audit - Data Scientist at Synchrony, you will be a key member of the Internal Audit Innovation team, reporting to the VP, Internal Audit - Innovation and Advanced Analytics leader. Your role will involve performing data science and data engineering development across the Internal Audit department. You will create advanced analytics solutions to enhance decision-making processes within internal audit and provide robust data analytics support to audit teams. Your contributions will be pivotal in creating innovative solutions that improve audit efficiency, automate processes, and generate actionable insights. Collaboration with audit professionals and stakeholders will be crucial to identify data-driven opportunities, build scalable analytics solutions, and drive continuous improvement in audit practices. This position is remote, offering you the flexibility to work from home with occasional in-person engagement activities like team meetings, training, and culture events. Key Responsibilities: - Deliver advanced analytics to support the audit plan, including cycle audits, issue validation, remediation activities, and special projects. - Design and deploy analytic scripts and dashboards to communicate actionable insights to audit stakeholders. - Document analytic results and findings into audit workpapers. - Ensure the accuracy and integrity of data used in audit engagements through data transformation techniques. - Deploy aut
