Audit Chief Data Office - Data Scientist - Senior Associate

About the role

Join our Audit Data Strategy Team as a Data Science Associate, where you'll have the opportunity to impact the Audit business through data-driven solutions and insights. This role offers career growth and the chance to work on strategic, high-visibility projects. You will develop AI/ML solutions to influence how risk is identified, assessed, and mitigated across the firm, design and implement advanced AI/ML solutions to enhance control testing, and support strategic initiatives to deliver actionable insights. Your work will involve a mix of consulting, data science, and programming, with a focus on driving data science and analytics strategies.

Responsibilities

• Leverage experience and analytical skills to uncover novel use cases of Big Data analytics, including opportunities to responsibly apply foundation models and Generative AI.
• Drive data science and analytics strategies, including recommendations on analytical products and standards.
• Help partners define business problems and scope analytical solutions.
• Build an understanding of problem domains and available data assets.
• Research, design, implement, and evaluate analytical approaches and models, including GenAI-based methods.
• Perform exploratory statistics and data mining tasks on diverse datasets.
• Communicate findings and obstacles to stakeholders to drive delivery to market.
• Develop subject matter expertise in financial and operational domains.
• Code solutions with strong programming skills.
• Collaborate across teams to deliver the best solutions for clients.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant quantitative field and 5+ years of data analytics experience, or advanced degree and 3+ years of experience.
• Exceptional analytical, quantitative, problem-solving, and communication skills.
• Intellectual curiosity for solving business problems.
• Leadership and collaboration skills.
• Knowledge of statistical software (e.g., Python, R, SAS) and data querying languages (e.g., SQL).
• Familiarity with GenAI and prompt engineering basics (prompt design, evaluation, guardrails).
• Experience with modern analytics tools (e.g., SAS, SQL, Hive, Hadoop, Spark, Python, Tableau, Alteryx).
• Ability to convey complex information to technical and non-technical audiences.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with LLM-enabled applications such as retrieval-augmented generation, classification or extraction from unstructured text, or agent-like workflows; exposure to evaluation methods for LLM quality, cost, and latency.
• Understanding of key drivers of Risk & Control Frameworks.
• M.S. degree or equivalent.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health care coverage.
• On-site health and wellness centers.
• Retirement savings plan.
• Backup childcare.
• Tuition reimbursement.
• Mental health support.
• Financial coaching.

Pay

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions.

To be eligible for this role, you must be authorized to work in the United States. We do not offer any type of employment-based immigration sponsorship for this role.

About the Team

Our professionals in Corporate Functions cover a diverse range of areas from finance and risk to human resources and marketing. Our corporate teams are an essential part of our company, ensuring that we're setting our businesses, clients, customers, and employees up for success.