Staff Data Analyst

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The role:
SoFi is seeking a Staff Internal Auditor, Data Analytics lead to join SoFi's Internal Audit (IA) Department, reporting to the Senior Manager, Data Analytics, Internal Audit. You will be helping to build the foundation for IA's data analytics function, supporting engagement teams in various audits, and assisting in special projects, as necessary. This is a hands-on, creative role, on a growing team with a vast opportunity to further expand the function's capabilities, efficiency, and effectiveness.
What you'll do:

• Identify, design, implement, and maintain the data analytics routines needed to support audit activities performed including, audit execution, continuous auditing, and department-level audit operations and reporting.
• Proactively establish connections with key data owners and help IA build and understand metadata to support the analytics being performed.
• Assist with the establishment and maintenance of an IA Team Datamart to store and manage confidential IA data for audit testing and routine reporting.
• Develop and maintain a successful system of data analytics which will provide an enhanced understanding of risks and controls and establish an efficient/automated means to analyze and increase testing volumes of data for outliers, anomalies, patterns, and trends to evaluate the design and effectiveness of controls.
• Enhance the use of data analytics within the Department and drive data strategy and efficiency.
• Interact with the IA Leadership Team and business/functional area management to identify appropriate data sources and data elements required for analytics.
• Identify, design, and develop data analytics extract techniques to support the audit activities performed by IA.
• Implement and manage the infrastructure required to support data extraction, storage, transformation, and processing through data analytics techniques and generating output for visualization/analysis by IA.
• Automate audit testing and develop techniques for continuous auditing and the ability to analyze large volumes of data.
• Define how automation and continuous auditing fit into our overall Departmental workflow - risk assessment, testing, and reporting.
• Create automation and continuous auditing dashboards for monitoring.
• Produce regularly scheduled or ad-hoc reports to communicate the progress and assess the effectiveness of the IA program. Assist with quarterly Board reporting as required.
• Represent IA, as directed, on committees and/or special project teams as necessary.

What you'll need:

• Minimum 2+ years of relevant audit work experience, with at least two years of data analysis and/or statistical modeling analysis.
• Strong experience with analytics tools including but not limited to Excel, SQL, Alteryx, Python, R, etc.
• Strong experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau.
• Knowledge of internal and/or external auditing standards.
• Proficient understanding and application of data analysis used in financial services, audit, and/or risk management functions.
• Demonstrated quantitative, analytical, data-intuition, and problem-solving skills, and proficiency in data analytics and automation techniques.
• Experience with utilizing data over annual audit planning, risk assessments and continuous auditing is preferred.

Nice to haves:

• A bachelor's degree or equivalent in relevant fields of study - Data Science, Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, Statistics, Business, or another related field is desirable.
• Professional certifications attained or in progress related to auditing, risk management, and/or data sciences is desirable.

Compensation and Benefits
The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, and location.
To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!
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