Senior Data Scientist, Global Data Analytics for Internal Audit Function - AMS
Responsibilities
About The Team
Internal Audit is a global function responsible for providing independent assurance and evaluating the company's risk management, governance and internal control processes to determine if they are designed and operating effectively. The Internal Audit team plans and executes audit projects according to our risk-based audit plan by evaluating financial, compliance, operational, and IT processes and controls. We work with business functions in addressing risks and improving the control environment through timely and comprehensive audit work and tracking of remediation actions until completion.
We are looking for a data scientist who will power our mission by building data products that enable and empower continuous auditing and the identification and discovery of risks throughout various business domains , spanning product and technology. You will be deploying your data analytics and data science skills to be part of the mission to build state-of-the-art analytics products for the audit team.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Internal Audit teams to design data-driven testing strategies for audits spanning e-commerce, ads), trust & safety, platform integrity, payments, infrastructure and security.
- Translate audit objectives, risk hypotheses, and control designs into scalable analytical tests, metrics, and models.
- Provide hands-on analytics support for audit engagements, including:
- Understanding end-to-end business and product workflows
- Conducting stakeholder interviews and system walkthroughs
- Developing complex queries and analytical logic
- Performing population completeness, accuracy, and integrity testing
- Identifying anomalies, trends, and risk signals
- Define and monitor key risk indicators (KRIs) and risk-aligned metrics embedded within product and operational data.
- Analyze user behavior, monetization flows, content or transaction lifecycles, and system events to identify emerging or systemic risks.
- Bridge traditional audit concepts with modern data and product to surface insights not discoverable through manual testing.
- Data inventory and lineage: Develop a deep understanding of the company's data ecosystem, including applications, event streams, operational databases, and data warehouses. Identify and maintain an inventory of critical data assets relevant to audit and risk use cases; assess data lineage, ownership, and reliability to support audit defensibility and repeatability.
- Data Warehousing and data foundations: Design, build, and maintain audit-ready data warehouses or data marts across multiple business verticals, ensuring performant, and well-modeled datasets. Implement robust data quality checks, reconciliation logic, and monitoring to ensure the completeness and accuracy of key datasets used for audit and risk analytics.
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- Contribute to the Internal Audit continuous auditing strategy, identifying opportunities to automate recurring audit procedures and control testing.
- Build and maintain ETL pipelines, reusable analytics frameworks, and dashboards that enable: ongoing monitoring of control effectiveness; early detection of control breakdowns or abnormal patterns; scalable reuse across audit engagements and regions.
- Where appropriate, leverage statistical methods, anomaly detection, or machine learning to enhance risk signal detection-while ensuring interpretability and auditability.
- Data Enablement & Analytics Democratization: systematically map relationships between business processes, risks, controls, and data to create reusable analytics assets; enable self-service analytics for auditors by developing standardized datasets, documentation, and dashboards; upskill audit team members through knowledge sharing, training sessions, and practical guidance on using data effectively in audits.
- Stakeholder Relationships: Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders, including data partners and owners across different business verticals. Communicate complex analytical findings clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences, including senior leadership.
- Professional Development: Continue to develop and expand knowledge in data analytics practices, machine learning, AI, and company products through continuous education.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline, such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, Operations Research, or Economics.
- Strong proficiency in SQL and at least one mainstream programming language (Python or R).
- 5+ years of hands-on experience in data analytics, data science, analytics engineering, or data engineering roles.
- Proven experience building and maintaining data products in one or more of the following domains: Product analytics (user behavior, funnels, experiments, KPIs); Business or marketing analytics (growth, monetization, performance measurement); Risk analytics, compliance analytics, or continuous audit analytics
- Solid understanding of ETL processes, data integration, and large-scale data processing, with cloud-based data infrastructure (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake).
- Experience implementing data quality checks, reconciliations, or data observability solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to translate ambiguous business or risk questions into structured analytical approaches.
Preferred Qualifications
- Working knowledge of large scale data processing techniques, such as Hadoop, Flink and MapReduce.
- Strong understanding of data warehousing, dimensional modeling, and analytics engineering best practices.
- Experience operating in a decentralized or federated data environment with multiple data owners.
- Strong business acumen and stakeholder management skills.
- Strong presentation and data storytelling skills, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Job Information
[For Pay Transparency] Compensation Description (annually)
The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $129600 - $296400 annually.
Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate's qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.
Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).
The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.
For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates:
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:
1. Interacting and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external clients and/or colleagues;
2. Appropriately handling and managing confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information and access to information technology systems; and
3. Exercising sound judgment.
Perks and Benefits
Health and Wellness
- Health Insurance
- Dental Insurance
- Vision Insurance
- HSA
- Life Insurance
- Fitness Subsidies
- Short-Term Disability
- Long-Term Disability
- On-Site Gym
- Mental Health Benefits
- Virtual Fitness Classes
Parental Benefits
- Fertility Benefits
- Adoption Assistance Program
- Family Support Resources
Work Flexibility
- Flexible Work Hours
- Hybrid Work Opportunities
Office Life and Perks
- Casual Dress
- Snacks
- Pet-friendly Office
- Happy Hours
- Some Meals Provided
- Company Outings
- On-Site Cafeteria
- Holiday Events
Vacation and Time Off
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Personal/Sick Days
- Leave of Absence
Financial and Retirement
- 401(K) With Company Matching
- Performance Bonus
- Company Equity
Professional Development
- Promote From Within
- Access to Online Courses
- Leadership Training Program
- Associate or Rotational Training Program
- Mentor Program
Diversity and Inclusion
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Program
- Employee Resource Groups (ERG)
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