Deloitte Global

Position summary:

Do you thrive on developing creative and innovative insights to solve complex challenges? Want to work on next-generation, cutting-edge products and services that deliver outstanding value and that are global in vision and scope? Work with other experts in your field? Work for a world-class organization that provides an exceptional career experience with an inclusive and collaborative culture? 

Want to make an impact that matters? Consider Deloitte Global.

Work you'll do

Working as a member of the Advanced Analytics Team within Deloitte Global, the Data Scientist will key to developing and implementing data harvesting best practices and capabilities to support data driven insights for the business. They will contribute to architecting, implementing models and algorithms that will enable and elevate data-driven decisions.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Partner closely with stakeholders to identify high-impact applications of data to solve meaningful business problems
• Identify, mine, and analyze med and large size datasets to unearth insights that drive new business value for clients
• Develop robust statistical and machine learning models and implement processes to evaluate, automate and improve model performance
• Lead efforts with various functions to test, deploy and iterate on data science solutions
• Build, execute, and evaluate A/B tests
• Manages the progress of projects by tracking activity, resolving issues, and recommending actions
• Provides senior management and project management with regular updates on deliverable timeline and project status
• Analyzes data and collaborates with leadership and technical teams to identify potential insights to drive decision making
• Responds proactively to both business and project issues and escalates appropriately
• Train other data scientists in area of expertise
• Provide feedback to improve the quality of data collection to ensure adequacy, accuracy and legitimacy of data (e.g. this could involve cross-checking of different sources and validating the correlation between them)
• Distills qualitative and quantitative insight to communicate compelling stories.
• Collaborates with Functional and Technical teams to gain understanding of business problems, technical solutions to develop data science solutions.
• Assists in the documentation of requirements, use cases, user stories required to ensure data science solutions are developed and tested to meet fit intended purpose, meet business needs and are operationally sustainable.

What you'll be part of - our Deloitte Global Culture:

At Deloitte, we expect results. Incredible—tangible—results. And Deloitte Global professionals play a unique role in delivering those results. We reach across disciplines and borders to serve our global organization. We are the engine of Deloitte. We develop and implement global strategies and provide programs and services that unite our network.

In Deloitte Global, everyone has opportunities. We see the importance of your perspective and your ability to create value. We want you to fit in—with an inclusive culture, focus on work-life fit and well-being, and a supportive, connected environment; but we also want you to stand out—with opportunities to have a strategic impact, innovate, and take the risks necessary to make your mark.

Who you'll work with:

Global Finance provides the most cutting-edge and insightful research and analysis of the financial health of the entire Deloitte organization around the world. We advise, guide, and monitor global initiatives in five major areas: tax, member-firm reporting, finance and accounting, strategic projects, and financial analysis.

Qualifications:

Required Technical Skills

• Experience working with SQL to manipulate medium/large data sets from multiple sources
• Ability to process complex data sets through scripting language (such as R, Python) or other method
• Ability to perform exploratory data analysis to discover interesting trends and relationships
• Experience applying statistical modeling, machine learning, NLP, and other quantitative techniques to solve business problems
• Possess understanding of and ability to communicate statistics to experts and non-experts
• Creative thinker who has proven ability to innovate through data exploration and application of solutions 
• Ability to thrive in an environment that requires flexibility and multi-tasking 
• Ability to take initiative and work with high level of independence 
• Strong technical and remote collaboration skills are a must 
• Excellent organization, analytical, and planning skills
• Experience in dealing with multiple projects and cross-functional teams and ability to coordinate across teams in a large matrix organization environment 
• Strong relationship building and consulting skills
• Fosters a climate conducive to establishing positive working relationships with clients and cross functional team members

Required Licenses, Certifications, and Other Requirements

• Fluency in one or more scripting language (such as R, Python, Octave)
• Experience using data visualization tools (such as Power BI, Tableau, ggplot2, matplotlib, D3.js) 
• Understanding of concepts, terminology, and measurement issues related to web and mobile app traffic (optional)
• Familiarity with SharePoint (optional)
• Familiarity with Hadoop, HBase, Hive or MapReduce or Spark (optional)

Education & Experience

• Minimum of 5+ years of relevant experience with focus on advanced analytics and predictive modelling. 
• Masters degree in a quantitative or data-related field (Statistics, Computer Science, Data Analytics, etc.)

How you'll grow:

Deloitte Global inspires leaders at every level. We believe in investing in you, helping you embrace leadership opportunities at every step of your career, and helping you identify and hone your unique strengths. We encourage you to grow by providing formal and informal development programs, coaching and mentoring, and on-the-job challenges. We want you to ask questions, take chances, and explore the possible.

Benefits you'll receive:

Deloitte’s Total Rewards program reflects our continued commitment to lead from the front in everything we do—that’s why we take pride in offering a comprehensive variety of programs and resources to support your health and well-being needs. We provide the benefits, competitive compensation, and recognition to help sustain your efforts in making an impact that matters.

Corporate citizenship:

Deloitte is led by a purpose: to make an impact that matters. This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our people, and our communities. We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform. We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.