Description
The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is seeking a Data Analytics Specialist to join their Data Analytics team. You will develop scripts and applications using R and Python to prepare data, run advanced data analytics, and report findings to auditors and investigators using impactful visualisations.
The role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement, and strategic relationship management skills across government.
Key responsibilities:
- Develop scripts and applications using R, Python, and various web application frameworks like Shiny and Django, to carry out advanced data analytics to support internal audit and counter fraud and investigation (CF&I) activities across many government organisations.
- Produce and present reports detailing analysis outputs and visualisations for GIAA colleagues and customers.
- Document, maintain, and collaborate on code using tools such as DevOps and git.
- Suggest and implement improvements to current scripts, packages, data pipelines, applications, and quality assurance processes, to incorporate coding best practices and quality standards.
- Lead activities to upskill members of the GIAA data analytics network and promote the benefits and use of data analytics across the agency.
- Engage with data teams across government and the private sector to investigate new data analytics approaches suitable for internal audit and CF&I activities.
The successful candidate will have:
- Experience in interpreting customer needs and conducting advanced data analytics using R or Python to deliver services to meet their expectations.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively the results of complex analysis to colleagues and customers who are not experts in data analytics.
- Demonstrated aptitude for connecting business problems to analytical solutions, proactively working with others to implement them, and researching and horizon scanning to identify new methods and opportunities.
- Strong organisational skills, experience leading and managing multiple ongoing projects at pace, and building strong relationships with stakeholders and customers.
- Experience of two or more of the following areas: generating outputs using quarto; developing web applications in R or Python frameworks; building AI products; maintaining Azure environments; building and reviewing business critical models.
The salary for this role is GBP 60,468 - 70,510 per year.
Benefits include:
- Competitive salaries and in-year rewards
- Flexible working
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
- Discount on big brands
- Volunteering days
- Season Ticket Loan and Cycle to Work Schemes
- Free eyesight tests
- Family-friendly HR policies
- 25 days’ annual leave increasing by one day per year of service to 30 days after 5 years’ service