Senior Analyst, Internal Audit – Data Scientist (L09)

Job ID: 2501172

Job Description:

Role Title: Senior Analyst, Internal Audit – Data Scientist (L09)

Company Overview: Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

• We have recently been ranked #2 among India’s Best Companies to Work for by Great Place to Work. We were among the Top 50 India’s Best Workplaces in Building a Culture of Innovation by All by GPTW and Top 25 among Best Workplaces in BFSI by GPTW. We have also been recognized by Ambition Box Employee Choice Awards among the Top 20 Mid-Sized Companies, ranked #3 among Top Rated Companies for Women, and Top-Rated Financial Services Companies.

• Synchrony celebrates ~52% women diversity, 105+ people with disabilities, and ~50 veterans and veteran family members.

• We offer Flexibility and Choice for all employees and provide best-in-class employee benefits and programs that cater to work-life integration and overall well-being.

• We provide career advancement and upskilling opportunities, focusing on Advancing Diverse Talent to take up leadership roles.

Organizational Overview: Synchrony’s Internal Audit function serves as an independent and objective function aimed at enhancing the organization’s governance, risk management, and controls. Internal Audit’s purpose-driven work adds value to the company by safeguarding a controlled foundation in support of agile and innovative company growth; performing risk-based audit activities designed to identify worthwhile and impactful insights.

Role Summary/Purpose: Reporting to the VP, Internal Audit – Innovation and Advanced Analytics leader, the Sr. Analyst Data Scientist will be a key member of the Internal Audit Innovation team. This role involves performing data science and data engineering development across the Internal Audit department. The Sr. Analyst Data Scientist will create advance analytics solutions to enhance decision-making processes within internal audit and provide robust data analytics support to audit teams. This position is pivotal in creating innovative solutions that improve audit efficiency, automate processes, and generate actionable insights. The Sr. Analyst Data Scientist will work closely with audit professionals and stakeholders to identify data-driven opportunities, build scalable analytics solutions, and drive continuous improvement in audit practices.

This position is remote, where you have the option to work from home. On occasion we may request for you to commute to our nearest office for in person engagement activities such as team meetings, training and culture events. We’re proud to offer you choice and flexibility.

Key Responsibilities:

• Data Driven Risk Identification & Remediation Strategies:

  • Deliver advanced analytics to support the audit plan, including cycle audits, issue validation, remediation activities and special projects

  • Design and deploy analytic scripts and dashboards to communicate actionable insights to audit stakeholders.

  • Document analytic results and findings into audit workpapers.

• Data Transformation & Automation:

  • Ensure the accuracy and integrity of data used in audit engagements through data transformation techniques.

  • Deploy automation on repetitive audit tasks using data analytics and data engineering techniques.

• Collaboration with Stakeholders:

  • Collaborate with Internal Audit teams to understand audit test objectives and data requirements.

  • Collaborate with remediation teams to ensure data insights are effectively integrated into action plans.

  • Lead projects from beginning to end, including ideation, data mining, strategy formulation, and presentation of results and recommendations.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer science, Data science and even accounts background can be consider with experience with minimum 3+ years of experience writing and optimizing SQL/SAS  queries in a business environment and in lieu of a degree 5+ years of experience writing and optimizing SQL/SAS  queries in a business environment.

• Knowledge of data warehouse technical architecture, ETL and analytic tools in extracting unstructured and structured data

• Experience in building algorithms and coding proficiency in Python is required

• Experience with visualization software Tableau or Power BI

• Experience managing, moving, and manipulating data from multiple sources

• Familiar with segmentation techniques such as decision trees or k-means clustering

• Familiar with model development techniques such as logistic regression, random forest, or gradient boosting

• Ability to provide analytic support including pulling data, preparing analysis, interpreting data, making strategic recommendations, and presenting to client/product team

• Ability to clearly explain technical and analytical information (verbally, written, and in presentation form) and summarize for key stakeholders

• Outstanding communications, relationship building, influencing, and collaboration skills

• Strong project management, communications, multi-tasking, ability to work independently

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

• Ability to drive change and transformation

• Experience working within Internal Audit and knowledge of core Audit functions and responsibilities or is interested in learning risk and controls and audit concepts

• Ability to build strong, trusting relationships with senior business stakeholders.

• Possess effective project management skills, make sound decisions, and can pivot on prioritized projects

• Experience with Tableau or Power BI

• Experience with the Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, & Power Apps)

Eligibility Criteria:

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer science, Data science and even accounts background can be consider with experience with minimum 3+ years of experience writing and optimizing SQL/SAS  queries in a business environment and in lieu of a degree 5+ years of experience writing and optimizing SQL/SAS  queries in a business environment.

Work Timings: This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details. 

For Internal Applicants:

• Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

• Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday

• Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

• Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

• L4 to L7 Employees who have completed 12 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible.

• L04+ Employees can apply

Grade/Level: 09

Job Family Group:

Internal Audit