Data Analytics Analyst - Jersey City, United States - Royal Bank of Canada

Description

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Job Title

Data Analytics Analyst

Job Description

What is the Opportunity?

Assist Internal Audit RBC US teams in the research, development, and delivery of strategic and analytics initiatives to achieve Audit objectives in alignment with Internal Audit's transformation goals. These initiatives affect operations and audit execution across multiple geographies and/or across multiple business units/platforms. Responsible for supporting the performance and quality of analytics that will provide continuous improvements of the audits that have been planned for the respective platforms.

Support the business phases of the analytics lifecycle for the respective Internal Audit platform(s). Responsible for assisting in internal and external research, stakeholder management, collaborative requirement gathering, and a user-centric approach that in combination ensure technical solutions are both valuable and readily adopted across Internal Audit. Effectively collaborate closely with technical talent pools who transform proposed business cases into leading edge technological solutions. Strategically recommend and apply existing technology to reduce duplication of efforts and ensure the Internal Audit platforms have the skills and capacity to use and understand the technology available across Internal Audit. Responsible for researching and developing foundational analytics that support Internal Audit RBC US teams.

What will you do?

Analytics Lab Support

• Assist in the creation and maintenance of foundational data & analytics initiatives that provide continuous improvements of the audits that have been planned in the platform(s).
• Support effective delivery of a pipeline of data analytics and automation initiatives that impact Audit execution activities globally across all regions and lines of business.
• Acts as a peer to the Data Engineers and Data Scientists in the centralized Data Management & Analytics team (DMA).
• Empowered to challenge and refine the value of analytics ideas as proposed by the auditors.

Business Case Development and Adoption Support

• Conduct research and identify opportunities for improving processes and technology: Externally, research best practices, emerging risks, and innovation across RBC and broadly throughout the financial sector. Internally, gather, understand, and analyse auditors' pain points.
• Size potential upside of deploying a solution across platforms, in line with your findings. In partnership with technical experts and other stakeholders, define and articulate ROI for your business cases for Executive Selection Committee approval.
• Support technical builds and process reengineering aligned with business cases at every step of analytics lifecycle; engage auditors as needed and support user acceptance testing across your platforms.
• Support the communication of ongoing work to broad Internal Audit audience and support creation of training materials and experiences for selected tools.

Technological use and Reuse

• Support the adoption of centrally developed data products in the platform with support from the DMA team.
• Support global adoption of IA wide data initiatives.
• Support technology use and reuse by having a thorough understanding of available and upcoming technology across the Internal Audit toolkit.
• Assist in review of quarterly Audit plan for existing tool use to reduce duplication of efforts and to ensure technology provides expected return.
• Support gathering and triage feedback for technical experts on an ongoing basis.

Leadership & People Development

• Mentor team members - assist with individual capability building and certification, grow the skillsets /capabilities of the team, transfer skills/knowledge, and demonstrate awareness of linkages and political forces.
• Develop and maintain strong working relationships with team members, process stakeholders, support groups, business partner teams, to ensure collaboration and cooperation to meet timing of projects.
• Continually demonstrate commitment to and application of RBC Leadership Model Behaviors.

What do you need to succeed?

Overall

• Good understanding of programming languages (Python, SQL, R)
• Strong understanding and experience using data visualization tools
• Strong understanding of Data Analytics to optimize use
• Knowledge of financial industry regulatory guidelines
• Knowledge of auditing principles and techniques
• Proficient written and oral communication skills
• Proficient in project management
• Ability to learn new and emerging technologies
• Ability to work in a dynamically changing environment.

Technical experience:

• Proven ability to produce, conduct, and report on internal and external research, including qualitative and quantitative metrics
• Demonstrated ability to calculate ROI for projects of various complexity and scale
• Working knowledge of Python, SQL, Data Visualization, UX/UI
• Working knowledge of Agile or other lean methodologies
• Working knowledge of design, development, and implementation experience utilizing data technologies
• Proficient analytical and problem solving skills
• Proficient data profiling, cleaning, and mining
• Ability to perform complex data analysis on large volumes of data and present findings to stakeholders
• Proficient data extract, transform, and load processes with a variety of data types
• Experience with big data technologies – Hadoop (Pig, Hive), noSQL/SQL databases, parallel processing techniques and Apache Spark

Leadership and People Management experience:

• Demonstrates they have successfully worked in inclusive and diverse work teams
• Proven ability to multitask and prioritize activities; across borders and cultures
• Experience working as a team member on a special project, over an extended period of time

What's in it for you?

We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.

• A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
• Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
• Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
• Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
• Opportunities to do challenging work
• Opportunities to building close relationships with clients

The good-faith expected salary range for the above position is $65,000 - $105,000 depending on factors including but not limited to the candidate's experience, skills, registration status; market conditions; and business needs. This salary range does not include other elements of total compensation, including a discretionary bonus and benefits such as a 401(k) program with company-matching contributions; health, dental, vision, life and disability insurance; and paid time-off plan.

RBC's compensation philosophy and principles recognize the importance of a highly qualified global workforce and plays a critical role in attracting, engaging and retaining talent that:

· Drives RBC's high performance culture

· Enables collective achievement of our strategic goals

· Generates sustainable shareholder returns and above market shareholder value

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Job Summary

Assist Internal Audit RBC US teams in the research, development, and delivery of strategic and analytics initiatives to achieve Audit objectives in alignment with Internal Audit's transformation goals. These initiatives affect operations and audit execution across multiple geographies and/or across multiple business units/platforms. Responsible for supporting the performance and quality of analytics that will provide continuous improvements of the audits that have been planned for the respective platforms.

Support the business phases of the analytics lifecycle for the respective Internal Audit platform(s). Responsible for assisting in internal and external research, stakeholder management, collaborative requirement gathering, and a user-centric approach that in combination ensure technical solutions are both valuable and readily adopted across Internal Audit. Effectively collaborate closely with technical talent pools who transform proposed business cases into leading edge technological solutions. Strategically recommend and apply existing technology to reduce duplication of efforts and ensure the Internal Audit platforms have the skills and capacity to use and understand the technology available across Internal Audit. Responsible for researching and developing foundational analytics that support Internal Audit RBC US teams.

Address:

Jersey City, New Jersey, United States of America

City:

USA-NJ-JERSEY CITY

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

Internal Audit

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

:00

Application Deadline:

:00

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

At RBC, we embrace diversity and inclusion for innovation and growth. We are committed to building inclusive teams and an equitable workplace for our employees to bring their true selves to work. We are taking actions to tackle issues of inequity and systemic bias to support our diverse talent, clients and communities.
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