Internal Audit Analyst

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

Internal Audit (IA) supports the Board of Directors’ Audit Committee and senior firm leadership in fulfilling their oversight roles by independently assessing the firm’s internal control structure, raising awareness of control risk, providing advice to management in developing control solutions, and monitoring the implementation of management’s control measures. IA is comprised of the following global functional audit teams covering the various business areas of the firm: Securities, Investment Management, Corporate, GS Bank USA, and Technology. The data analytics team intends to provide analytics strategy and support for audit teams (Securities-IBD, Investment Management, Corporate (Finance, Risk, Services), and Technology teams with the objective of optimizing the audit approach and testing to focus on the areas or risks that need the most attention.

* Develop applications and back-end processes supporting the data architecture and data modeling strategy for the DA team. Applications will be developed in Java, Slang, and other strategic programming languages and APIs used by the firm. Similarly, knowledge of Perl * Extract data from data stores, profile data and decipher the data quality. it is important to ensure that the quality of data being used for various analytical efforts is very high. * Build and manage metadata (data dictionary) for a wider audience. This would assist non-technical auditors to understand the data analytics artifacts. * Build visualization analytics to present scenarios from the data; paint the big picture for management reporting on potential risks and incorporate the ability to drill down to the lowest level while doing root cause analyses

* Degree in Computer Science * Demonstrated development expertise, ideally in an OO language (e.g. Java, C++) * Development experience with scripting languages such as Python or Perl * Experience with SQL programming , preferably in Sybase and MS SQL * Excellent communication skills (written and oral). Ability to communicate what is relevant and important in a clear and concise manner * Drive and Motivation. Ability to handle multiple tasks, takes initiative to improve his/her own performance **Preferred Qualifications** * Knowledge of basic statistics (Time Series Analysis, Correlation, Regression) and it’s application to data * Experience with any visualization tool (Spotfire, Qlikview or Tableau) will be an added advantage * LINUX/UNIX System Administration * Creativity/Innovation. Ability to create new ways to improve current processes and develop solutions that are grounded in reality and have practical value