Data Solutions Advisor

Job Summary

The Data Solutions Advisor plays a leading role in driving best practices relative to analytic/automation opportunities in audits by focusing on risks and providing innovative insights/cost-effective solutions. With our standard engagement cadence and focus on diversifying our talent, the Data Solutions Advisor will be responsible for creating and overseeing ad hoc reporting, proactive monitoring metrics (dashboards) and analyses, and identifying/implementing automation opportunities. In this role you will gain broad exposure to the Comcast Corporation through the audit process.

Core Responsibilities

What You Deliver

• Demonstrates solid project management skills for data or automation related projects, including developing project plans and budgets, scheduling deliverables across CGA teams, executing per plan, and messaging status/issues to management.
• Manages the activities of Data or Automation team members and keeps the team on track to complete assignments.
• Reviews team workpapers and other documentation to ensure they are clear, complete, and well-organized.
• Identifies automation opportunities within the business that impact CGA’s audit work and assists in developing the business case to support the implementation.
• Ensures all data is secure and follows company policies regarding data classification.
• Provides ongoing feedback on work completion and performance to team members.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement to initiatives, team activities, tools, and training.
• Supports department objectives and performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.
• Consistent exercise of independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Regular, consistent and punctual attendance. Must be able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s) as necessary.
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Technical Expectations

• Manages and executes the extraction, manipulation, visualization, and analysis of analytics that support the audit lifecycle.
• Leads engagement objectives discussions with other CGA team members and provides recommendations on potential data analytics to support the audit.
• Applies analytical models (e.g., regression, simulation, statistical, etc.) to audit scope areas to identify outliers, trends and/or projections, where appropriate.
• Uses advanced data concepts, tools, and programming techniques (e.g., SQL programming, MS SQL Server development, Oracle Business Intelligence, Teradata, Tableau, and/or comparable platforms) to perform extract, transform, load (ETL) and data analysis activities, and actively shares knowledge with team members.
• Writes clear and meaningful data analysis workpapers, documenting root-cause (as applicable), work performed, findings, and recommendations for management.
• Supports the creation and evolution of the Automation COE by developing and implementing best practices for governance, operations, technology, value measurement, and integration.
• Partners with the Automation sub-team to ensure the accuracy and completeness of bot designs, and quality of bot output.
• Oversees responsibility for the overall automation of bot design, build, testing/defect resolution, and change control management procedures.
• Schedules bots and maintains job scheduler per CGA requirements.
• Manages the assessment of new process automation candidates, concluding on feasibility, and accurately estimating development efforts.
• Develops and maintains a list of automation opportunities and plans for sprint execution.
• Leads sprint management and execution.
• Assures process documentation (as-is and future automated state) is accurate and effective.
• Partners with the Analytics sub-team to ensure that bots meet CGA requirements.
• Ensures that test procedures and scenarios are appropriate, includes both positive and negative testing, and validates that bots are operating as designed.
• Creates and documents test procedures and scenarios for Unit/SIT/UAT, executes UAT with CGA COEs, and works with the Analytics sub-team to resolve defects, as necessary.
• Supports the change control process by documenting change requests/requirements and working with the Automation Specialists to implement and test.

How You Deliver

• Demonstrates the ability to quickly grasp complex subject matter. Applies strong analytical skills and business knowledge.
• Stays current on data analytics trends (e.g., new tools, statistical methods, visualization techniques) as well as emerging technologies that impact how data can be used on audits (e.g., AI, Blockchain, RPA).
• Performs effectively as a project leader across engagements.
• Shows flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks, allocating/re-allocating work across engagement team members, or stepping in to support execution, as appropriate.
• Motivates engagement team to deliver high quality work on time.
• Exercises consistent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Exhibits willingness to tackle new areas and challenging topics.
• Demonstrates the ability to work in a complex, dynamic, and fast-paced environment.
• Acts in accordance with stated CGA and company policies and practices, and maintains the highest degree of integrity in all activities and interactions.
• Displays regular, consistent, and punctual attendance. Able to work nights and weekends, variable schedule(s), as necessary. Out-of-town travel is required approximately 20%.

How You Partner

• Collaborates with members of CGA engagement teams to understand audit activities and identifies ways that data analytics and/or automation can enhance overall work product, productivity, or audit coverage.
• Exhibits strong interpersonal skills including written and verbal communications, and an ability to collaborate with others.
• Shows respect to other team members and clients in all interactions.
• Demonstrates a willingness to assist other team members in areas outside of direct assignments when necessary.
• Collaborates in a virtual environment to complete projects with team members in various locations.
• Supervises engagement staff member’s interactions with business management and helps team members to resolve issues.
• Partners with internal CGA teams (e.g., FinOps, SOX, and Technology) across engagement activities.
• Includes business partners in engagement activities (e.g., Legal, Human Resources, Security, TPX, EBI, etc.), as needed.
• Coaches engagement team members to develop data analytics, automation techniques, and business knowledge.

How You Develop

• Utilizes available resources and tools to research and expand knowledge to enhance work product.
• Exhibits a commitment to continuously self-improve by working with leadership to leverage strengths and focus on areas of development.
• Gains knowledge of IT controls and cyber security concepts and applies to engagements.
• Assists less experienced team members with furthering their own development during the course of engagements.

Employees at all levels are expected to:

• Understand our Operating Principles; make them the guidelines for how you do your job.
• Own the customer experience - think and act in ways that put our customers first, give them seamless digital options at every touchpoint, and make them promoters of our products and services.
• Know your stuff - be enthusiastic learners, users and advocates of our game-changing technology, products and services, especially our digital tools and experiences.
• Win as a team - make big things happen by working together and being open to new ideas.
• Be an active part of the Net Promoter System - a way of working that brings more employee and customer feedback into the company - by joining huddles, making callbacks and helping us elevate opportunities to do better for our customers.
• Drive results and growth.
• Respect and promote inclusion & diversity.
• Do what's right for each other, our customers, investors and our communities.

Disclaimer: This information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications.