Senior Data Analyst

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Immediate need for a talented Senior Data Analyst . This is a 12+ Months Contract opportunity with long-term potential and is located in McLean, VA (Hybrid) . Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.

Job ID: 24-23453

Pay Range: $45 - $50/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).

Key Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with cross functional teams to understand business processes and controls to define data analytics strategies to monitor controls activities.
• Deliverable: Assist in the design and requirements gathering of control monitoring KPIs to determine ongoing control effectiveness.
• Work closely with IT SMEs to integrate control compliance source data with disparate systems to generate monitoring metrics/KPIs to regularly evaluate control effectiveness and detect potential weaknesses or anomalies.
• Deliverable: Create KPIs for Cyber controls to evaluate execution, completeness, and accuracy.
• Develop and regularly generate reports and dashboards to communicate monitoring results and findings to key stakeholders.
• Deliverable: Create high level dashboarding and reporting of monitoring KPIs for management consumption.
• Provide recommendations for enhancing control effectiveness and mitigating risks based on data-driven insights.
• Assist in the development of a controls monitoring strategy to set standards and best practices for control execution, monitoring, alerting, and reporting.
• Deliverable: Build requirements and draft an approved standard for controls monitoring.
• Develop and implement monitoring procedures and reporting to track control performance, identify gaps/deficiencies, remediate deficiencies within an SLA, and recommend areas for enhancement.
• Deliverable: Develop monitoring procedures and artifacts for in scope controls.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment of control design and execution with controls monitoring requirements.
• Deliverable: Align control designs and execution to the monitoring procedure.
• Based on monitoring procedures, conduct thorough assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of controls on a periodic basis to ensure execution, accuracy, and quality.
• Deliverable: Execute the created controls monitoring procedures.
• Enable reporting to provide timely updates to management on control status, issues, and remediation efforts.
• Deliverable: Productionalize reporting of control execution monitoring.
• Actively seek and report on opportunities to strengthen monitoring and reporting processes via automation.
• Deliverable: Define opportunities for automated monitoring and reporting.

Key Requirements and Technology Experience:

• Skills: Senior Data Analyst - SQL, Python, Tableau, AWS.
• Bachelor's degree in data science, statistics, computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of experience in data analysis, preferably in a compliance, audit, or risk management environment.
• 2+ years of experience in an agile or scrum environment.
• Proficiency in data manipulation and analysis with experience using SQL, Python, R, or similar.
• Experience with data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, or similar.
• Experience developing metrics for a continuous controls monitoring program is a plus.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritize tasks, and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Problem-solving and decision-making skills, with the ability to analyze complex issues and develop practical solutions.
• Knowledge of regulatory requirements and control frameworks (e.g., SOX, COSO) is a plus.
• 5+ years of experience in technology audit, compliance, or governance & risk management.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud environments.
• CISA, CISM, Security+, CISSP, CEH, CCSP, or AWS Certification.
• Experience developing and implementing a continuous controls monitoring program.

Our client is a leading Financial Industry and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.

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