Data Solutions Advisor

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Job Summary

The Data Solutions Advisor plays a leading role in driving best practices supporting Comcast Global Audit (CGA) by identifying, monitoring, and mitigating risk through the integration of advanced data analytics, engineering, automation, and business analysis. This role plays a critical part contributing to audit engagements in shaping audit scope areas by generating innovative insights and scalable data solutions, as well as overseeing team execution. As part of CGA team, the Data Solutions Advisor is responsible for: • Analyzing complex business challenges to inform audit planning and execution • Developing and maintaining standard and non-standard data products and reporting deliverables • Designing and implementing scalable data solutions to support audit objectives • Identifying and executing automation opportunities to enhance audit efficiency and effectiveness • Overseeing other team members in driving consistency across data deliverables • Proactively identifying improvement areas that can lead to increased standardization and automation, strategically aligning with audit senior leaders on ways to improve and streamline audit testing. This role offers broad exposure to the Comcast Corporation through the audit process and provides opportunities to influence risk management strategies through data-driven insights.

Job Description

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.
• Discusses audit engagement objectives with CGA team members and recommends data analytics approaches to support audit goals.
• Extracts, manipulates, transforms, models, visualizes, and analyzes accurate, relevant, timely, and cohesive data to support the audit lifecycle.
• Identifies audit scope areas that can be automated or repeated through data analytics and leads the project efforts to schedule and implement, aligning key stakeholders on the change impacts.
• Ensures all data is secure and follows company policies regarding data classification.

• Analyzes data to assess compliance with established policies/procedures, best practices, US GAAP, and legal/governmental requirements.
• Applies analytical models (e.g., regression, simulation, statistical) to audit scope areas to identify outliers, trends, and projections.
• Uses data concepts, tools, and programming techniques including SQL, dbt, Snowflake, Tableau, AWS, MS SQL Server, Oracle BI, Teradata, Databricks, Alteryx, Spark, Python, and R to perform ETL and data analysis activities.
• Develops process flows, prototypes, and requirements documentation to accelerate stakeholder understanding and guide solution development.
• Creates, documents, and executes support process steps and test procedures to ensure data deliverables are accurate and sustainable.
• Facilitates discussions that lead to decision-making throughout the lifecycle of creating and enhancing data solutions.
• Prepares clear and well-organized analysis workpapers, documenting root-cause (as applicable), work performed, findings, and recommendations.
• Creates graphical reports and executive presentations to effectively summarize analysis and findings.
• Manages the activities of Data or Automation team members and keeps the team on track to complete assignments.
• Accountable for and reviews team workpapers, presentations, and other documentation to ensure they are clear, complete, and well-organized.
• Consistently exercises independent judgment and discretion in matters of significance.
• Assists with managing, scheduling, monitoring, and maintaining automated processes in production.
• Supports department objectives and performs other duties and responsibilities, as assigned.

How You Deliver

• Demonstrates the ability to quickly grasp complex subject matter and apply strong analytical skills and business knowledge to assessing processes, risks, and controls.
• Stays current on data analytics trends (e.g., new tools, statistical methods, visualization techniques) and emerging technologies that impact audit work (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.
• Works with discretion applying sound judgment regarding work details on assignments of a varied and difficult nature while maintaining personal and broader team accountability and ownership.

• Utilizes creative thinking, individual initiative, and flexibility in prioritizing and completing tasks.
• Exhibits willingness to tackle new areas and challenging topics.
• Demonstrates the ability to work in a complex, dynamic, and fast-paced environment.
• Assists less experienced team members in understanding and executing data analytics and automation activities.
• Provide ongoing feedback and follow-up to less experienced team members on work completion and performance, as well as ensuring timely delivery of data deliverables for audit engagements.
• Assists less experienced team members in ensuring data deliverables supporting audit engagements are designed with shared logic and developed consistent, accurate, and scalable.
• Provides coaching, guidance, and development on interactions with business management and stakeholders.
• Motivates engagement team to deliver high quality work on time.
• Identifies opportunities for improvement to team activities, tools, and training.
• Transparently keeps CGA management informed of findings / status / important issues as they arise.
• 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 may be required at up to approximately 20%.

How You Partner

• Collaborates with members of CGA engagement teams to understand audit activities and identify ways that data analytics and/or automation can enhance overall work product, productivity, or audit coverage.
• Partners strategically with members of audit senior leadership across engagement activities, understanding their perspectives, and proposing / discussing solutions that manage risk and optimize team resources.
• 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.
• Engages and builds collaborative relationships with key business partners, other risk functions, and system owners in engagement activities (e.g., Legal, Human Resources, Security, TPX, EBI, etc.), as needed.
• Coaches audit team members on data analytics, automation techniques, and business knowledge.
• Assists engagement team in developing their understanding of relevant business risks and trains team on how to consider when planning and executing engagements.

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 actively applies to engagements.
• Manages and mentors engagement team members to develop audit, data, and business knowledge.
• Assists less experienced team members with furthering their own development.

Comcast is an equal opportunity workplace. We will consider all qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Skills:

Structured Query Language (SQL); Tableau (Software); Analytical Thinking; Python (Programming Language); Communication; dbt Core; Team Collaboration

Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work. Most sales positions are eligible for a Commission under the terms of an applicable plan, while most non-sales positions are eligible for a Bonus. Additionally, Comcast provides best-in-class Benefits to eligible employees. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most, and should help you care for those who matter most. That’s why we provide an array of options, expert guidance and always-on tools, that are personalized to meet the needs of your reality – to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. Please visit the compensation and benefits summary on our careers site for more details.

Education

Bachelor's Degree

While possessing the stated degree is preferred, Comcast also may consider applicants who hold some combination of coursework and experience, or who have extensive related professional experience.

Relevant Work Experience

5-7 Years