Data Analytics Specialist

The Government Internal Audit Agency (GIAA) is driven by its unparalleled access across government to build ‘better insights, better outcomes’ for our clients.

This role offers a strong platform for career progression within the Agency and the wider civil service, providing opportunities to develop leadership, stakeholder engagement and strategic relationship management skills across government.

The Agency’s unique access across the public sector exposes you to different risk and control environments, allowing you to gain insights, apply experience, contribute meaningfully, and continue developing professionally.

This role is to be a specialist in the application of data analytics in our Data Analytics team. You will develop scripts and applications using R and Python to prepare data, run advanced data analytics and report findings to auditors and investigators using impactful visualisations. You will use LLMs and AI models in your analysis and develop tools to enable colleagues and external customers to safely and effectively use AI.

You will provide training and support to increase data analytics capabilities across the organisation. You will also engage with data teams across government and in the private sector, and support research and development activities to learn the latest innovative techniques in data analytics. As you apply these to GIAA activities, you will improve the efficiency of our organisation.

Job description

Develop scripts and applications using R, Python, and various web application frameworks like Shiny and Django, to carry out advanced data analytics to support internal audit and counter fraud and investigation (CF&I) activities across many government organisations.

Produce and present reports detailing analysis outputs and visualisations for GIAA colleagues and customers.

Document, maintain and collaborate on code using tools such as DevOps and git.

Suggest and implement improvements to our current scripts, packages, data pipelines, applications and quality assurance processes, to incorporate coding best practices and quality standards.

Lead activities to upskill members of the GIAA data analytics network and promote the benefits and use of data analytics across the agency.

Engage with data teams across government and the private sector to investigate new data analytics approaches suitable for internal audit and CF&I activities.