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Together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future.
We will do this together — with customers, partners and colleagues. We will fight for others, not against: We will stand up for and champion everyone’s access to opportunities. The status quo is not good enough … we believe every individual and every community deserves access to financial opportunities. We are determined to support both individuals and communities in reaching a better financial future. We know that reaching this future depends on our actions today.
Like our Purpose Statement, Voya believes in being bold and committed to action. We are committed to a work environment where the differences that we are born with — and those we acquire throughout our lives — are understood, valued and intentionally pursued. We believe that our employees own our culture and have a responsibility to foster an environment where we all feel comfortable bringing our whole selves to work. Purposefully bringing our differences together to positively influence our culture, serve our clients and enrich our communities is essential to our vision.
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Please Note: This position allows remote work from home but will require travel to our Voya office as business requires. Candidates must be located within a 100-mile radius from your assigned office.
The Contributions You’ll Make
At Voya, together we fight for everyone’s opportunity for a better financial future, and Internal Audit and Advisory Services support Voya’s vision by providing objective assurance and advisory services on controls that help Voya manage risk and enhance business performance. The Digital Center of Excellence partners with audit teams and other lines of defenses to assess the risks and operational effectiveness of control processes by leveraging analytics and data science techniques. The Data Analyst will focus on identifying key risks across Voya such as reputational risk, fraud risk, operational risk etc. by using analytical methodologies that allow for an in-depth review of business processes, performance, and risk metrics.
The Data Analyst will execute the data analytics projects to deliver actionable insights in support of risk assurance.
/Responsibilities

• Identify hidden patterns by exploratory data analysis, visualization techniques, or any other descriptive analytics approaches
• Contribute to data analytics projects under direction of the Senior Data Analyst and Manager
• Develop interactive dashboards to highlight risk, identify emerging risk and/or enable auditors to further investigate data
• Document analytical procedures and results in user-friendly format for non-technical consumers
• Execute ETL: extract, transform, load, and perform data cleaning and processing, data engineering, modelling, and visualization
• Meet with process and data owners to understand key risk factors, controls, systems, and data sources
• As part of Internal Audit and Advisory Services you will be working to provide risk oversight, objective assurance, and support audit plan through the execution of risk focused analytics
• Build automated data analytics workflow
• Identify data anomalies and outliers through sophisticated data visualization techniques or by unsupervised learning techniques
• Research and identify upcoming and disruptive data science tools and techniques that can be implemented in existing or new use-cases to help enhance risk coverage
• Take initiative by learning new tools and technologies, researching user-cases, and developing analytics proof of concepts
• Review data quality in terms of sparsity, accuracy, and completeness to assess if it could lead to inaccurate inferences or analytics results

Minimum Knowledge & Experience

• Proficiency using Tableau Desktop to develop maintain and enhance interactive dashboards
• Proficiency with analytical coding languages such as R, Python or SAS Base, ACL Scripting etc.
• Bachelor’s degree (preferably in a quantitative or business field) with a minimum of 2 - 4 years of experience in Data Analytics, Data Science or Business Intelligence
• Knowledge of Data Science lifecycle: Problem Definition, Business Understanding, Data Sourcing, Data Mining and Exploratory Analysis, Data Cleaning and Preparation, Feature Engineering, Data Modelling, Model Evaluation, Deployment and Maintenance
• Strong understanding of RDBMS: Relational Database Management System and experience with writing SQL scripts
• Strong verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to collaborate in a cross-functional environment and under minimal direction

Preferred Knowledge & Experience

• Experience in or strong understanding of Internal Audit and Financial Industries
• Technical Certifications: ACL Certified Data Analyst (ACDA), IBM Data Science, SAS Data Science, Alteryx certification or Tableau certification.
• Experience in working with semi-structured or unstructured data
• Hands-on experience with Databricks to create analytical workflows and communicate with disparate data sources
• Experience in Audit data analytics or track record of using data analytics techniques to satisfy audit needs, identifying risk or fraud
• Experience with Azure cloud platform, with working knowledge of Azure Data Factory
• Experience with creating and testing proof of concept data models on R or Python
• Knowledge of NLP: Natural Language Processing, and web scrapping
• Proficient in creating tables and views within a SQL database and writing stored procedures to automate ETL.
• Background in one or more of Voya’s core businesses: Retirement, Employee Benefits, Investment Management
• Master’s degree in Data Science, Business Analytics or Computer Science
• Experience with using Tableau Server to maintain dashboards, provision access and schedule data refreshes.

Compensation Pay Disclosure
Voya is committed to pay that’s fair and equitable, which means comparable pay for comparable roles and responsibilities.
The below annual base salary range reflects the expected hiring range(s) for this position in the location(s) listed. In addition to base salary, Voya offers incentive opportunities (i.e., annual cash incentives, sales incentives, and/or long-term incentives) based on the role to reward the achievement of annual performance objectives. Please note that this salary information is solely for candidates hired to perform work within one of these locations, and refers to the amount Voya Financial is willing to pay at the time of this posting.
Actual compensation offered may vary from the posted salary range based upon the candidate’s geographic location, work experience, education, licensure requirements and/or skill level and will be finalized at the time of offer. Salaries for part-time roles will be prorated based upon the agreed upon number of hours to be regularly worked.
$80,130 - $133,540 USD
Be Well. Stay Well.
Voya provides the resources that can make a difference in your lives. To us, this means thriving physically, financially, socially and emotionally. Voya benefits are designed to help you do just that. That’s why we offer an array of plans, programs, tools and resources with one goal in mind: To help you and your family be well and stay well.
What We Offer

• Voya Retirement Plan – employer paid cash balance retirement plan (4%)
• Tuition reimbursement up to $5,250/year
• Health, dental, vision and life insurance plans
• Paid volunteer time — 40 hours per calendar year
• 401(k) Savings plan – with generous company matching contributions (up to 6%)
• Paid time off – including 20 days paid time off, nine paid company holidays and a flexible Diversity Celebration Day.

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Critical Skills
At Voya, we have identified the following critical skills which are key to success in our culture:

• Learning Agility: Openness to new ways of thinking and acquiring new skills to retain a competitive advantage.
• Critical Thinking: Thoughtful process of analyzing data and problem solving data to reach a well-reasoned solution.
• Team Mentality: Partnering effectively to drive our culture and execute on our common goals.
• Business Acumen: Appreciation and understanding of the financial services industry in order to make sound business decisions.
• Customer Focused: Passionate drive to delight our customers and offer unique solutions that deliver on their expectations.

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Equal Employment Opportunity
Voya Financial is an equal-opportunity employer. Voya Financial provides equal opportunity to qualified individuals regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, citizenship status, religion, age, disability, veteran status, creed, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other status protected by state or local law.
Reasonable Accommodations
We are committed to maintaining a diverse workforce. This commitment governs all decisions related to employment, including selection, development and compensation. It also includes an employee’s request for reasonable accommodation. All employees will be treated in a manner free from discrimination or harassment. Voya is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for persons with disabilities, including reasonable accommodation when needed. If you believe you need a reasonable accommodation in order to search for a job opening or to submit an application, please see our resources for applicants with disabilities.
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