Dexis Consulting Group
Data Scientist / Data Analyst - U.S. Government Agency
Washington, District of Columbia, United States · Staff+ · Contract
No sponsorshipDetected 35 days ago
Data AnalysisData ScienceStatisticsFinancial AnalysisAccountingProcurementResearchMentoringRisk Modeling
About the role
- At Dexis, you will experience a corporate culture of inclusiveness, respect, fairness, and trust.
- You will be given the means and mentorship needed to succeed, and your creativity will be rewarded.
- This is a full-time role based in Washington, D.C. and is contingent upon award.
Responsibilities
- Support audit and oversight teams by performing data acquisition, cleaning, normalization, profiling, exploratory analysis, statistical testing, risk scoring, control testing support, exception reporting, dashboard development, and preparation of analytic documentation suitable for inclusion in audit workpapers and reports.
- Support investigators and related personnel by performing investigative analytics, financial analysis, transaction tracing, relationship and link analysis, event sequencing, timeline development, entity resolution, and preparation of analytical outputs supporting investigative leads, case development, referrals, and prosecution support.
- Support fraud-risk modeling, hotline and triage analytics, data governance, data quality improvement, process automation, and development of reusable analytical scripts, templates, and dashboards.
- validate file completeness, schema consistency, format compatibility, and integrity
- perform de-duplication, standardization, field harmonization, and date/time normalization
- and create data dictionaries and metadata summaries where needed.
- Clean and normalize datasets; perform de-duplication, standardization, field harmonization, and date/time normalization; address missing values, outliers, malformed records, and join-key inconsistencies; and create data dictionaries and metadata summaries where needed.
- Merge and reconcile datasets from multiple sources, perform entity resolution and record linkage, and create analysis-ready datasets.
- Identify high-risk transactions, vendors, awards, payments, disbursements, travel, payroll, grants, loans, contracts, and other program activities; perform trend, variance, outlier, duplicate, gap, and exception analyses; and support fraud risk indicators and internal control assessments.
- Assist in the development of population analyses and sampling frames, identify relevant universes and stratification criteria, produce exception lists, and support reconciliations and completeness checks.
Requirements
- and document chain of custody or receipt logs when required.
- Contractor personnel shall possess a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, information systems, accounting, finance, economics, operations research, business analytics, or a closely related field.
- Contractor personnel shall possess a minimum of eight (8) years of specialized professional experience performing complex analytical work in support of data analytics, audit analytics, investigative analytics, fraud detection, forensic financial analysis, compliance review, or other closely related mission functions.
- Qualifying experience shall include the ability to collect, clean, validate, integrate, analyze, and present data from multiple sources
- develop dashboards, visualizations, and written analytical products
- and clearly communicate methods, assumptions, limitations, and results to Government stakeholders.
- The contractor shall be a U.S. Citizen and have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
Nice to have
- An advanced degree in a relevant discipline may be considered advantageous for more complex assignments.
- Experience supporting a Federal Office of Inspector General, Federal law enforcement organization, audit organization, or comparable oversight, accountability, or investigative environment.
- Experience supporting audits, inspections, evaluations, investigations, hotline analysis, or fraud-risk activities.
- Experience handling sensitive, nonpublic, investigative, procurement-sensitive, or law-enforcement-sensitive information.
- As a Dexis employee, you will be challenged, empowered, and mentored.
- Our motto is "find a way or make a way" - that's how Dexis goes "all in." How will you?
- Only those applicants who meet the above criteria will be contacted for interview.
Company info
- Dexis is a dynamic professional services firm dedicated to partnering with government and community leaders both in the U.S. and internationally to achieve critical social outcomes in a rapidly changing world.
Visa & Work Authorization
- Citizen and have the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance
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