Senior Advisor, Tech Data Solutions – Comcast Global Audit

Job Summary

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.
• Leads audit engagement objective discussions with CGA leaders and provides strategic recommendations on data analytics approaches to support audit goals and streamline the audit.
• 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 Core, Snowflake, Tableau, AWS, MS SQL Server, Oracle BI, Databricks, Alteryx, Spark, and Python 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 for Info Sec / Cyber / Technology data are accurate and sustainable.
• Leads discussions regarding data solution roadmap for prioritizing improvements 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.
• Offers management oversight, training, review and guidance to the staff.
• 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 assess 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).

• Maintains a strong executive presence and proactively develops / maintains relationships with key business partners.
• Understands emerging AI capabilities and identify appropriate opportunities to apply AI within data delivery and audit analytics, working in partnership with the AI & Automation function.
• Performs effectively as a project leader across engagements.
• Shows flexibility and accountability in prioritizing and completing tasks, allocating/re-allocating work across engagement team members, optimizing synergies as well as capacity, as well as 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.
• Manages team members in understanding and executing data analytics and automation activities.
• Provide ongoing feedback and follow-up to team members on work completion and performance, as well as ensuring timely delivery of data deliverables for audit engagements.
• Manages team members in ensuring data deliverables supporting audit engagements are designed with shared logic and developed consistent, accurate, and scalable.
• Assists in fostering a team-oriented environment and helps with the development of a diverse and highly motivated professional staff with a passion for excellence by providing meaningful and challenging assignments.
• 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 and develop 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.
• Manages and provides coaching, guidance and development to engagement teams and direct reports.
• Exhibits a desire to be a business expert with the Data team and provides assistance to Company management as necessary.

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