Global Data Analytics Audit Senior

$130,000 - $232,000/Yr

Bytedance - New York, NY

Full-time - Mid Level

New York, NY

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Global Data Analytics Audit Senior position at ByteDance is a pivotal role within the Internal Audit team, which operates as a global function responsible for providing independent assurance and evaluating the company's risk management, governance, and internal control processes. The primary objective of this role is to ensure that these processes are designed effectively and are operating as intended. The Internal Audit team is tasked with planning and executing audit projects based on a risk-based audit plan, which involves evaluating financial, compliance, operational, and IT processes and controls. This role is essential in working collaboratively with various business functions to address risks and enhance the control environment through timely and comprehensive audit work, as well as tracking remediation actions until their completion. In this role, the successful candidate will be responsible for managing and implementing continuous auditing and data analytics scenarios. This includes identifying and analyzing risks, planning and prioritizing work, conducting interviews, and observing systems and operations. The candidate will develop queries and testing strategies to confirm the completeness and accuracy of the data used in data analytics and continuous audit testing. Additionally, the role involves owning and implementing a Continuous Auditing (CA) and Data Analytics (DA) strategy, which will translate into a running list of CA and DA use cases that automate the evaluation of the design and effectiveness of controls. The candidate will systematically organize the relationship between business processes, risks, and data, providing comprehensive and meaningful data knowledge accumulation to the audit team. The position also emphasizes the importance of developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with stakeholders, as well as continuing professional development in the audit profession, data analytics practices, machine learning, AI, and ByteDance products. The Internal Audit team operates under a hybrid work model, requiring employees to work in the office three days per week, fostering a collaborative and innovative environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand and identify an inventory of applications, databases, and data warehouses across ByteDance.
• Manage and implement continuous auditing and data analytics scenarios, including identifying and analyzing risks, planning and prioritizing the work, conducting interviews, and observing systems and operations.
• Develop queries and testing strategies, including techniques to confirm the completeness and accuracy of the data used in data analytics and continuous audit testing.
• Own and implement a Continuous Auditing (CA) and Data Analytics (DA) strategy that will translate into a running list of CA and DA use cases that can automate the evaluation of the design and effectiveness of controls.
• Systematically organize the relationship between business processes, risks, and data, as well as provide comprehensive and meaningful data knowledge accumulation to the audit team.
• Develop and maintain collaborative working relationships with stakeholders.
• Continue to develop and expand knowledge of the audit profession, data analytics practices, machine learning, AI, and ByteDance products through self-study, research, and continuing education efforts.

Requirements

• Experience building and managing a Continuous Auditing and Data Analytics program, including automating common analyses and recurring audit check procedures.
• Extracting data from data warehouses and databases (example: SQL DB's).
• Designing and maintaining Continuous Auditing queries and dashboards, developing controls to maintain the integrity of the data and queries used for analytics and execution of multiple projects.
• Experience developing, implementing, and maintaining analytics dashboards that address financial/operating and technology objectives.
• Experience in FinTech, Financial Services, Internet, Retail, SaaS or technology-related companies is highly preferred.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree or above in a quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering or Operations Research with solid theoretical knowledge and 3+ years practical experience of project management, data analytics and scripting capabilities (example: SQL, Python, R etc.).

Benefits

• 100% premium coverage for employee medical insurance, approximately 75% premium coverage for dependents, and a Health Savings Account (HSA) with a company match.
• Dental, Vision, Short/Long term Disability, Basic Life, Voluntary Life and AD&D insurance plans.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Options like Health Care, Limited Purpose and Dependent Care.
• 10 paid holidays per year plus 17 days of Paid Personal Time Off (PPTO) and 10 paid sick days per year.
• 12 weeks of paid Parental leave and 8 weeks of paid Supplemental Disability.
• Mental and emotional health benefits through EAP and Lyra.
• 401K company match, gym and cellphone service reimbursements.