Forensics - Technology - FDA & Discovery - Houston - Staff - S/F 2020

Job description

The EY Forensic & Integrity Services practice has a specialty technology consulting group with two service lines: Discovery Services and Forensic Data Analytics. Now is an exciting time to join the EY Forensic & Integrity Services team. Uncertain regulatory and enforcement priorities and changing business models continue to push companies and their business partners to operate with integrity while balancing their risks. Our professionals help organizations investigate alleged misconduct and mitigate cyber and financial risks.  We also perform electronic evidence discovery in response to external events. Our broad range of consulting services assists our clients with developing processes and identifying technologies to allow them to efficiently and effectively respond to investigations, breaches and/or discovery obligations.

The opportunity

As a Forensic & Integrity Services technology staff associate, you will be hired into the following consulting service areas (description below) across various clients, projects and industries.

 
Forensic Data Analytics Services

Forensic Data Analytics Services offer insights and factual evidence to help companies manage their legal, compliance and fraud risks. Our team combines extensive industry experience, data science and data analytics capabilities to help businesses detect and investigate instances of data breach, fraud, waste, misuse, abuse, corruption, noncompliance and cybercrime, and to assist them in regulatory or litigation responses. The candidate will have to define, design and develop client focused data analytics and data science algorithms, including leveraging the latest technologies such as natural language processing (NLP) and artificial intelligence (AI) . Additionally, the candidate will analyze and model structured data using advanced statistical methods, and implement algorithms and code necessary to perform analyses.   The candidate will also be expected to help continually innovate our data analytics tools, technology and client offerings, allowing our professionals to bring the latest concepts and services to our clients.

 
 
What to expect

You’ll find that every day at EY is a new opportunity, as you’ll have plenty of variety from working on different sectors, from banking to pharma to energy — where you’ll learn extensively about different IT infrastructures. We’ll need you to become an expert with our clients by guiding them through difficult situations within operations and systems. As part of that, you’ll need to learn a broad range of forensic tools and analytical technologies and develop an intimate knowledge of clients’ systems and inter-workings.

 

As a Forensic & Integrity Services staff, you will be introduced to EY Forensics’ various consulting service offerings and forensics, discovery, and analytics toolsets during an extensive three-week training program. Once you have developed basic skills related to Forensic Data Analytics you will have the opportunity to assist local and global engagement teams on various projects ranging from internal investigations to cyber incidents to discovery requests to consulting assessments—depending on your interests and travel preferences.

 
Your key responsibilities
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Develop strong relationships among team members and work together to deliver exceptional client service

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Build productive working relationships with clients

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Stay informed of business, economic and technological developments and their impact to our clients

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Understand trends in our core industries and work with leadership to develop innovative solutions to solve our clients’ complex business problems

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Collaborate with team members to think critically and assist in the development of enhanced policies, processes and technologies that will address clients’ needs

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Understand and analyze current business processes and utilize analytical skills and tools to help influence future strategic business decisions

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Utilize technology to continually learn, share knowledge with team members and develop skills in discovery, cyber and forensic data analytics

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Make an immediate impact with your work by writing code, collecting data from laptops and mobile devices, managing evidence, processing and searching data, modeling analytics insights in visualization dashboards, and documenting key decisions and recommendations for client delivery

To qualify for the role you must have
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Or be working toward, a bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, IT Management, Business Analytics, Data Science, Information System & Analytics, Engineering, Management Information Systems or equivalent

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A strong academic record, including, without limitation, course work that EY deems relevant to this position

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Superior analytical skills and creative problem solving skills are a necessity.

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Experience with relational databases such as SAP, Oracle, DB2, and/or Microsoft SQL Server,  experience researching and manipulating complex and large data sets; Hadoop experience a plus

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Experience with visualization tools such as Tableau, Spotfire or similar

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Experience in analytical and modelling tools, such as Python, R or SAS

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Experience with NLP methods for information extraction, topic modelling, parsing, and relationship extraction, Experience building machine learning systems by applying best-in-class solutions including feature engineering, and tuning of model hyper-parameters

 
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A driver’s license valid in the US

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Strong business process and analytical skills

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Flexibility and willingness to travel as well as work in excess of standard hours when necessary

Ideally, you’ll also have
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Course work or a minor in Business, Analytics, Finance or Accounting

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Experience in an information technology environment, preferably including programming in at least two language (SQL, R, Python, Java, etc.) and relational database design and management

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Proficiency in data analytics and experience using data visualization technologies

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Experience in Machine Learning and NLP methods

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Strong collaboration, teamwork and leadership skills

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Excellent writing and communication skills are a bonus

What we look for

We’re interested in flexible people with excellent interpersonal skills who are able to think quickly on their feet and react quickly to solve complex business problems as well as adapt to challenging situations. We are looking for team players who are collaborative and outgoing. You’ll also need to be a self-motivator who is eager to learn new solutions and actively think of how you can help the client. If you’re a problem solver who is eager to learn new technologies and have an interest in helping organizations manage and mitigate information governance risks, fraudulent activities and misconduct in the workplace, this is the role for you.

 

What working at EY offers

We offer a competitive compensation package where you’ll be rewarded based on your performance and recognized for the value you bring to our business. In addition, our Total Rewards package includes medical and dental coverage, pension and 401(k) plans, a minimum of 18 days of paid time off plus 12 observed holidays and a range of programs and benefits designed to support your physical, financial and social well-being.

 
Plus, we offer:
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Support and coaching from some of the most engaging colleagues in the profession

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Opportunities to develop new skills and progress in your career

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Gained flexibility through two-way communication and commitment with your engagement teams

 
About EY

As a global leader in assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services, we hire and develop the most passionate people in their field to help build a better working world. This starts with a culture that believes in giving you the training, opportunities and creative freedom to make things better. So that whenever you join, however long you stay, the exceptional EY experience lasts a lifetime.

 

If you can confidently demonstrate that you meet the criteria above, please contact us as soon as possible.

 
Make your mark. Apply today

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