DATA SCIENTIST

Defense Finance and Accounting Services (DFAS) mission is to lead the Department of Defense (DoD) in finance and accounting by ensuring the delivery of efficient, exceptional quality pay and financial information.

Duties

• Utilizes department’s business, financial, and accounting data assets to develop raw data into clean, usable format to perform statistical analysis on patterns, trends, and anomalies within business intelligence tools such as Microsoft Power BI.
• Develops, constructs and performs a number of complex and systematic data analytics projects, reconciliations, and studies throughout the enterprise.
• Generates actionable insights applying advanced statistical techniques, for example, predictive statistical models and simulations, segmentation analysis, customer profiling, analysis, survey design, and data mining.
• Utilizes communication skills to interface, collaborate, and prepare presentations for project stakeholders, leaders, and senior executives. Prepares and delivers briefings regarding the progress and/or results of projects/studies.
• Ensures all analytics efforts are conducted in accordance with information security best business practices.

Requirements

• Must be a U.S. Citizen or National
• Background or Security Investigation – see the Additional Information field below for more details.
• Registered for Selective Service (males born after 12-31-1959)
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Obtain/Maintain Financial Management Certification
• New employees to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov.
• The incumbent of this position will be required to be physically on-site full-time, regular telework is not authorized for this position.

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