Data Analyst

Significance is a woman-owned consulting firm serving the federal government.  We are known for building trusted relationships within our teams and with our clients and hiring the highest-level experts who implement innovative solutions. We also like to have fun!  Our focus on culture has contributed to Significance being named a Washington Business Journal Best Place to Work each of the last five years.
We are seeking a Data Analyst to support work with the SBA (Small Business Administration) in Washington, DC. This position is contingent upon contract award. Candidates should have a minimum of 5+ years of experience with the following:o Providing advice and performing work on the scope of data analysis, how data should be collected, ETL of data, and analytic software to support engagement objectives, design, data collection and analysis, message development, and report writing.o Identifying patterns, trends, outliers, and correlations.o Providing expert support to data scientists and other analysts relating to data analysis and analytics.o Assisting with the application of advanced analytics to solve problems, assess risk, and predict future behavior.o Both assisting and independently developing reports, analyses, models, and dashboards to include validation, testing and documentation using tools such as SQL and PowerBI. o Providing independent validation and verification of SBA analyses, models, and dashboards.o Assisting and performing data quality reviews and documentation.o Assisting with review of the data analytic monitoring techniques based on existing federal data sets, focus on providing real time detection of high-risk transaction processing, and provide exception reporting of program quality performance and compliance criteria.o Identifying and documenting data required from SBA and other data sets to meet quality assurance, compliance, and reporting objectives.o Reviewing effectiveness of the execution and monitoring of electronic review protocols to include preventive and detective data analytics and exception reporting.o Translating complex analysis results into a simplified, concise narrative to support decision making.o Adapting to and prioritizing changing business requirements.

Required Skills

• 5+ years of specialized experience which includes developing data sets, complex analysis, automation of analysis, and visualization products; or utilizing programming language tools for data manipulation, analysis, visualization, and reporting.
• Active Public Trust security clearance, or ability to obtain
• Bachelor's or higher degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Data Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Science, or field directly related to the position.

Desired Skills

• Experience developing a fraud analytics strategy to address the highest priority fraud risks in the highest risk programs (based on program size ($) and materiality), including a robust data analytics program that focuses on the identification of transactional anomalies that are further investigated by a team of analysts and communicated to the appropriate stakeholder depending on the circumstance and established SBA Fraud Risk Response Policy.
• Identifying and documenting the current systems and processes utilized in program recovery operations.
• Identifying opportunities (systems and/or processes) to maximize agency-wide recovery efforts by conducting data analysis into various recovered sources and delivering a document detailing recommendations/courses of action to maximize recovery effort.
• Providing data literacy training on fraud analytics for SBA staff and executives to assist the agency in building capacity for fraud analytics.

Significance, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, gender, color, age, sexual orientation, gender identification, national origin, religion, marital status, ancestry, disability, protected veteran status, or any other factor prohibited by applicable law.We are an E-Verify Employerhttps://e-verify.uscis.gov/web/media/resourcesContents/E-Verify_Participation_Poster.pdfhttps://www.e-verify.gov/sites/default/files/everify/posters/IER_RighttoWorkPoster.pdf
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