Senior Data Analyst

Marlborough, MA, United States

Additional Location(s):  US-MN-Arden Hills

Diversity - Innovation - Caring - Global Collaboration - Winning Spirit - High Performance

At Boston Scientific, we’ll give you the opportunity to harness all that’s within you by working in teams of diverse and high-performing employees, tackling some of the most important health industry challenges. With access to the latest tools, information and training, we’ll help you in advancing your skills and career. Here, you’ll be supported in progressing – whatever your ambitions.

About the role:

The Senior Data Analyst, Global Internal Audit (GIA) will be responsible for planning, organizing, and executing analytics related to internal audits throughout the Company (including IT, financial, operational, compliance, consulting, and investigative analytics). In addition, this role will support Finance analytics needs related to planning, development, and reporting as well as developing new continuous monitoring activities at BSC. These continuous monitoring activities will be transformative for how GIA will do its work, reducing manual audit procedures and leveling up auditors to be strategic change agents.

The ideal candidate will bring persistence, curiosity, and creativity and apply them to a variety of business problems.  A successful senior analyst will generally iterate and solve most problems without assistance, but will clarify and agree scope, consider and incorporate feedback, and communicate quickly when stuck.

Key responsibilities will include:

⦁    Maintain, enhance, and deliver key analytics to GIA management and audit team to help inform and develop field strategies

⦁    Lead new continuous monitoring projects, partnering with financial and operational auditors to brainstorm ideas and ensure coverage against previously performed audit procedures

⦁    Develop solutions to a variety of complex problems, while exercising sound judgment and professional skepticism

⦁    Collaborate with Finance, IT, and end-users to establish and periodically review user access to GIA – DA projects on Tableau Server, Microsoft SharePoint, and Alteryx Server

⦁    Support GIA management in assessing risk based on key business trends and risk ratings available from our audit management platform, AuditBoard

⦁    Perform detailed data analysis on assigned projects by achieving each step of the audit data analytics lifecycle: Acquisition, cleansing, profiling, hypothesizing, solving, and visualizing

⦁    Be a good citizen data scientist – Conform to team standards, company platform guidelines, and general best practices for dashboards, workflows, and other technologies

⦁    As needed, perform financial/operational or IT audit procedures in accordance with IIA and department standards:

⦁    Achieve audit objectives with audit lead and Fin/Ops manager guidance

⦁    Partner with management to develop appropriate corrective actions

⦁    Ensure workpapers are complete, accurate, and timely produced

Distribution of work time in this role:

⦁    About 60%: Building new and maintaining existing Alteryx workflows, Tableau dashboards, and related infrastructure.  This may include:

⦁    Creating continuous monitoring scripts

⦁    Wrangling datasets for audit teams

⦁    Confirming and explaining the meaning behind a visualization

⦁    Adjusting a tax workflow

⦁    Ad hoc analysis for a specific investigative or business purpose

⦁    About 10%: Attending and performing a financial/operational or IT audit

⦁    About 10%: Documenting personal and team workflows and visualizations

⦁    About 20%: Personal development, networking, and participating in organizational activities

Required Qualifications:

⦁    Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Information Systems, Mathematics, Finance, Economics, or related degree

⦁    2 years of experience

Preferred Qualifications:

⦁    Knowledge of Tableau, HANA, Alteryx, Microsoft VBA, and/or SQL

⦁    SAP experience

⦁    Medical device industry experience

⦁    3-5 years of experience

⦁    CPA, CIA, Alteryx or Tableau certified

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Requisition ID:  579428

As a leader in medical science for more than 40 years, we are committed to solving the challenges that matter most – united by a deep caring for human life. Our mission to advance science for life is about transforming lives through innovative medical solutions that improve patient lives, create value for our customers, and support our employees and the communities in which we operate. Now more than ever, we have a responsibility to apply those values to everything we do – as a global business and as a global corporate citizen.

So, choosing a career with Boston Scientific (NYSE: BSX) isn’t just business, it’s personal. And if you’re a natural problem-solver with the imagination, determination, and spirit to make a meaningful difference to people worldwide, we encourage you to apply and look forward to connecting with you!

At Boston Scientific, we recognize that nurturing a diverse and inclusive workplace helps us be more innovative and it is important in our work of advancing science for life and improving patient health. That is why we stand for inclusion, equality, and opportunity for all. By embracing the richness of our unique backgrounds and perspectives, we create a better, more rewarding place for our employees to work and reflect the patients, customers, and communities we serve. Boston Scientific is proud to be an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.

Boston Scientific maintains a prohibited substance free workplace. Pursuant to Va. Code § 2.2-4312 (2000), Boston Scientific is providing notification that the unlawful manufacture, sale, distribution, dispensation, possession, or use of a controlled substance or marijuana is prohibited in the workplace and that violations will result in disciplinary action up to and including termination.

Please be advised that certain US based positions, including without limitation field sales and service positions that call on hospitals and/or health care centers, require acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination status.  Candidates will be notified during the interview and selection process if the role(s) for which they have applied require proof of vaccination as a condition of employment.  Boston Scientific continues to evaluate its policies and protocols regarding the COVID-19 vaccine and will comply with all applicable state and federal law and healthcare credentialing requirements.   As employees of the Company, you will be expected to meet the ongoing requirements for your roles, including any new requirements, should the Company’s policies or protocols change with regard to COVID-19 vaccination.

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