Senior Audit Data Analyst

About the role

As a Senior Audit Data Analyst in Group Internal Audit (GIA), you will provide analytics support to our audit teams while using GIA's agile delivery framework. The role provides an opportunity to combine analytics expertise and agile working practices to provide assurance and business insights that support Swiss Re's vision of resilience.

 

Your key tasks will involve leading and developing data-driven audit approaches by discussing key risks and controls with business auditors and understanding relevant business processes. You will then identify and acquire the required data, do the agreed analysis and discuss results with both the audit team and auditees. Furthermore, you will also help to develop the data skills of junior analysts and auditors by sharing your knowledge through on-the-job coaching.

 

The Audit Analytics Center of Expertise provides GIA with audit analytics capabilities as well as staff passionate about delivering end-to-end solutions and advanced analytics that help improve the effectiveness and efficiency of internal auditing at Swiss Re.

 

About the team

Group Internal Audit provide independent and objective assurance that assists the Board of Directors and Group Executive Committee to protect the assets, reputation and sustainability of the organization. We perform audit activities designed to assess the adequacy and effectiveness of the Group's internal control systems, and to add value through improving the Group's operations.

 

About You 

 

Education and experience:

• University degree in Computer Science, Engineering or a similar field.
• Minimum of 7 years of work experience in a relevant area.
• Proficient in SQL and Python.
• Experience translating business requirements into an analytics use case.
• Demonstrated ability to manage the end-to-end analytics delivery.
• Experience with agile working practices (e.g. scrum).
• Experience working with internal audit or other assurance providers such as risk management and compliance (preferred).
• Experience working with GenAI/large language models (LLMs) and demonstrated ability utilising them in the audit lifecycle (risk assessment, scoping, testing, reporting).
• Demonstrated ability to apply machine learning algorithms that solve a specific use case (preferred).

 

Personal skills:

• Critical thinker that sees the "big picture" (e.g. overall themes, trends, goals), generates innovative ideas and solutions to problems and makes recommendations in the face of complexity, conflicting pressures and ambiguous circumstances.
• Professional communicator, able to gain and maintain a trusted relationship while delivering difficult messages
• Structured analyst, capable to adopt and use data-driven auditing, including data analytics, to assess risks, scope audits and test controls. Strong attention to detail.
• Team worker, able to listen to others but also influence in order to see the wider picture and achieve a vision.

 

The estimated base salary range for this position is $113,000 to $200,000.  The specific salary offered for this, or any given role will take into account a number of factors including but not limited to job location, scope of role, qualifications, complexity/specialization/scarcity of talent, experience, education, and employer budget.  At Swiss Re, we take a "total compensation approach" when making compensation decisions. This means that we consider all components of compensation in their totality (such as base pay, short-and long-term incentives, and benefits offered), in setting individual compensation.

 

About Swiss Re

 

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime. Combining e