Data Analyst I: Forecasting, Modeling & Insights

Civicworks; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 85,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

New York Department of Taxation and Finance is seeking a Data Analyst 1 to join the Office of Data Analytics. You will build business solutions, produce forecasts, and analyze data across the department.

Responsibilities include data preparation, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and presenting results to policy and business audiences to support fraud detection, revenue forecasting, and program evaluation.

Qualifications

• Six years of experience in data visualization, statistical models, and data mining tools.
• Strong data analysis skills and programming experience with SPSS, SAS, Python, R, Stata, Tableau, or SQL.
• Advanced knowledge of statistics and machine learning.
• Ability to communicate analytical results clearly to policy, business, and technical audiences.
• Experience with data wrangling, multivariate analysis, and predictive modeling.

Responsibilities

• Data preparation and cleaning across department datasets.
• Perform statistical analysis and develop predictive models.
• Build forecasts and data-driven business solutions for policy audiences.
• Present results to policy and business stakeholders.

Skills

Data visualization

Statistical models

Data mining tools

Data analysis

Programming languages

Education

Equivalent combination of education and experience

Tools

SPSS

SAS

Python

R

Stata

Tableau

SQL

Job description

New York Department of Taxation and Finance is seeking a Data Analyst 1 to join the Office of Data Analytics. You will build business solutions, produce forecasts, and analyze data across the department.

Responsibilities include data preparation, statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and presenting results to policy and business audiences to support fraud detection, revenue forecasting, and program evaluation.