Data Analyst I: Forecasts, Insights & Dashboards

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance; City of Albany (NY); On-site; USD 59,000 - 66,000; Full time

Job summary

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance seeks a Data Analyst Trainee 1/2 to support the Office of Data Analytics. You will work under supervision to build business solutions, produce forecasts, and analyze program performance across fraud detection and revenue forecasting projects.

Responsibilities include data preparation, creating data dictionaries, conducting univariate and multivariate analyses, and developing basic predictive models while adhering to HR and internal control

Qualifications

• Six years of experience in data visualization, and statistical models and data mining tools.
• Associates degree AND four years of experience in data visualization, and statistical models and data mining tools.
• Bachelor’s degree AND two years of experience in data visualization, and statistical models and data mining tools.
• Master’s degree in data or computer science, informatics, economics, statistics, mathematics, or a related field AND one year of experience in data visualization, and statistical models and data mining tools.
• Ph.D. in data or computer science, informatics, economics, statistics, mathematics, or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Preparing data for analysis and reporting using data wrangling techniques (joining, merging, stacking, cleansing, transposing, aggregating, transforming, etc.).
• Creating and maintaining data dictionaries and specifications documents.
• Producing and interpreting univariate analyses to identify patterns, outliers, and errors in data.
• Performing multivariate analyses using correlations, regression analysis (linear, nonlinear, tree, etc.), and multidimensional graphical techniques.
• Developing basic predictive models and assessing the results to ensure validity, applicability, efficiency, and accuracy.
• Summarizing and presenting analytical results using tables, graphs, dashboards, fact sheets, and written reports.
• Writing clear and concise results summaries for policy, business, and technical audiences.
• Maintaining knowledge of the Department’s data sets and data storage areas.
• Assisting in the systems management, data management, and testing of systems used for analysis; developing scripts and data pipelines to automate these tasks.
• Complying with Office of Human Resources Management, Affinitive Action, Code of Conduct, Ethics, and Internal Control policies and procedures.
• Adhering to Department's time and attendance rules and regulations.

Skills

Data analysis

Programming experience

Statistical methods

Education

Bachelor's degree

Associates degree

Master's degree

Ph.D.

Tools

SPSS Modeler

SPSS Statistics

SAS

Python

R

Stata

Tableau

SQL

GIS

Job description

New York State Department of Taxation and Finance seeks a Data Analyst Trainee 1/2 to support the Office of Data Analytics. You will work under supervision to build business solutions, produce forecasts, and analyze program performance across fraud detection and revenue forecasting projects.

Responsibilities include data preparation, creating data dictionaries, conducting univariate and multivariate analyses, and developing basic predictive models while adhering to HR and internal control