Data Scientist / Data Analyst (OIG)

Culmen International; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Culmen International is seeking a Data Scientist / Data Analyst to support the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation. The role involves advanced analytics for audits and investigations. The candidate will perform data cleaning, statistical analysis, and develop dashboards.

Qualifications include an advanced degree and relevant experience in federal auditing or law enforcement. This is a full-time, on-site position in Washington, DC.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting a Federal Office of Inspector General, federal law enforcement, or audit organization.
• Experience with investigations, hotline analysis, and fraud-risk modeling.
• Advanced degree in a relevant field.

Responsibilities

• Collect and prepare data for audits and investigations.
• Conduct risk-based analytics and prepare analytical products.
• Develop dashboards and visualizations for monitoring.

Skills

Data analysis

Statistical methods

Machine learning

NLP

Visualizations

Education

Advanced degree in a relevant field

Tools

Analytical software

BI platforms

Job description

Culmen International is seeking a Data Scientist / Data Analyst (OIG) to support the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) Office of Inspector General (OIG). This role provides advanced analytics in support of audits, evaluations, inspections, and investigative/law‑enforcement activities. The position is full‑time, on‑site in Washington, DC, with occasional ad‑hoc telework authorized by the COR.

Program Management & Work Intake

• Receive and clarify analytic task requests from OIG stakeholders
• Define objectives, data needs, assumptions, and timelines
• Track milestones, deliverables, and risks

Data Acquisition, Preparation & Integration

• Collect data from government systems and approved external sources
• Clean, normalize, validate, and transform structured and unstructured datasets
• Perform entity resolution, record linkage, and dataset integration
• Maintain documentation for reproducibility and defensibility

Audit Analytics Support

• Conduct risk‑based analytics, trend analysis, exception testing, and sampling support
• Prepare charts, tables, dashboards, and workpaper‑ready analytic products

Investigative & Law‑Enforcement Analytics

• Perform financial/transactional analysis, tracing, anomaly detection, and link analysis
• Build timelines, geospatial analysis (when authorized), and investigative visualizations
• Prepare analytical summaries for case development, affidavits, subpoenas, and prosecution support

Advanced Analytics & Modeling

• Apply statistical methods, classification, clustering, forecasting, and anomaly detection
• Develop and validate machine learning models (when approved)
• Conduct NLP, document analytics, and graph/network analysis

Dashboarding & Visualization

• Develop dashboards for audit risk monitoring, investigative trends, hotline analytics, and oversight metrics
• Produce heat maps, link diagrams, geospatial maps, and executive briefings

Security, Privacy & Sensitive Data Handling

• Work with law‑enforcement sensitive, procurement‑sensitive, and controlled unclassified information
• Follow all DFC OIT security and privacy requirements

Knowledge Transfer

• Document scripts, workflows, and model logic
• Provide training, demonstrations, and user guides

• Experience supporting a Federal Office of Inspector General, federal law enforcement, or audit organization
• Experience with:
  • investigations, hotline analysis, fraud‑risk modeling
  • transaction tracing, anomaly detection, link analysis, entity resolution, timeline analysis
  • handling sensitive, nonpublic, or law‑enforcement‑sensitive information
• Advanced degree in a relevant field
• Professional certifications such as:
  • CFE, CPA, CIA, CISA, CFF, or analytics/BI platform certifications