About the Role
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.

What You’ll Do in Your New Role 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

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, information systems, accounting, finance, economics, operations research, business analytics, or a closely related field

• Minimum 8 years of specialized experience in:

  • data analytics, audit analytics, investigative analytics, fraud detection, forensic financial analysis, or similar fields

• Demonstrated ability to:

  • collect, clean, validate, integrate, and analyze complex datasets

  • develop dashboards, visualizations, and written analytic products

  • communicate methods, assumptions, and results clearly to stakeholders

• U.S. Citizenship

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance

• Ability to work on‑site at DFC Headquarters in Washington, DC (occasional ad‑hoc telework allowed

Desired Qualifications

• 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

• Exceptional Medical/Dental/Vision Insurance, premiums for employees are 100% paid by Culmen, and dependent coverage is available at a nominal rate (including same or opposite sex domestic partners)

• 401k 6 Vested immediately and 4% match
• Life insurance and disability paid by the company
• Supplemental Insurance Available
• Opportunities for Training and Continuing Education
• 12 Paid Holidays

To learn more about Culmen International, please visit www.culmen.com