Wave

Data Scientist

Wave$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
  • In-depth knowledge of database design, SQL, and data warehousing
  • Advanced SQL development and optimization skills
  • Experience with data visualization and presentation methods, including dashboard creation
  • Ability to understand business processes for data integrity
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy and consistency

Responsibilities

  • Support efforts to enhance the customer experience
  • Design and develop analytic solutions for the audit plan
  • Write code to extract data from various sources
  • Develop code for data manipulation and cleaning based on requirements
  • Execute data validations and quality checks
  • Design and build user-friendly visualizations
  • Identify risks and escalate to management as appropriate

Benefits

  • Opportunity for remote work one day a week
  • Collaborative office environment
  • Regular interaction with multiple departments
  • Engagement in diverse projects and responsibilities
  • Professional development opportunities
Full Job Description
Job Summary

The Data Scientist plays a key role in our data driven audits and is responsible for the design, development and maintenance of data analysis and visualizations to support the audit plan, including requirements gathering, data validation, analysis execution and results reporting using visualization tools. The position requires regular communication with the audit team to define requirements and present deliverables.

Responsibilities

How You'll Make an Impact

Actively and consistently support all efforts to simplify and enhance the customer experience.

Design and develop analytic solutions to support our audit plan, including but not limited to:
• Understanding the source data and business process
• Independently write code to extract data from various sources (Teradata, SQL, Oracle, etc.)
• Develop code to manipulate and clean data as needed based on requirements gathered in conjunction with the Manager, Data Science.
• Design and execute data validations and quality checks to ensure complete and accurate populations.
• Design and build visualization solutions with our end users in mind to drive efficiency and effective anomaly identification.
• Refreshing and optimizing existing analytics based on internal and external feedback.

Identify risks and escalate to management appropriately.

Participate in discussions and interface with various departments to research, define, and document requirements.

Proactively seek clarification of requirements and direction; takes responsibility when needed.

Executes special projects as needed and performs other duties as requested.

Working Conditions

Office environment (four days in office/one day remote)

Qualifications

What You'll Bring to Spectrum

Required Qualifications

Required Qualifications

Required Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
• In-depth knowledge of database design, SQL and data warehousing
• Advanced SQL development and optimization background
• Knowledge of data visualization and presentation methods for data analysis and interpretation, including performance of dashboards, generating, managing and delivering presentations and reports capable of yielding insights and actionable results
• Ability to understand business processes to ensure data and information integrity when importing from source systems.
• Ability to present analysis to our audit teams clearly and concisely
• Excellent interpersonal, oral and written communication and presentation skills
• Ability to work in teams towards a shared goal
• Ability to interface with various levels in an organization
• Ability to prioritize and organize effectively
• Ability to learn new technologies and tools
• Capable of working independently to solve problems under deadlines and to manage multiple projects/priorities under time constraints
• Detail oriented with emphasis on accuracy and consistency

Required Education
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience

Required Related Work Experience and Number of Years
• Writing SQL / 3
• Designing and building analytics tools in Tableau / 2
• Big data analysis / 3
• Requirements analysis and documentation / 3
• Data validation, analysis, and debugging / 3

Preferred Skills/Abilities and Knowledge
• Telecomm/Cable industry experience
• Accounting/Financial/Audit experience
• Data mining experience

About Wave

Wave is a Canadian financial services company that provides accounting, invoicing, and payment processing software for small businesses. The company was founded in 2010 by Kirk Simpson and James Lochrie. Wave's software is used by over 4 million small businesses around the world. In 2019, the company was acquired by H&R Block for $405 million. Wave is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.
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Size
200 employees
Industry
Founded
2011

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