Deputy Director, Data Intelligence Group

IMPORTANT NOTE: CANDIDATES MUST BE PERMANENT IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST CIVIL SERVICE TITLE OR ARE PERMANENT IN A COMPARABLE CIVIL SERVICE TITLE ELIGIBLE FOR A 6.1.9 TITLE CHANGE. PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR EMPLOYEE IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (EIN) WHEN APPLYING AND INDICATE IN YOUR COVER LETTER YOUR PERMANENT CIVIL SERVICE TITLE. Tax Policy seeks a Deputy Director to serve in the Data Intelligence Group. Reporting to the Senior Director, the selected candidate's duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to the following: -Assist the Senior Director in providing supervisory direction over a unit engaged in the performance of strong computer and analytics skills with the aim of identifying audit-worthy tax returns and data quality/integrity review. -Assist the Senior Director with model development and with communication with senior Audit staff to ensure models are developed accurately and in accordance with Audit's requirements. -Prepare and evaluate model reports for bi-weekly model meetings, research report issues/anomalies to advise adjustments or corrections, and track model results to inform ongoing modeling efforts. -Respond to ad hoc and special project data requests by producing or overseeing the production of accurate, relevant, well-documented, and properly formatted research or analytic results and providing these to the requesting party. -Supervise and participate in the ongoing review of tax return adjustments which trigger Quality Assurance and Egregious cases. -Perform difficult and complex computer applications programming, using SAS, including macros (e.g., subroutines). -Develop, update, and maintain standardized SAS code and associated datasets for preparing data for use in modeling, recalculation of tax, identification of non-filers, etc. -Assist with the development and implementation of dozens of models for the corporation tax, the general corporation tax, the unincorporated business tax (proprietorships and partnerships), the commercial rent tax, the real property transfer tax, the hotel tax, and other special projects. This entails understanding complex tax laws and the myriad data sources available to identify taxpayers that may be underreporting, as well as businesses that are not fulfilling their filing requirements. Additional Information: This position may be eligible for remote work up to 2 days per week, pursuant to the Remote Work Pilot Program agreed between the City and the Collective Bargaining Unit representing employees serving in the civil service title. This position will require employees to have access to Federal Tax Information (FTI) and is subject to an additional background investigation before appointment. The candidate(s) will be required to pass the FTI background investigation as a term and condition of employment. ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF ANALYST ( - 1002D Qualifications 1. A master's degree from an accredited college in economics, finance, accounting, business or public administration, public health, human resources management, management science, operations research, organizational behavior, industrial psychology, statistics, personnel administration, labor relations, psychology, sociology, human resources development, political science, urban studies or a Juris Doctor degree from an accredited law school, and two years of satisfactory full-time professional experience in one or a combination of the following: working with the budget of a large public or private concern in budget administration, accounting, economic or financial administration, or fiscal or economic research; or in management or methods analysis, operations research, organizational research or program evaluation; or in personnel or public administration, recruitment, position classification, personnel relations, labor relations, employee benefits, staff development, employment program planning/administration, labor market research, economic planning, social services program planning/evaluation, or fiscal management. Eighteen (18) months of this experience must have been in an executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory capacity. Supervision must have included supervising staff performing professional work in the areas described above; or 2. A baccalaureate degree from an accredited college and four years of professional experience in the areas described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above; or 3. An associate degree or completion of 60 semester credits from an accredited college and six years of full-time satisfactory full-time professional experience as described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above; or 4. A four-year high school diploma or its educational equivalent approved by a state's department of education or a recognized accrediting organization and eight years of full-time satisfactory full-time professional experience as described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above; or 5. A combination of education and/or experience equivalent to "1", "2", "3", or "4" above. College education may be substituted for professional experience at the rate of 30 semester credits from an accredited college for one year of experience. However, all candidates must have a high school diploma and at least two years of experience as described in "1" above, including the 18 months of executive, managerial, administrative, or supervisory experience, as described in "1" above.