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KPMG is currently seeking an Associate to join our Tax Transformation practice.

Responsibilities:

• Work with tax business teams to identify anomalies, trends and derive insights in large volumes of data to support tax planning, benchmarking, and other initiatives
• Assist with data acquisition from disparate systems and in different formats including ERP systems, web, databases and excel
• Perform machine learning, natural language, and statistical analysis methods, such as classification, collaborative filtering, association rules, sentiment analysis, topic modeling, time-series analysis, regression, statistical inference, and validation methods
• Perform explanatory data analyses, generate and test working hypotheses, prepare and analyze historical data and identify patterns and communicate findings via visualization tools
• Work effectively with various technology groups, clients and tax domain experts

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree (master’s degree preferred) from an accredited college/university or foreign equivalent in engineering, computer science, information systems, management information systems or related fields
• A minimum of one years of experience performing data manipulation and analysis using ETL and visualization tools such as Qlikview, Tableau, Powerview, Alteryx, SSIS
• Strong statistical programming background one or more languages: R, Python, SAS
• Development experience with one or more programming languages (C#, Java) and database technologies (SQL Server, etc)
• Knowledge of one or more ERP systems is a plus
• Knowledge of machine learning and/or big data tools (Spark, Hive, Pig, etc) is a plus

KPMG offers a comprehensive compensation and benefits package. KPMG, an equal opportunity employer/disability/veteran. KPMG maintains a drug-free workplace. KPMG will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable local, state or federal law (including San Francisco Ordinance number 131192). No phone calls or agencies please.