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KPMG is currently seeking a Senior 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
• Mentor fresh graduates to become experts in machine learning

Qualifications:

• A minimum of two years of experience statistical programming background one or more languages: R, Python, SAS
• Master’s degree from an accredited college/university or foreign equivalent in engineering, computer science, information systems, management information systems or related fields, or a Bachelor’s degree with a minimum of an additional two years in a related field in lieu of Master’s degree
• Expert in Machine Learning (SciPy, numpy, etc.) and Big Data tools (Spark, Hive, Pig, etc)
• Git contribution, presence in kaggle, if any, is a big plus
• Development experience with one or more programming languages (C#, Java) and database technologies (SQL Server, 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.