Data Science Internship 2024 - London, United Kingdom - National Audit Office

National Audit Office

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London, United Kingdom

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Job title

Data Science Internship 2024
Minimum salary

Maximum salary

Location

London or Newcastle
Close date
21/11/2023
Job description:

Job description

Data Science Internship
Contract: 1year fixedterm
Location: London or Newcastle
Salary: £25,328 in London and £22,623 in Newcastle

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Job Description:

As part of the scheme, you will benefit from dedicated training to develop skills using R, SQL and Python mixed with the opportunity to put those skills into practice.

For example, you will spend your time:

building and implementing data tools to support our range of assurance work. For example, take a look at the Data Visualisations presented on our website

- collaborating with our financial auditors to review high value, high risk quantitative models which underpin accounting estimates. For example, the value of the student loans book, the rate of fraud and error in tax credit and benefit payments, and the money needed in the future to compensate people who have experienced clinical negligence.

Nationality Requirement:
UK Nationals
Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with (or eligible for) status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)

How to Apply:
Application form-
Responsibilities
- the review of government models which produce estimates for the audited financial accounts.-
Skills required

Skills required
No previous experience of audit is necessary, and training will be provided in key data science skills such as R and Python.
An interest in learning programming skills is required; previous programming experience is desirable but not essential.
Educational requirements
We do have some minimum criteria which you will need to meet:
An undergraduate degree course with a substantive quantitative component such as data science, operational research, mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, management science, economics (the data science internship is unlikely to be suitable for people studying accounting finance degree courses), where:
You are in your second year of a sandwich degree course
You are in your final year and are expecting a 2.1 degree or better, or
You have completed your undergraduate degree course and achieved a 2.1 degree or better