Associate, Data Scientist, Internal Audit Department

About the role

GIC, a sovereign wealth fund, is hiring an Associate/AVP, Data Scientist for its Internal Audit Department (IAD). The IAD provides an independent assessment of governance, risk management and internal controls to the Board and senior management, and has built data science capabilities including anomaly detection, AI applications and analysis of large datasets. The role joins a team of seven data scientists.

Key responsibilities

• Leverage LLM and GenAI to develop, optimise and maintain advanced solutions supporting internal audit activities.
• Analyse heterogeneous and unstructured data to generate actionable insights for risk and control.
• Develop and maintain data ingestion pipelines in the data warehouse (e.g. Snowflake, Databricks).
• Work with business stakeholders to analyse large datasets, trends and results and drive data-driven operational risk decisions.
• Collaborate with the internal community of data scientists to solve complex problems and influence change.
• Stay up to date with data analytics developments and recommend best practices.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or a relevant quantitative field.
• At least 3 years of experience in data science or data engineering.
• Strong analytical and organisation skills, good communication skills, and the ability to work independently and as a team player.

Required skills

• Highly proficient in Python and experience with Python-based data workflows.
• SQL and big data platforms, with end-to-end ETL processes.
• Understanding of machine learning algorithms, statistical models and common ML techniques.
• Hands-on experience with AI agents and agentic coding tools such as Claude Code and OpenAI Codex.
• Familiarity with Docker, container orchestration and CI/CD pipelines is a strong plus.