Deloitte Careers – Data Scientist

About the job

Your opportunity

Our Tax and Legal Ventures team is expanding its Data analytics and Artificial Intelligence capabilities. The Data and AI studio supports the Tax and Legal business in researching, building, and delivering analytics and AI-driven solutions to our clients. The team has grown rapidly over the last three years in both size and breadth of services. We need high calibre and motivated individuals to continue that growth and explore market differentiating opportunities across the entire Tax and Legal business. Our Tax Ventures team has quickly established a strong reputation for being proactive, entrepreneurial, successful, and fun to work with. Working for us will present you with the opportunity to get involved in high-profile projects and will enable you to expand your horizons.

We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you, please do discuss with us.

Your role

Deloitte’s Tax Ventures team is a key strategic function within the tax and legal business and includes several future looking capabilities that combined, are helping to drive exciting and innovative growth opportunities. You’ll work as part of a multi-disciplinary team of industry, tax and legal SMEs, technology, and data specialists to provide specialist data science expertise and support on a diverse range of projects with both an internal and client focus.

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our role will be as a Data Scientist within our expanding AI & Data Studio. The role involves working on new and existing projects and products, delivering insights to clients, and utilising data to make smarter, better decisions. You will be responsible for applying data mining techniques, undertaking statistical analysis, deploying cutting edge machine learning tools and techniques, and drawing insights and building predictive models on both structured and unstructured data. This role will involve working on the delivery of key data science driven services and transformation projects.

Responsibilities

• Proactively sourcing external structured and unstructured data sets to enhance services and insights
• Processing, cleansing, and verifying the integrity of data used for analysis
• Performing ad-hoc analysis and presenting results from a business-centric perspective
• Building innovative models to classify and predict tax and legal data leveraging state-of-the-art machine learning and deep learning techniques
• Design, build and test data pipelines for machine learning that are reliable, scalable, and easily deployable
• Perform constant tracking of performances
• Clearly and confidently articulate the value and benefits of delivering analytics projects to clients
• Working closely with Tax and Legal SMEs to build a deep understanding of business/client challenges and in the development of Proof of Concepts

Your work, your choice

At Deloitte we believe the best impact is the value we add, not the hours we sit at our desk. We carefully consider agile ways of working, both formal and informal, that allow for the best impact for our people and our clients. Please speak to your recruiter about the working pattern that works best for you.

Location: This role can be based in our London or regional offices with occasional domestic and international travel.

Work pattern: This is a permanent contract opportunity. The role can be worked on a full-time basis.

Our team members work a variety of agile working patterns. Tell us what arrangement works for you and we’ll try to accommodate.

Your professional experience

Essential:

• Deep understanding of machine learning techniques and algorithms
• Experience in developing and testing predictive algorithms
• Experience programming in Python and relevant libraries and frameworks (e.g., NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, NLTK, TensorFlow, PyTorch, Airflow)
• Strong statistics skills, including distributions, statistical testing, regression, etc.
• Experience in working with unstructured data sets
• Understanding of software engineering concepts and best practices for collaborative programming (e.g., versioning, testing, deployment)
• Understanding of DevOps/MLOps approaches and cloud environments (Google, Azure)
• Data and analytical orientated mindset
• Excellent collaboration and communication skills – with teams and customers alike

Desirable:

• Experience with data visualisation tools such as PowerBI and Tableau
• Experience with data transformation tools such as Alteryx

Your service line: Tax and Legal

Arguably the most stimulating career environment in our industry, tax at Deloitte is a far cry from tax at other firms. Here, it’s all about collaborating with colleagues at the top of their game, across disciplines, for clients who urge us to constantly push the boundaries of our creativity. You’ll find a diverse mix of people, all working together to deliver best-in-class advice. And you’ll discover a structured programme that will help you develop even greater expertise. From fascinating projects to a wealth of secondment opportunities, both in the UK and overseas, you can enjoy a broad and rich career experience.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your “Immediate Family Members” are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.

About Deloitte

Our Purpose & Strategy

To make an impact that matters for our clients, our people and society – defines who we are and what we stand for. Our purpose provides the foundation for our strategy and our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services: this is not about size, it’s about being the first choice. The first choice for the largest and most influential clients, and the first choice for the best talent.

What do we do?

Deloitte offers global integrated professional services that include Audit & Assurance, Consulting, Financial Advisory, Legal, Risk Advisory and Tax Consulting. Our approach combines intellectual leadership, industrial expertise, insight, consulting & problem-solving capabilities whatever the role, technology revolutions and innovation from multiple disciplines to help our clients excel anywhere in the world.

Beyond the UK: Deloitte North and South Europe

The UK is part of Deloitte North and South Europe (NSE), the second largest member firm in the Deloitte network. Deloitte NSE combines operations in Belgium, Central Mediterranean (Italy, Greece, Malta), Ireland, the Middle East (Bahrain, Cyprus, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Oman, Palestinian Ruled Territories, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen), the Netherlands, the Nordics (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden), Switzerland and the UK. Deloitte NSE brings together 2,700 partners and over 50,000 people, combining our unmatched breadth and depth of capabilities in audit and assurance, consulting, financial advisory, risk advisory, and tax and legal across the region. Being part of Deloitte NSE supports our aspiration to be the undisputed leader in professional services and will create more opportunity and growth for our people.

What do we value?

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for maximum impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.

Being a Leader at Deloitte

Cultural fit and purpose-led leadership is crucial for Deloitte. Our leaders always set the example and inspire their colleagues. They make quality time for people and take an interest in them. They know what matters to people – both inside and outside work – and value them as individuals; always finding opportunities to develop them while showing respect and appreciation.

We expect colleagues at all levels to embrace and live our purpose and our leadership culture by challenging themselves to identify issues that are most important for our clients, our people, and for society and make an impact that matters. We know leadership comes in all shapes and sizes, but our Leadership Charter helps all of our people understand what we’re looking for:

• We live our purpose: we act as a role model, embracing and living our purpose and values, and recognising others for the impact they make
• We develop talent: we develop high-performing people and teams through challenging and meaningful opportunities
• We drive performance: we deliver exceptional client service; maximise results and drive high performance from people while fostering collaboration across businesses and borders
• We believe positive influence can make an impact that matters: we influence clients, teams, and individuals positively, leading by example and establishing confident relationships with increasingly senior people
• We move, together, towards a strategic direction: we understand key objectives for clients and Deloitte, aligning people to objectives and setting priorities and direction.