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Data Science Internship 2023

london or Newcastle

17/09/2023

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

Job Description:

We welcome applications to participate in our year-long Data Science Internship Scheme. We have a vacancy available for immediate start. As part of the scheme, you’ll 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:

applying your quantitative and qualitative skills to large messy datasets to derive new insights;

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, such as Early Education and Childcare Entitlements or Managing Flood Risk;

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)

If you are interested in this vacancy, please submit your CV on our careers website.

The deadline for applications is 23:59pm on Sunday 17 September 2023.


For more information please click on the link to access our Data Science leaflet REPLACEMENT_STRING https://bit.ly/3T7v3sz

You’ll 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:

applying your quantitative and qualitative skills to large messy datasets to derive new insights;

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 (

https://bit.ly/3ebxzze), such as Early Education (https://bit.ly/3CgMY9F), and Childcare Entitlements (https://bit.ly/3CgMY9F), or Managing Flood Risk;

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.

No previous experience of audit is necessary, and training will be provided in key Data Science skills such as R. An interest in learning programming skills is required; previous programming experience is desirable but not essential.

We do have some minimum criteria which you will need to meet:

120 UCAS points from the 2017 tariff from your top 3 A Level grades (or equivalent). General Studies does not count. If you have 104 UCAS points from the 2017 tariff (or equivalent) you may still be eligible to apply – please email

[email protected] for further details.

Took 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:

o You are in your second year of a sandwich degree course
o You are in your final year and are expecting a 2.1 degree or better, or
o You have completed your undergraduate degree course and achieved a 2.1 degree or better