Do you enjoy working with data? Thinking of a career involving advanced analytics? This stint involves the end-to-end process - gathering requirements, designing modeling approach(es), preparing data, modeling and model result presentation. There are currently 2 projects
1) Tax Compliance Risks
You will conduct research into emerging tax compliance risks (including data analysis, developing proposals etc.) which will support ongoing reviews or studies
2) Review of Compliance Policy
You will help to propose initiatives and design outreach collaterals with the objective to build a socially responsible taxpaying community.
We welcome undergraduates across various disciplines, including but not limited to business analytics, statistics or information systems. Depending on the project you are interested in, you may also read up/be prepared to use analytics tools, programming language and analytics techniques, such as
Tools/programme language (depending on project scope)
-SAS/SQL Programming
-SAS Enterprise Guide, Enterprise Miner
-Spotfire
-R, Python, Excel VBA
Analytics Techniques (depending on project scope)
-Segmentation, Predictive Analytics
-Text mining, visual analytics, forecasting etc.
Internship opportunities, ranging from 12-22 weeks, are available from Apr-Aug each year.
If you have an interest in design thinking, this is a chance to apply your skills and insights to tax administration! We will arrange for you to help review research and lead 1-2 design thinking projects/design sprints to improve the effectiveness of IRAS' programmes. This could entail conducting workshops and preparing engagement and training materials to promote human-centered mindsets and corporate culture. There are also ongoing behavioural economic studies projects that you could contribute to!
We can customize the internship duration based on your availability. A committed period of 10-24 weeks would be ideal.