Data Analyst

Permanent Full Time

The Data Analyst is a subject matter expert that helps guide businesses on products and services through advanced analytical methods. The role can translate complex problems into plain language to ensure key stakeholders have the data and the insights to make informed business decisions.

This position researches and applies knowledge of existing and emerging data principles, theories, and techniques to transform high level business requirements into measurable solutions for business partners.

Provides insights and analysis into strategy and initiative work to grow the business; the use of data will be foundational to making informed decisions and measuring success.

Responsible for performing general analytics and/or statistical modeling on existing data sets in various areas of the business. Activities include defining data requirements, data collection, processing, cleaning, analysis, modelling, and visualization.

BI function: Blends historical data from available industry reports or purchased sources or internal analysis as input to analyses. Identifies and analyzes industry/geographic trends and competitor market strategies and monitors current/potential trends. Partners with other areas of the business to model the outcome of implementing potential business strategies.

What you will do:

• Provide insights and analysis into strategy and initiative work to grow the business, the use of data will be foundational to making informed decisions and measuring success.
• Build insights: complete data analysis and discovery to better understand the data and the story it is telling to drive actionable results.
• Identify business problems, that if remedied, will return significant commercial value (either through increased sales, reduced cost, or lower risk)
• Delineate, with specificity, the underlying root causes and contributors causing the business problem through quantitative/fact‑based analyses.
• Formulate remedies and prescribe exactly how they will fix the business problems, and quantify the dollar impact and non‑dollar benefits.
• Provide visualization for making recommendations on trends, that would identify areas for increased sales, measure productivity, reduced cost, or lower risk.
• Work with large data sets and retrieve data from systems using multiple languages on various platforms.
• Develop, customize, and maintain data models.
• Support data solution teams in data extraction and preparation from multiple sources modeling the data for use for Advanced Analytics and business dashboards.
• Logical and physical data modeling of data to align with Business Intelligence/Advanced Analytics initiatives and Canada Life modelling standards for meta data, and the management of the data models using modelling tools.
• Define and manage application security setup including access audit and access clean‑up.

What you will bring:

• Bachelor’s degree in related field of study, or an equivalent combination of bachelor’s degree and extensive related work experience.
• Strong experience in working with data visualization tools (SQL, SAS, Cognos, Tableau, Microsoft Azure, Power BI).
• Deep business knowledge, to be able to understand and analyze the data to solve for business problems where the return can include significant value (savings, lower risk).
• Excellent written and oral communication including ability to communicate with users with various technical backgrounds; guide stakeholders on how to process, analyze and visualize data.
• Communicates insights and translates complex data into common language. Influencing on what the data story is telling. Ability to influence Sr. Leadership and key stakeholders.
• Innovative and visionary thinking; willingness to bring forward new concepts and approaches.
• Drive optimizations to improve data quality.
• Understand and champion new tools and technologies.
• Assist the business in the ideation of new analytics initiatives ranging from descriptive, diagnostics, predictive to prescriptive.
• Be a trusted advisor to stakeholders and internal clients to solve complex data challenges for their business needs.
• Strong understanding of database query languages and substantial knowledge in analytical approaches.
• Expertise with data mining and visualization techniques, ability to apply context to data, and strong ability to communicate the data.
• Knowledge of data modeling, data access, and data storage techniques.

The base salary for this position is between $56,900.00 - $99,700.00. This represents base salary only and does not represent other variable compensation components of our total compensation (i.e. annual bonus, commission etc). If you are selected to move forward in our recruitment process, your recruiter will be able to discuss additional details of our total rewards program with you.

Career opportunities will be open a minimum of 5 business days from the date of posting, closing dates will vary depending on the search activity. All applications received will be reviewed on a rolling basis.

Be your best at Canada Life- Apply today!

Being a part of Canada Life means you have a voice. This is a place where your unique background, perspectives and talents are valued, and shape our future success.

You can be your best here. You’re part of a diverse and inclusive workplace where your career and well‑being are championed. You’ll have the opportunity to excel in your way, finding new and better ways to deliver exceptional customer and advisor experiences.

Together, as part of a great team, you’ll deliver on our shared purpose to improve the well‑being of Canadians. It’s our driving force. Become part of a strong and successful company that’s trusted by millions of Canadians to do the right thing.

Canada Life serves the financial security needs of more than 13 million people across Canada, with additional operations in Europe and the United States. As members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies, we’re one of Canada’s leading insurers with interests in life insurance, health insurance, investment and retirement savings. We offer a broad portfolio of financial and benefit plan solutions for individuals, families, businesses and organizations.

We are committed to providing an inclusive, accessible environment, where all employees and customers feel valued, respected and supported. We are dedicated to building a workforce that reflects the diversity of the communities in which we live, and to creating an environment where every employee has the opportunity to reach their potential.

It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Canada Life policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact talentacquisitioncanada@canadalife.com.

Canada Life would like to thank all applicants, however only those who qualify for an interview will be contacted.