Business Intelligence Analyst
Job Overview
Job title: Business Intelligence Analyst
Job description: You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.
Job Description:
Canadian Group Benefits business within Sun Life is the largest private payer of healthcare in Canada with over 3 million members. Our goal is to help Canadians lead healthier lives through workplace benefit programs, ensure outstanding experience when they engage with Sun Life and equip them with tools to manage their health needs.
GB Strategy, Digital and Analytics (SDA) team has a mandate to work across functions to deliver insights critical for business decisions, identify growth opportunities and use data to improve health and financial outcomes. The team collaborates closely with Canadian Data & Analytics and Enterprise Services teams.
Reporting to Director, Data Science as Business Intelligence Analyst, you will accelerate the growth and application of analytics across Group Benefits. You will also leverage practical experience in applying varied business intelligence techniques and design, develop and implement analytics use cases. This role requires creative problem-solving ability, teamwork, excellent communication and presentation skills, and ability to handle several diverse and concurrent projects.
What will you do?
Work directly with business stakeholders throughout the entire engagement life cycle including technical analysis, design, development, implementation and consulting efforts.
Provide plans and estimates for business intelligence initiatives
Maintain standards for analysis and reporting at all levels including best practice data visualization techniques
Enable visual storytelling through Tableau and visual analytics tools
Facilitate group meetings of various sizes for solution design, decision making, problem-solving and solution implementation.
Turn complex data into easy to understand visual insights that are aligned to business objectives
Develop a user experience that is simple, yet flexible.
Incorporate data governance and access controls in Tableau
Designing custom landing pages for Tableau Server for enhanced user experience
What do you need to succeed?
Minimum undergraduate degree in Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent
Expertise in visual analytics and design principles
3+ years of experience in:
SQL Programming and stored procedures
Tableau development and designing dashboards / decision enablement tools (please share examples of your work / Tableau Public profile if available)
End-to-End development experience and ability to create complex calculations including Custom SQL, Level of Detail (LOD) expressions, action filters, user filters and implement advanced dashboard practices in Tableau
Demonstrated Experience using blending, sorting, sets and maps in Tableau
Experience Leveraging Tableau Prep for data organization and scheduling
Experience tuning the performance of Tableau Server dashboards to optimize client experience
Ability to understand data modeling based on user specs
Ability to work independently and within a team, manage engagements or parts of large engagements directly with business partners.
Solid understanding of how to consolidate and transform data to meaningful and actionable information
Ability to draw out meaningful business insights by synthesizing information from multiple sources
Strong oral and written communication skills, including presentation and storytelling with data
Demonstrated ability to transform User Stories into smart and elegant analytical apps for decision making
Demonstrated experience in development of analytics applications or data analysis, including insights development and communication to senior leadership.
What will be nice to have?
Tableau Desktop and Server / Site Admin Certifications preferred
Statistical analysis and experience with Python or R
Experience working with Cloud technologies like Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Experience in Group Benefits and Insurance or Financial Services Industry
Unique Requirements
The candidate selected for this role is required to have special clearance from the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. To see if you are eligible for this clearance, please review the section 201 on the Federal Government site ( )
What’s in it for you?
Competitive salary influenced by market range data
15 days vacation per year
Remote work/ Hybrid Work environment
A friendly, collaborative and inclusive culture
Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
Fitness and wellness programs that help you balance work and life and enjoy a healthier lifestyle
The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.
Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process or those needing job postings in an alternative format may e-mail a request to .
At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.
We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
Salary Range: 50,100/50 100 – 81,900/81 900
Job Category: Advanced Analytics
Posting End Date: 09/01/2022
Company: Sun Life Financial
Expected salary: $50100 – 81900 per year
Location: Waterloo, ON
Job date: Sun, 19 Dec 2021 03:26:33 GMT
Job Source: Careerjet.ca