Senior Analyst Insights (12-month contract)

Vancity; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 71,000 - 108,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking organization as a Senior Analyst Insights, where you'll leverage your analytical skills to drive impactful climate strategies. This role involves extracting complex datasets, developing innovative solutions, and communicating insights to support Vancity's commitment to sustainability and social justice. You'll collaborate with diverse teams and represent the organization in external forums, making a significant difference in the community. With a hybrid work model and a commitment to employee well-being, this position offers a unique opportunity to thrive in an inclusive environment dedicated to creating lasting change.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Vacation allowance of 3-4 weeks

Defined benefits pension plan

Flex credits for health care & dental benefits

Additional statutory holidays

Care days for personal illness

Recognition as a Top Employer

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of experience in analytics with strong SQL skills.
• Ability to communicate complex data insights effectively.

Responsibilities

• Extract and analyze large datasets to generate actionable insights.
• Support climate-related initiatives and monitor best practices.

Skills

Analytical Thinking

Data Management

Problem Solving

Communication Skills

Project Management

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics

Bachelor’s Degree in Statistics

Bachelor’s Degree in Data Science

Bachelor’s Degree in Economics

Tools

SQL

Power BI

Excel

Job description

Senior Analyst Insights (12-month contract)

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Vancity is a member-owned credit union built on the principles of inclusion and social justice. A relentless commitment to their values has helped them challenge the status quo and break down barriers since day one in 1946. They have bold commitments to make Vancity net-zero by 2040 across all mortgages and loans and are pursuing strategies on Indigenous banking and to improve the financial resilience of their members.

Vancity is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and has been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada.

About the workplace

The Senior Analyst Insights reports to the Manager, Climate Strategy and Performance, and works closely with our Analytics Centre of Excellence. The scope of the role is enterprise wide, and key responsibilities include extracting and handling large complex datasets, developing/implementing solutions to improve processes, generating actionable insights, and tracking progress on Vancity’s climate commitments. The role requires strong data management practices and the ability to communicate analysis and data insights visually, verbally and in writing.

The analyst will support a wide range of initiatives including those related to climate change, financial health and inclusion, and sustainable finance. The role includes monitoring relevant best practices and relevant external frameworks and standards to identify and implement

improvements, and there will be opportunities to represent Vancity in external working groups.

The analyst will be responsible for generating data for impact and climate-related reports and disclosures. This includes quantifying financed emissions using methodologies from the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF), tracking progress on Vancity’s interim climate targets, and generating and reporting data for other Impact related initiatives including Triple Bottom Line Assets Under Administration.

This role requires someone with excellent technical and analytical skills, as well as strong problem solving, communications and project management skills. The analyst will ensure strong disclosure and review controls are in place to support external assurance. While not required, the ideal candidate will have subject matter expertise in sustainability and climate-related topics, especially as they pertain to financial institutions.

This is a 12-month contract role that will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. This role may require you to work in-office at least once a week.

A typical day may involve:

• Resolving complex information needs and translating them into executable research and analytics initiatives.
• Compiling and communicating regular and ad hoc reports, research and analytics insights to enable the delivery of key business strategies and decisions, including dashboards.
• Designing, building, reviewing and improving analytical processes and solutions to enable effective decision-making in support of Vancity’s climate, financial health & inclusion, indigenous banking and other impact strategies (including member valuation frameworks, segmentations, and predictive models).
• Recommending and supporting data improvement initiatives including data preparation, data access and data reliability. Evaluating and integrating internal and external data sets.
• Creating and maintaining documentation to ensure transparency, replicability and cross collaboration, and to support audits.
• Providing advice to senior leaders regarding the availability and applicability of climate and impact related insights to inform key strategic business decisions.
• Identifying emerging trends, risks and opportunities, assess implications, and make recommendations to management to mitigate potential risks and identify potential opportunities for the business.
• Working closely with the Analytics Centre of Excellence and in collaboration with leaders, business stakeholders, consultants, and external agencies/data providers as needed.

You are:

• Passionate about giving meaning to data
• A critical thinker
• Someone who enjoys investigating complex problems, and making sense of information and thinking conceptually
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Curious
• Proactive
• Able to contextualize output in the language of your business stakeholder

You have:

• Excellent analytical thinking capability, skilled at probing stakeholders to uncover business problems and translating these into analytical questions and summarizing insights to reach conclusion
• Excellent communication skills. Strong ability to explain complicated ideas to broader audiences using non-technical language
• Strong presentation skills, able to organize information and present analytical result in an efficient manner
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Data or Computer Science, Economics, Accounting. Finance, or other quantitative fields
• 5-7 years of experience in analytics
• Thorough working knowledge of relational databases and advanced SQL data extraction and manipulation tools (must have)
• Proficient in Power BI and Excel (must have)
• Ability to access complex data sources, explore data resources, clean and compile data to provide analytical driven solutions to real business problems
• You are familiar with best practices in statistical methodologies and innovative analytical tools, and can leverage this knowledge to support our business stakeholders to make stronger decisions

Bonus points, if you have:

• Experience and/or advanced knowledge in GHG quantification, sustainability or climate-related reporting and disclosures including PCAF, climate target setting, and/or impact measurement.
• Experience in financial services/banking, sustainable finance, and/or credit risk.
• Working level statistical skills, including regression, time series, champion/challenger testing, and decision tree modeling.

The salary range for this role is $71,500 to $107,300 annually. Base pay offered may vary depending on factors such as relevant qualifications, skills, previous experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards package, employees may also be eligible for our annual incentive program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

A career at Vancity is more than just a job, you’re joining a tradition of change-makers who are creating lasting change for our communities. Beyond base pay, we offer a comprehensive total rewards package to ensure our employees are empowered to thrive:

We offer:

• We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada.
• Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.
• New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows
• In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness.
• We have flex credits for our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
• We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined benefits pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience.

We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment experience for all candidates. If you require any accommodations at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to our Talent Acquisition team at [e-mail] for confidential support. In-person assistance is also available. We will collaborate with you to ensure your needs are met promptly and effectively.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Analyst and General Business

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