Senior Data Analyst

OPTrust; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading pension fund organization in Toronto seeks a Senior Data Analyst to deliver technical expertise in data management and to build reporting solutions. Candidates should have strong analytical skills, experience with business intelligence tools, and a post-secondary education. The role offers a hybrid work model and focuses on improving data processes in a collaborative environment.

Benefits

Flexible hybrid work model

Benefits package

Participation in defined benefit pension plan

Diversity and inclusion initiatives

Qualifications

• Advanced knowledge of pension plan administration and related legislation.
• Experience using database systems and building dashboards.
• Strong research and analytical skills to resolve data problems.

Responsibilities

• Deliver technical expertise for data management practices.
• Build statistical reports and provide support to product owners.
• Analyse data management user requirements for new applications.

Skills

Data management

Statistical reporting

Analytical skills

Business intelligence tools

SQL

Microsoft Power BI

ETL methods

Interpersonal skills

Client service orientation

Education

Post-secondary degree or diploma

Tools

Microsoft Power BI

Tableau

MS Office Suite

Job description

Senior Data Analyst

Department: Member Experience and Pension Operations

Type: 18-Month Contract

Location: Toronto (Hybrid)

Posting Date: November 12, 2025

At OPTrust, paying pensions today, preserving pensions for tomorrow is our mission and business.

When you choose OPTrust, you join a team of smart, talented people who fuel our success and have a passion for pensions. Everyone at OPTrust – in Toronto, London and Sydney – makes a meaningful impact. Our culture is driven by team members with different backgrounds and perspectives, creating an inclusive and fulfilling place to work for everyone. We work in a fast‑paced environment, but we find time to have fun and give back to the community.

What OPTrust Offers You

• Unique culture rooted in our core values – collaboration and teamwork, integrity, respect, flexibility, excellence and continuous improvement.
• A purpose‑driven environment where we all work towards the common goal of paying pensions today and preserving pensions for tomorrow.
• A flexible, hybrid work model.
• Benefits package after six months of consecutive employment.
• Optional membership in our world‑class defined benefit pension plan.
• A dedicated inclusion, diversity and equity strategy with meaningful opportunities to participate, including our employee‑led resource groups.

About the role

This role is accountable for delivering technical expertise and contributing to the development and maintenance of data management practices. The mandate includes designing and implementing business processes, systems, methods and procedures that ensure accurate reconciliation, strong controls, and a high standard of quality and integrity for employer and plan member information. In addition, this position is responsible for building and maintaining reporting solutions using business intelligence tools, enabling actionable insights and informed decision‑making across the organisation.

What you’ll do

1. Provide expertise on business intelligence and data management standards, business process operating methods, and work procedures. Examples of key tasks include:

• Build and prepare statistical reports and/or presentations on results, findings, and recommendations related to business process reviews and ongoing data management functions, identifying and documenting trends in data problems and passing on information and suggestions regarding improved data handling and control to the manager.
• Provide support to product owners by generating and presenting data in a form that assists with business decisions (trends, projections, volumes, etc.).
• Work with datasets by extracting, transforming, organising, and translating raw data into actionable insight, data workflow, and work‑inventory management for the department to maintain service levels, productivity, and standards.
• Analyse and establish internal work processes, procedures, and controls related to the entire cycle of data interface processing and reconciliation.
• Follow up with OPTrust staff and employers to resolve data processing and reconciliation problems, including source file issues, membership and contribution split reconciliations, problem‑solving of aborted updates of the pension database, and recovery implementation.
• Represent OPTrust in discussions with employers regarding OPTrust data control and integrity requirements.
• Follow up and assist employers in reviewing work processes and procedures related to member data.
• Detect and implement solutions to complex data integrity issues with employers and OPTrust business areas.
• Design and deliver presentations, education, and training to employer representatives or OPTrust staff regarding data management processes, systems, and procedures.
• Develop and support initiatives in achieving departmental benchmarks and goals.
• Work with individual smaller employers/payroll providers to improve their extract programmes to meet OPTrust’s requirements.
• Develop structured testing of data received to improve business processes.
• Develop audit programmes to validate the data received from employers.
• Lead the batch data remediation processes for batch extracts, including Annual Pension Statement (APS).
• Support generating remediation information for the Annual Valuation Extract (AVE) purposes to reduce remedial process time.
• Perform annual update and verification of system tables.

2. Represent the data management group in special project work teams related to the design testing and implementation of new system applications as well as annual project deliverables. Examples of key tasks include:

• Provide business analysis from a data management perspective on projects regarding member‑ and employer‑data‑related controls and completeness and accuracy of such data; projects cover areas such as data purification, production of accurate annual pension statements to members, extraction of actuarial data, and maintenance of pension records and benefits for members on long‑term disability.
• Analyse data management user requirements related to new application development.
• Participate in system design walkthroughs and evaluations.
• Develop user acceptance test plans, including test strategy, test criteria, and test data identification, resources, and time estimates; implement and control user acceptance test projects, identifying issues with IT as needed.
• Control code table administration for the pension database and security requests for special project users.

• Design and deliver training and support to users of the pension database and coordinate database communication updates.

What you bring

• Advanced knowledge of pension plan administration and of related legislation/plan provisions, including the OPSEU Pension Plan text, the Pension Benefits Act, the Family Law Act, and federal statutes such as CPP, EI, and the Income Tax Act.
• Applied knowledge of business and administrative processes and systems in the financial services sector.
• Familiar with extracting, transforming, and loading (ETL) methods for large datasets, integrating source data to produce actionable insights.
• Knowledge of electronic data processing and financial system controls and methods to establish operating procedures that ensure control and integrity of data management processes.
• Knowledge of database systems operations and use, spreadsheet applications, and database inquiry languages and products to resolve complex data problems, redesign work processes/procedures, and provide technical assistance/guidance to junior staff.
• Experience using MS Office Suite (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI).
• Post‑secondary degree or diploma.
• Experience with database systems operations.
• Experience building dashboards using Microsoft Power BI or Tableau.
• Familiar with SQL and writing scripts to extract data.
• Experience with RPA or other automation development is highly preferred.
• Strong research and analytical skills to identify and resolve complex membership data problems and improve operating/control procedures and efficiency and make related recommendations.
• Strong organisational skills to balance workload and set priorities.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Interpersonal and negotiation skills along with a strong client service orientation.
• Positive attitude towards work and colleagues to support team goals and organization values of strong teamwork, cooperation and mutual respect.
• High degree of accountability and personal leadership.

Please submit your application via Workday by November 26, 2025.

Serving a membership as diverse as ours and investing in a global market means cultivating an environment that embraces inclusion, diversity, and equity in everything we do. OPTrust is an organization engaged in building on our unique and diverse strengths. We know a diversity of backgrounds, cultures, gender identities and perspectives are critical to achieving our shared goals.

If you require accommodation at any time during the recruitment process, please send a message to [e-mail], or discuss your needs with the Talent Acquisition Consultant during the telephone screening. We will do our best to work with you and provide appropriate accommodation.

As an organization we’re seeking ways to respond to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Call to Action 92. We are working with the Canadian Council for Indigenous Business to build bridges with Indigenous communities and partners, and we have created an employee‑led Reconciliation Working Group that will work with Indigenous experts to identify a path to reconciliation for our organization.

We thank all interested applicants, however only those under consideration will be contacted.