Senior Finance Insights Analyst - Data, Dashboards & AI

Insight Global; Toronto; On-site; CAD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Insights Analyst, Finance to support a large enterprise organization within its Finance and Decision Analytics function. This role sits at the intersection of finance, merchandising, analytics, and technology.

The Senior Insights Analyst will own analytics that support key financial and merchandising decisions, including markdowns, clearance, store performance, and profitability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business Analytics, Economics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or another relevant quantitative field.
• 4–6 years of experience in analytics, business intelligence, financial analytics, or a related field.
• Strong SQL skills, including experience writing complex queries within a cloud data environment and troubleshooting inaccurate query results.
• Strong Tableau experience building and maintaining dashboards used by business stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to perform root-cause analysis and troubleshoot discrepancies across data, reporting logic, and business rules.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including experience with tools such as Power Query, XLOOKUP, dynamic array formulas, and scenario modeling.
• Strong PowerPoint and data storytelling capabilities.
• Experience using AI tools to support analytics, workflow automation, or productivity.
• Strong financial acumen, including an understanding of financial performance drivers such as sales, performance against plan, run rates, margin, and profitability.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex analytical findings to both technical and business audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own the business rules and analytics supporting finance and merchandising decisions, including markdowns and clearance.
• Analyze store and financial performance to identify trends, drivers, risks, and opportunities.
• Build actionable insights around key financial metrics including sales performance, margin, profitability, run rates, and performance against plan.
• Conduct cost-benefit analysis and translate findings into clear business recommendations.
• Advise business partners on test-and-learn methodology, including control selection, test duration, and success metrics.
• Build, maintain, and enhance Tableau dashboards and scorecards used by business stakeholders.
• Own technically complex reporting workflows and ensure reporting is accurate, documented, and delivered on time.
• Investigate reporting discrepancies and trace incorrect numbers back to their source.
• Distinguish between data-quality issues, reporting logic problems, and business-rule issues.

Skills

SQL

Tableau

Excel

PowerPoint

Data storytelling

AI tools

Financial acumen

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field

Tools

BigQuery

Alteryx

Python

Tableau

Job description

Insight Global is seeking a Senior Insights Analyst, Finance to support a large enterprise organization within its Finance and Decision Analytics function. This role sits at the intersection of finance, merchandising, analytics, and technology.

The Senior Insights Analyst will own analytics that support key financial and merchandising decisions, including markdowns, clearance, store performance, and profitability.