Strategic Data Analyst & BI Developer (Hybrid)

Manulife/John Hancock; Manila; Hybrid; PHP 600,000 - 900,000; Full time

Job summary

Manulife/John Hancock in Manila, Philippines is seeking a business-facing technical Data Analyst to translate GWAM Asia needs into clear data requirements and support trusted, reusable data products.

You will partner with business, product, architecture, and engineering teams to enable reporting, analytics, decision-making, and AI use cases, while ensuring data definitions, ownership, lineage, and quality across markets.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in a Data Analyst, BI Analyst, data-focused Business Analyst, or similar role.
• Strong SQL and Excel skills, with experience in requirements gathering, data mapping, profiling, reconciliation, data quality, and testing.
• Ability to translate business needs into clear requirements for technical teams.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, prioritization, and English communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Translate business needs into testable data requirements across GWAM domains (clients, distribution, products, funds, accounts, AUM, transactions, profitability).
• Lead or support discovery sessions and prepare business requirements specs, mappings, user stories, acceptance criteria, and flows.
• Use SQL to profile, investigate, reconcile data, identify gaps, and support solution design.
• Partner with data engineers and architects to deliver scalable solutions on the Enterprise Data Lake.
• Support data mapping, cleansing, transformation, integration, quality controls, testing, user acceptance, and production readiness.
• Develop dashboards and analytical outputs that communicate clear, actionable insights.
• Align data definitions, ownership, lineage, and quality expectations across markets.

Skills

SQL

Excel

Requirements gathering

Data mapping

Profiling

Data reconciliation

Data quality

Testing

English communication

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree

Tools

Power BI

Python

R

Spark

Databricks

Azure Data Lake Storage

Azure Data Factory

Job description

Manulife/John Hancock in Manila, Philippines is seeking a business-facing technical Data Analyst to translate GWAM Asia needs into clear data requirements and support trusted, reusable data products.

You will partner with business, product, architecture, and engineering teams to enable reporting, analytics, decision-making, and AI use cases, while ensuring data definitions, ownership, lineage, and quality across markets.