At Allstate, great things happen when our people work together to protect families and their belongings from life's uncertainties. And for more than 90 years our innovative drive has kept us a step ahead of our customers' evolving needs. From advocating for seat belts, air bags and graduated driving laws, to being an industry leader in pricing sophistication, telematics, and, more recently, device and identity protection.
Job Description
Business Analytics Consultants (BACs) use a mix of business consulting, technical, and solution implementation skills to help Allstate maximize (and
Who is Allstate:
Allstate Insurance Company of Canada is a leading home and auto insurer focused on providing its customers prevention and protection products and services for every stage of life. The company is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years and prioritizes supporting employees and fostering an inclusive, welcoming corporate culture. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to provide reassurance with its "You're in Good Hands®" promise.
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Through our Employee Value Proposition, Opportunity, Flexibility, Community, Diversity and Family, we have worked hard to develop and nurture a culture where employees feel valued, experience personal growth, have career options and truly enjoy the work they do.
Role Designation: Hybrid
Benefits to joining Allstate
- Flexible Work Arrangements
- Employee discounts (15% on auto and property insurance, plus many other products and services)
- Good Office program (receive up to 400$ back after purchasing office equipment)
- Student Loan Payment Matching Program for Government Student loans
- Comprehensive Retirement Savings Program with employer matched contributions
- Annual Wellness allowance to support employees with improving health and wellbeing
- Personal reflection day
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Working within the community and giving back!
Job description:
Allstate Canada Group is currently going through an important transformation of its Data environment with the implementation of a new Policy, Claims and Billing systems. We are growing our team and are
actively looking to hire an Analyst, Data & Analytics Digital Transformation to join our team!
Reporting to the Manager, Data & Analytics Digital Transformation, you will be providing key technical expertise to acquire, investigate, manipulate and analyze data to support Allstate Canada Group's business plans and results. The candidate will require an in-depth understanding of the data structure and environment and understand the implications from the day-to-day insurance business. The candidate will also be asked to foster efficiency, bring forward creative solutions and create awareness around potential benefits for other initiatives and units. The candidate will be expected to be proactive in developing a network of key collaborators and to be willing to think outside of the box and push the projects a step further.
Accountabilities:
- Interpret the data from the user interface of the different source systems and master how it translates into the backend database
- Build strong relationships with Claims, Policy and Finance teams to enable their needs in operational reporting, analytics, BI and predictive modeling
- Help design and provide requirements for new or improved analytics and reporting
- Monitor and ensure data quality of the curated data sets using proper reconciliation methods
- Be heavily involved in testing of newly integrated data sources and/or environments
- Develop and improve SAS/SQL programs to perform various complex analysis.
- Analyze change requests in the source systems or projects, assess their impact on existing data layers
- Collaborate with DBAs, other IT teams, Architecture as required
- Implement internal data process improvement: automating manual processes, optimizing data delivery, redesign/restructure database for more efficiency
- Develop expertise and aim to become a subject matter expert on the entire data and analytics ecosystem
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree (Actuarial Sciences/Computer Science/Engineering/Math/Stats/Finance or similar) preferred
- 1-3 years' experience in analytics or similar fields
- Strong business acumen
- Ability to articulate ideas in both technical and business friendly language
- The candidate must be proactive, curious and comfortable working with new data models
- Experience with analytics platforms and methodologies (data lake, data warehouse, data marts, ETL, data modelling, data governance, etc.)
- Experience in SAS/SQL programming for developing data, cleansing, performing data validation, required data integrity checks, auditing data and improve efficiency of programs
- Proficient in MS Word, Excel, VBA, and PowerPoint
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
Bonus qualifications:
- Strong knowledge of Tableau and/or other visual analytics tools is preferred
- Experience with insurance/actuarial data will be considered a plus
Allstate Canada Group has policies and practices that provide workplace accommodations. If you require accommodation, please let us know and we will work with you to meet your needs.
Skills
Actuarial Science, Communication, Data Governance, Data Lake, Data Mart, Data Modeling, Data Strategies, Data Warehousing (DW), Extract Transform Load (ETL), Insurance Industry, Microsoft Power BI, SQL Coding, Stakeholder Management, Statistical Analysis Systems (SAS) Programming, Tableau (Software)
Joining our team isn't just a job - it's an opportunity. One that takes your skills and pushes them to the next level. One that encourages you to challenge the status quo. And one where you can impact the future for the greater good.
You'll do all this in a flexible environment that embraces connection and belonging. And with the recognition of several inclusivity and diversity awards, we've proven that Allstate empowers everyone to lead, drive change and give back where they work and live.
Good Hands. Greater Together.®