Job Description
Junior Data Analyst
Support strategic data-driven initiatives in the insurance industry with a hybrid contract role based in Waterloo. This opportunity is ideal for those with foundational analytics skills, offering hands-on experience in business analysis, data visualization tools like Tableau or PowerBI, and stakeholder collaboration.
What is in it for you:•Hourly salary of $28-30, based on experience.
• 6-month contract.
• Full-time position: hours per week.
• In-office presence required from Tuesday to Thursday.
• Remote work available on Mondays and Fridays.
Responsibilities:
• Assist in requirement collection, research, and analysis to understand business issues.
• Actively participate on cross-functional project teams and support analytics solution development.
• Own and manage assigned tasks.
• Work on problems of limited scope or complexity, following standard practices and procedures.
• Develop ability to generate relevant, actionable insights through iterative data analysis.
• Translate data-driven outputs into business language and provide recommendations.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for revenue generation, efficiency improvement, and data-driven insights.
• Provide analysis on basic business needs and support potential analytics solutions under guidance.
• Communicate analytics insights and facilitate implementation.
• Share requirements and insights with senior team members and junior business partners.
• Participate in meetings with subject matter experts to understand business needs and analytics insights.
• Build a fundamental understanding of the business value chain and customer lifecycle.
• Ask relevant questions to peers and customers to gain knowledge.
• Share ideas, participate in brainstorming sessions, and provide rationale behind suggestions.
• Build stable working relationships across teams and expand internal network.
• Seek coaching and apply feedback to improve performance.
• Take ownership of career development by leveraging available learning resources.
• Understand how assigned tasks contribute to broader project objectives.
What you will need to succeed:• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Math, Computer Science, or Engineering; or equivalent technical experience.
• Basic knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau, QlikView, or PowerBI.
• Foundational understanding of data transformation for BI reporting.
• Basic understanding of SQL for AdHoc reporting.
• Introductory knowledge of AI toolkits.
• Ability to support the development of systematic processes for implementing analytics insights:
• Design processes with defined roles and responsibilities.
• Identify tasks, system/data flows, and contingencies.
• Specify checks and balances.
• Establish tracking and closed-loop learning mechanisms.
• Assist in scalable implementation of such processes.
• Assist in gathering, documenting, and analyzing business requirements.
• Help translate business problems into analytics tasks with guidance.
• Support development of conceptual prototypes and mock-ups of analytics solutions.
• Communicate analytics findings and solutions to business stakeholders.
• Present insights in a format easily understood by non-technical audiences.
Support strategic data-driven initiatives in the insurance industry with a hybrid contract role based in Waterloo. This opportunity is ideal for those with foundational analytics skills, offering hands-on experience in business analysis, data visualization tools like Tableau or PowerBI, and stakeholder collaboration.
What is in it for you:•Hourly salary of $28-30, based on experience.
• 6-month contract.
• Full-time position: hours per week.
• In-office presence required from Tuesday to Thursday.
• Remote work available on Mondays and Fridays.
Responsibilities:
• Assist in requirement collection, research, and analysis to understand business issues.
• Actively participate on cross-functional project teams and support analytics solution development.
• Own and manage assigned tasks.
• Work on problems of limited scope or complexity, following standard practices and procedures.
• Develop ability to generate relevant, actionable insights through iterative data analysis.
• Translate data-driven outputs into business language and provide recommendations.
• Collaborate with business stakeholders to identify opportunities for revenue generation, efficiency improvement, and data-driven insights.
• Provide analysis on basic business needs and support potential analytics solutions under guidance.
• Communicate analytics insights and facilitate implementation.
• Share requirements and insights with senior team members and junior business partners.
• Participate in meetings with subject matter experts to understand business needs and analytics insights.
• Build a fundamental understanding of the business value chain and customer lifecycle.
• Ask relevant questions to peers and customers to gain knowledge.
• Share ideas, participate in brainstorming sessions, and provide rationale behind suggestions.
• Build stable working relationships across teams and expand internal network.
• Seek coaching and apply feedback to improve performance.
• Take ownership of career development by leveraging available learning resources.
• Understand how assigned tasks contribute to broader project objectives.
What you will need to succeed:• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Statistics, Math, Computer Science, or Engineering; or equivalent technical experience.
• Basic knowledge of data visualization tools such as Tableau, QlikView, or PowerBI.
• Foundational understanding of data transformation for BI reporting.
• Basic understanding of SQL for AdHoc reporting.
• Introductory knowledge of AI toolkits.
• Ability to support the development of systematic processes for implementing analytics insights:
• Design processes with defined roles and responsibilities.
• Identify tasks, system/data flows, and contingencies.
• Specify checks and balances.
• Establish tracking and closed-loop learning mechanisms.
• Assist in scalable implementation of such processes.
• Assist in gathering, documenting, and analyzing business requirements.
• Help translate business problems into analytics tasks with guidance.
• Support development of conceptual prototypes and mock-ups of analytics solutions.
• Communicate analytics findings and solutions to business stakeholders.
• Present insights in a format easily understood by non-technical audiences.
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