Data Consultant
Manulife is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. The Data Consultant role involves contributing to the development of metric automation and data analytic efforts for Global Compliance, with responsibilities that include collaborating with various teams and enhancing data analytic tools.
Responsibilities
- Develop, maintain and update relevant dashboards and other data analytic tools and technologies that support partner efficiency, reporting, analysis and risk informed decision-making
- Proactively enhance data analytic and general technology and technological skills within the Compliance teams
- Independently identify, analyze and define material, unmet business needs, issues, trends and opportunities within the Compliance function and recommend potential data analytic or other technology solutions
- Actively participate in projects and initiatives
- Partner, coordinate and collaborate with team members, partners and leaders within the LCG function and in other functions like Finance, Technology, Strategy and Risk
- Assist in identifying, planning and implementing change and/or continuous improvement opportunities and associated dependencies and/or roadblocks, with recommended options for addressing them
- Find opportunities to use AI in achieving function’s goals and objectives
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Math, Computer Science, Engineering; or equivalent work experience
- Master's degree in relevant field or 1-3 years of progressive analytics and technology architecture experience with expertise including cloud-based technologies (Azure, Synapse), big data, data lakes, master data management, advanced data analytics for data gathering, storing and retrieval methods on various data platforms, both structured and unstructured
- Familiarity with basic statistical tests, distributions, maximum likelihood estimators, statistical modelling techniques (regression, cluster / factor / principal components, decision tree, survival analysis, etc.)
- Basic understanding of different techniques and knowledge of machine learning algorithms
- Knowledge of AI toolkits, how to create AI Agents
- Expert in data visualization tools such as Power BI
- Capability of applying a systematic, structured approach to explore / navigate / mine substantial amount of data, structured or un-structured, to uncover hidden patterns / insights
- Comfort working in a complex data environment with a wide variety of systems and numerous internal organizations
- Outstanding analytic and problem-solving skills, using data and information to highlight key themes and make recommendations for a senior executive audience
Benefits
- Employees also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn incentive compensation tied to business and individual performance.
- Manulife offers eligible employees a wide array of customizable benefits, including health, dental, mental health, vision, short- and long-term disability, life and AD&D insurance coverage, adoption/surrogacy and wellness benefits, and employee/family assistance plans.
- We also offer eligible employees various retirement savings plans (including pension and a global share ownership plan with employer matching contributions) and financial education and counseling resources.
- Our generous paid time off program in Canada includes holidays, vacation, personal, and sick days, and we offer the full range of statutory leaves of absence.
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