Job Consultant in Toronto

The Opportunity:

We are a leading Canadian financial services co-operative committed to being a catalyst for a sustainable and resilient society and our team is essential to deliver on this strategy. That’s why we prioritize our people, to ensure we provide a strong culture and development opportunities which enables our team to thrive and to live our purpose. The best part is that you will work with people that care passionately about you, our clients and our communities.

Our Business Intelligence team empowers decision making using leading edge science and analytics. We champion a scientific culture through our passion for continuous learning, diversity and innovation. We strive to deliver a single version of truth, by providing our business partners with access to comprehensive data and valuable insights to help our organization achieve operational excellence.

As a Research & Innovation Consultant, you will support our Risk Assist project by developing analytical solutions to support our advisors in decision making regarding risk acceptance. You will play a key part in leading the project and other initiatives, coaching peers and communicating with stakeholders.

How you will create impact:

• Extract data as required for project analysis or analysis of our book of business using BI tools or programming language (SQL, SAS, MicroStrategy).

• Do the appropriate validations to ensure the produced data extract is accurate, complete and reconciles.

• Understand, develop, maintain and improve predictive statistical models used in BI.

• Measure and monitor the performance of statistical models used in BI and take proactive actions in improvement of the solutions

• Decide the appropriate type of model to be used for a BI problem between a variety of common models (regressions, decision trees, etc.).

• Lead and Support Actuarial Research projects, including developing and testing non-standard and innovative approaches for modeling insurance risk.

• Lead and Support Non-Actuarial Research projects, including delivering predictive analytics solutions to support marketing, operations, and product. (E.g. Claim fraud detection models, Client Long-Term-Value index, etc.).

• Using a scientific approach, research and develop solutions to new analytical problems.

• Lead the quantification of the underlying benefits of the analytical solutions factoring in the business context, client and stakeholder needs.

How you will succeed:

• You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.

• You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.

• You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.

• You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.

To join our team:

• 7 years of relevant experience OR 5 years with a graduate degree in a relevant field.

• University Degree in Actuarial Science, Mathematics, Statistics or relevant field.

• Property and Casualty insurance experience is preferred.

• Exposure to the use of job related applications, appliances and programming languages (SAS, SQL, Netezza, MicroStrategy) is an asset.

What you need to know:

• You will be subject to a background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.

What's in it for you?

• Training and development opportunities to grow your career.

• Flexible work options and paid time off to support your personal and family needs.

• A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and a supportive workplace culture.

• Paid volunteer days to give back to your community.

• A comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive salary, bonus, pension and benefits.