Data Visualization Specialist - Toronto, Canada - Scotiabank

Scotiabank

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 days ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Requisition ID: 171840

Dynamic Funds is a wholly owned subsidiary of Scotiabank, headquartered in Toronto.

Dynamic Funds was established as a small investment club in Montreal in 1957, where it was a pioneer in providing professional investment advice to retail investors.

Since then, we have evolved to become one of Canada's most recognized wealth management firms. We offer a comprehensive range of products and services, spanning every major sector, geographic region and investment discipline. Our financial solutions include open and closed-end investment funds, fee-based, tax-advantaged and customized high-net-worth programs

Purpose of Job:

Major Accountabilities:

1. Digital Strategy

Work with the Director and Strategic Alliances team to formulate ideas and plans for the creation and use of technology to facilitate business objectives of increasing sales quality of output and operational efficiency
Stay informed of best practice in innovation and data visualization tools, with a focus on generating actionable insights within captivating dashboards and reporting
Advise the Director on data governance best practices and support implementation

2. Analytics & Reporting

Use varying data mining techniques to design and implement analytics and reporting to support various internal partners and products
Perform analyses to find patterns and extract useful insights, predictions or knowledge from large or varying data sets
Create meaningful visualizations to better communicate complicated data analyses

3. Business Process and Continuous Improvement

Work with partner departments to identify opportunities for business improvement and develop an appropriate solution for their needs in cooperation with the Sales Reporting & Analytics team
Responsible for working with the Director to develop and maintain a system of training and developing colleagues within the business unit
Oversees the development and administration of software tools to identify the need for adding controls to new and existing business processes

4. Data Governance

Develop a structure and process to oversee data integrity in order to properly mine and roll up underlying data for management and sales reporting
Create and maintain a data dictionary to ensure new data is properly maintained, categorized and linked within existing reporting structures
Document all existing reports, their purposes, and end users to determine which reports are redundant, out of date, or no longer being used, to decommission them as required
Create a reporting map to identify how existing reports are affected by new products or business lines, and ensure new data is suppressed from reporting as required

Education/Work Experience/Designations

University Degree or equivalent College Diploma
Completion of IFIC operations and / or CSC
Minimum of 7 years relevant experience in an analytical or technical role (preferably in the mutual fund / financial services industry)
Advanced knowledge of relational databases (e.g. Microsoft Access, SQL, Progress Results)
Strong knowledge of analytics and statistical tools
Experience in agile methodologies and BPM a strong asset
Experience working in a research and development environment an asset
Knowledge of industry systems an asset (i.e. iFast, fundserv, Salesforce, MicroStrategy, Tableau, Power BI, Broadridge)
Excellent problemsolving and decisionmaking skills
Proven experience leading operational projects
Strong project management / product management skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Ability to multitask with conflicting priorities
Ability to accept challenges and adapt to a changing environment
Bilingualism an asset (English and French)

Location(s): Canada : Ontario : Toronto