Business Insights Analyst

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
The Business Insights Analyst team within Finance collaborates with representatives across Sales Planning and the distribution channel, leveraging data and analytics to deliver strategies and solutions that drive profitable growth. The analyst is one with exceptional data and manipulation skills and an analytical mindset.

This position reports to the Manager, Sales Planning and Analytics. You will be accountable for supporting the achievement of ACG's short and long-term Mission, Vision, and Strategic Objectives.

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. Serving Canadians since 1953, Allstate strives to reassure both customers and employees with its 'You're in Good Hands®' promise and is proud to have been named a Best Employer in Canada for nine consecutive years. Allstate is committed to making a positive difference in the communities in which it operates through partnerships with charitable organizations, employee giving and volunteerism. To learn more, visit www.allstate.ca. For safety tips and advice, visit www.goodhandsadvice.ca.

Through our Employee Value Proposition, 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!

• Data discovery across various data sources on an ad-hoc basis

• Foster descriptive and diagnostic analytics to influence prescriptive analytics resulting in strategically guided business decisions

• Transforming data into information, and information into insight

• Simplify data and insights through best practices in data storytelling and data visualization.

• Propose KPI tracking and measurement for new programs and initiatives

• Influence forecasting and targets for various programs with data

• Replace reports generated within stakeholder groups with the use of optimization tools to create automated, interactive dashboards enabling powerful data exploration and proactive self-serve analytics

• Innovate and influence the design of new dashboards with a focus on simplicity and usability

• Provision execution of reporting into data visualization tools by gathering requirements, performing data validation, UAT testing, and communicating the rollout of new dashboards

• Consolidate analytical and data requirements on project initiatives

• Collaborate across the organization to evaluate enterprise-wide data and reporting available in support of providing analytical solutions to business partners

• Consult and provide input on current data libraries and reports to help foster the implementation/creation of new initiatives

• Provide analytical assistance to business partners in enhancing operational excellence and supporting sustainable profitable growth of the business with proactive analytics

• Recommend program design features and technology architecture to ensure proper data collection for optimal reporting metrics and analysis capabilities to influence program success

• Propose KPI tracking and measurement for new programs and initiatives

• Influence forecasting and targets for various programs with data

• Post-Secondary Education

• 3 or more years of experience (Preferred)

• Data Analytics and Story Telling

• Report & Dashboard Building and Revamping

• Advanced knowledge of SAS and SQL

• Working experience with data visualization tools like Tableau, Power BI

• Working experience with Microsoft Suite with an emphasis on Excel and O365

• This job does not have supervisory duties.