Analytics Centre Of Excellence (Ace) Intern

Vancity is the largest private sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada. Come join our team of 2,600 diverse individuals and access competitive rewards & benefits, all while knowing you are a part of a greater movement.
Do you want to be part of establishing the newly formed Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACE) at Vancity?
ACE is a force for change. Our mandate is simple – we leverage our data with actionable insights that help our leaders make stronger decisions. We use a deeply human approach – telling stories in the language of our stakeholders with a proactive and predictive lens. We don’t rely on complex charts; we focus on the ‘so what’ of every question and insight to deliver value. We work collaboratively with our colleagues to serve our members and our business.
This role will enjoy hybrid working arrangements which can be fulfilled primarily from the Vancity head office location and your Lower Mainland based home office. Periodically, in-person events or activities will be required of you.
We’re a team that’s challenging the status quo and driving an analytical mindset shift across our organization. We are on the hunt for curious, empathetic critical thinkers to build our team, our reputation, and our knowledge.

• This role will accelerate the development of how insights are developed, shared, and applied across our business. You’ll work on a variety of ad hoc requests exploring how we can best utilize our data and share the impact of insight across the organization in a human, actionable way.
• You’ll support our efforts to educate the wider business on analytics best practice, develop engaging thought leadership & instill rigorous process to our ways of working as a CoE and with other areas of business.
• We are looking for an ACE Intern to support the development of key strategic work in our newly formed Analytics Centre of Excellence (CoE).
• You’ll support our Data Utilization strategy to grow data literacy and stewardship across the organization, diagnose business-critical data points, and explore opportunities for data improvements that will bolster decision-making.

A Typical Day Will Involve
Over a 12-week internship, the successful candidate will work with business leaders and the ACE team to help us build a best-in-class Analytics Centre of Excellence
A significant focus of your role will be exploring our data set to build out ad hoc insights to challenge conventional assumptions, invalidate hypotheses, and unearth new insights of interest. This will include developing insights for the purpose of provoking thought and educating stakeholders on the potential use cases for strategic insight, data utilization and advanced analytics in our organization.
Additionally, you will support early thinking on long-term advanced analytics work around member engagement, life-time value and predictive modeling of the membership base.
Apart from this work, you will spend time humanizing insights from data by crafting narratives with analysis and a clear ‘so what’ with measurable recommendations.
Meeting with business stakeholders, doing data discovery, completing insight work and creating visualizations to deliver nuggets of actionable insights.
You Are

• Proactive
• Able to contextualize output in the language of your business stakeholder
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Curious

You Have

• Good presentation skills, able to organize information and present analytical result in an efficient manner
• Ability to access complex data sources, explore data resources, clean and compile data to provide analytical driven solutions to real business problems
• Near completion of a post-graduate degree in Analytics or insights
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Economics, Finance, or other quantitative fields
• Excellent analytical thinking capability, skilled at translating business problems into analytical questions and summarizing data to reach conclusion
• Good communication skills. Strong ability to explain complicated ideas to broader audiences using non-technical language
• 2-4 years of experience in analytics
• Proficiency with MS SQL, R/Python, Power BI / Tableau
• Working level statistical skills, including regression, time series, champion/challenger testing, and decision tree modeling
• Strong data mining skills

Bonus Points, If You Have

• Experience in data story-telling and visualization
• Experience in building case studies
• Experience in Financial Institutions

The Team
In this role, you report into Director, Strategic Insights.
Posting Deadline: Please apply by 4.00pm April 28, 2023
We Offer

• We are the largest private-sector Living Wage Employer in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the Top Employers in Canada
• Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience.
As part of this commitment we are taking action to learn more about our applicants and ask that you complete a short and anonymous Diversity Survey that will influence the design and execution of Vancity’s overall DEI initiatives and programs, one of which aims to advance our commitment to become a financial force for change and build a fair world. Please click this hyperlink to complete the Diversity Survey. Your responses are collected anonymously and will never be linked to your job application.
Please note that all shortlisted candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes resume verification, credit check, criminal record check. Vancity is an inclusive and equitable employer and actively seeks to advance racial equity, inclusion and belonging across the organization. Vancity offers required accommodations in all stages of the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please advise us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.