Business Intelligence Analyst

At AFSC, we want to work with talented people from a wide range of backgrounds. We strive to create a psychologically safe environment where we can all be ourselves and perform to the best of our abilities. We care about each other, about Alberta and about agriculture. We are innovative, knowledgeable, and diverse and love what Albertan agriculture produces for people around the world. The perseverance and hard work we see from our clients inspires us to show that same work ethic in everything that we do. Working together, we grow and sustain the agriculture industry in Alberta.

Posting will close September 17th, 2023.

Location is flexible, within Alberta, dependent on the successful applicant.

Reporting to Manager, Business Intelligence, this position is responsible in coordinating Business Intelligence Services in the corporation to provide insightful information for the data driven decision-making. This position plays a critical role in adopting BI and Analytics best practices in coordination with other team members, AFSC internal staff, and external support providers.

What will your growth opportunities look like in this role?
- Learn and become knowledgeable in the insurance, lending, and risk management aspects of the business.
- Increased experience, certification, and leadership opportunities in relation to platforms supported.
- In-house learning and development.

What will you be responsible for?
- Work with business stakeholders to identify and prioritize potential use cases for advanced analytics.
- Gather business requirements, design, and develop analytical products such as statistical models, canned reports, dashboards and KPI scorecards.
- Perform data cleaning and preprocessing where required and create data pipeline for modeling.
- Write scripts to analyze data to discover patterns, meaningful relationships, anomalies and trends.
- Explore statistical models and machine learning algorithms to solve business problems for identified use cases.
- Explore diverse sources of data, extract relevant features to improve model performance and predictive accuracy.
- Run data analysis with scenarios to assist in improving the programs delivered by AFSC.
- Communicate and explain analytical process and results to business stakeholders.
- Coordinate and execute the functional and acceptance testing for analytical models and BI products.
- Assist in the deployment of analytical models and BI products in the operational platforms.
- Create and maintain technical and user documentation to a high standard.

What are we looking for from you?
- Strong analytical thinking and strives for increased data integrity/credibility for all programs.
- Ability to convert business need into logical solutions and write scripts to execute those.
- Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
- Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
- Understands data analytics best practices, with a focus on continuous improvement.
- Builds partnerships and works collaboratively with others to meet shared objectives.
- Takes on new opportunities and tough challenges with a sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm.
- Builds trust by honoring commitments and being open and honest at work.
- Learns innovative methods, tools, and technology and applies them to work tasks.

What else is in it for you?
- Health, dental, and vision benefits on your first day of employment
- Health spending account
- Corporate functions
- Winter closure
- PSPP contributions
- Generous vacation and special leave days
- Health and wellness initiatives

**Qualifications**:

- University Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics/Statistics or Information Systems with 2 years of related experience
- Strong programming background in Python and/or R with experience in technical leadership is required.
- Programming skill in SAS language is preferred.
- Knowledge and experience in geospatial data is considered as an asset.

For those not meeting the minimum education, additional related work experience will be deemed equivalent. Pro-active in continued professional and personal skill development is an ongoing expectation.

About AFSC
For over 80 years Agriculture Financial Services (AFSC) has provided Alberta's agricultural producers and agribusinesses with loans, crop insurance and farm income disaster assistance. At AFSC, we’re proud of the work we do to help build a strong, growing and diversified agriculture and agri-food industry in Alberta. Many AFSC team members are also producers and know first-hand the challenges and rewards Alberta producers face.