Job Description
Data Analyst-S10-5310-47-70138-01
Description
Canadian Tire Financial Services (CTFS), with its wholly owned subsidiary Canadian Tire Bank, offers valuable financial products and services and is one of Canada’s top MasterCard issuers. In addition to managing over 4 million Canadian Tire MasterCard accounts, CTFS markets a variety of insurance and warranty products including Credit Protector and Product Protector.
Named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in 2009, a national competition that identifies employers who lead their industries in offering exceptional workplaces for their employees, CTFS was recognized for its extensive community involvement, flexible benefits, focus on employee development and commitment to employee communication.
http://www.eluta.ca/top-employer-canadian-tire-financial-services
CTFS offers all the career benefits of a large corporation, with all the lifestyle advantages of a close-knit community. Creating a performance culture, while promoting personal fulfillment, is at the heart of what CTFS does every day.
Department Mandate:
Information Management’s mandate is to increase the benefit CTFS realizes from its investment in data and analysis while lowering risk and cost. Our strategy is to focus on definition, quality, availability and integration of data. The Information Analyst roles are varied combinations of quality assurance, governance, coordination, vendor management and data provisioning. This requires working with most areas of the business, Information Technology (IT) and some key vendors. The emphasis of this particular role at this time is to provide data stewardship for the customer centric system.
Position Summary:
The Information Analyst roles are varied combinations of quality assurance, governance, coordination, vendor management and data provisioning. This requires working with most areas of the business, IT and some key vendors. The emphasis of this particular role at this time is to provide data stewardship for the customer centric system.
Job Responsibilities:
· Ensure quality of the customer centric system.
· Subject matter expert and governance on the integration, matching, placement and flow of CTFS customer data.
· Identify customer data quality issues, opportunities and alternative solutions.
· Maintain test cases and results, oversee testing process.
· Explain and promote customer centric system capability. Participate in development of new business cases.
· Continuous learning with respect to data management and data quality and its impact on the business.
Note: Position is currently located in Welland and is scheduled to move to a new facility in the Great Lakes Business Park, Superior Court, Oakville effective March 2011.
Qualifications
Must Have:
· Strong analytical ability with experience applying those skills to identifying, resolving and preventing data quality issues.
· Ambitious self starter able to manage work priorities towards objectives.
· Good communication and facilitation skills applicable to governance and coordination role.
· Ability to use physical and logical data design, data flows to help clarify issues and solutions with business or technical participants.
· Solid SQL type skills or background with demonstrated ability to develop and learn.
· Good overall knowledge of ETL type issues and solutions.
· Ability to connect data management principles to business benefits.
Assets:
· Excellent knowledge of CTFS data, its uses, current strengths and weaknesses.
· Experience with Meta Data Management
Job
: Corporate / Distribution
Primary Location
: ON-Niagara Region-Welland
Schedule
: Full-time
Job Posting
: 06/10/2010
Unposting Date
: 06/24/2010
