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POSITION LOCATION / WORK ARRANGEMENT:
The designated worksite for this position is the Toronto, Ontario OSFI Office. However, the employee may work from the Toronto or Ottawa office.
OSFI’s hybrid model includes telework and mandatory onsite presence. The terms of the employee’s telework arrangement will be established in accordance with the Directive on Telework and the Guidelines on Hybrid Work. These arrangements must be reviewed annually, at a minimum, and can be subject to change.
EMPLOYMENT EQUITY:
OSFI is dedicated to building and promoting a diverse, equitable and inclusive workforce, representative of all Canadians regardless of race, ethnicity, colour, religion, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, socio-economic background or lived experience. By embracing diversity and inclusion, our department ensures broader discussions, better decisions, and a more positive workplace. We welcome all candidates to apply and strongly encourage candidates to self-declare if they belong to an Employment Equity designated group: Aboriginal Peoples, Persons with Disabilities, Women or Visible Minorities (Black people and other racialized groups).
* The term “Aboriginal” is used within this job advertisement as it relates to the Employment Equity Act and other legislative frameworks. The term “Indigenous” is used where possible, in alignment with the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. Indigenous refers to North American Indigenous people as members of First Nations, Inuit, or Métis. North American Indigenous people or members of First Nation include treaty, status or registered Indigenous people, as well as those non-status and non-registered.
The RE-05 Senior Analyst (Data Quality) will play an important role in the data quality team. This position will provide data quality support on key datasets to ensure timely, accurate, and complete reporting of data. Leveraging a mix of data engineering and data analytics and data visualization skills, and in collaboration with stakeholders across the enterprise and external partners and financial institutions, the RE-05 Senior Analyst (Data Quality) will:
• Conduct analytics and develop and maintain data quality tools and processes including developing dashboards, reports, analytics, business intelligence (BI) solutions and implement methodologies and data quality validation rules.
• Conduct data cleansing and data profiling to standardize data fields, identify anomalies, inconsistencies and errors in the data.
• Identifies opportunities to enhance data quality reporting and tools.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and subject matter experts to discuss data quality findings and perform root cause analysis to determine underlying issues and implement corrective actions.
• Implement data validation rules and checks to ensure data accuracy and consistency including cross validation of returns.
• Continuous active monitoring of data quality metrics and trends to identify issues in real-time.
• Communicate data issues to financial institutions and external stakeholders.
Our Role:
OSFI is an independent federal government agency that regulates and supervises more than 400 federally regulated financial institutions and 1,200 pension plans to determine whether they are in sound financial condition and to ensure they protect themselves against threats to their integrity and security. In fulfilling its mandate, OSFI supports the government's objective of contributing to public confidence in the Canadian financial system.
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Why Choose OSFI:
People are the foundation of our organization. You will become part of a diverse community that acknowledges everyone has varied experience and fosters an environment where communication and teamwork amplify our effectiveness. OSFI is passionate about fostering a workplace where all people feel welcome, can reach their full potential, and contribute their unique perspectives and experience to the success of the team. We have several networks dedicated to ensuring that the department continues to grow as an inclusive, accessible, respectful, and diverse workplace. Some examples include: 2SLGBTQIA+, Mental Health and Accessibility, Multiculturalism (Affinity Groups: Indigenous, Asian, Black), Unconscious Bias.
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💵 Compensation: OSFI offers a competitive salary, and employees may be eligible for in-range increases and economic adjustments. Salaries are based on qualifications, experience and knowledge. The Public Service Pension Plan is a defined benefit pension plan (indexed for inflation), where both the employer and the employee contribute.
🏥 Health Care Coverage: OSFI employees and their dependents are eligible to be enrolled in the Public Service Health Care Plan, designed to supplement provincial/territorial health insurance plans.
💰 Performance Pay: OSFI employees are eligible for an annual bonus based on their performance throughout the year.
✈️ Vacation and Leave: OSFI employees start with 4 weeks of paid vacation, 2 personal days and 5 days of Family Related Leave with Pay among other various types of paid and unpaid leave.
💻 Flexible Work Arrangements: OSFI offers flexible work arrangements by providing support for compressed work week schedules, flexible work hours and teleworking, in order for employees to achieve their work objectives while achieving balance between work and homelife.
📖 Learning and Development: OSFI offers career advancement opportunities and encourages innovative thinking in its work environment. Employees may be reimbursed for relevant professional association membership fees.
A pool of qualified or partially qualified candidates may be created to staff similar or identical positions with various linguistic profiles, security requirements, tenures, and/or locations within the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI), which may vary according to the position being staffed.
Positions to be filled: 3
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ESSENTIAL EDUCATION
• A degree OR diploma from a recognized post-secondary institution with specialization in business, commerce, economics, statistics, mathematics, data analytics, computer science, engineering or other relevant field.
OR
An acceptable combination* of relevant experience AND education or training.
*At the manager’s discretion, OSFI may consider candidates who do not possess a degree or diploma but meet the combination of experience and education or training if concrete examples are provided.
ESSENTIAL EXPERIENCE
• Recent* and significant** experience accessing and analysing large scale data.
• Recent* and significant** experience programming with scripting language such as PySpark, Python or SQL for data preparation, data cleansing and data analysis.
• Recent* and significant** experience developing and deploying dashboards using modern BI tools such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Experience*** investigating data issues or performing data analytics, analyzing options and making recommendations to stakeholders.
• Experience***in the financial services industry **** in one or more of the following key areas: Risk Management, Finance, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Internal Audit, External Audit (includes experience in assessing risk and control effectiveness), Commercial and/or Retail Credit, Underwriting, Analysis of Profitability, Control Effectiveness and Financial Results, Strategic Planning, Mergers and acquisitions, Data Analytics OR Experience*** in Data Analytics on loan portfolios of financially regulated institutions to support supervisory and monitoring activities.
* Recent is as ANY relevant experience gained within approximately the last three (3) years.
**Significant is defined as the depth and breadth of the experience normally associated with the performance of the duties for a period of five (5) years.
***Experience is understood to mean the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with having performed a broad range of related activities. The amount of complexity and the diversity of tasks, as well as the autonomy level will be taken into consideration.
**** Financial services industry experience is defined as experience working in one or more of the following areas: (a) financial institutions including banks, trust and loan companies, insurance companies and pension plans (b) firms dealing with audits or consulting engagements to such institutions (including reinsurance brokers) (c) technology and data companies providing services to financial institutions or linked to the delivery of financial services (d) government departments that directly deal with the supervision and regulation of these institutions (e) Indigenous Institutions including: Band operations, trustees or administrators of pension plans, insurance institutions, lending institutions or other related areas providing financial services (f) other relevant areas, such as but not limited to, financial risk management, investment management, corporate treasury functions or commercial lending.
ASSET EDUCATION
• A relevant recognized professional designation
ASSET EXPERIENCE
• Recent* and significant** experience developing and implementing large data projects involving multiple stakeholders including subject matter experts, analysts or senior management.
• Recent* and significant** experience developing and maintaining collaborative relationships with interdisciplinary stakeholders.
• Experience*** leading in meetings with stakeholders.
• Experience*** implementing operational or analytical data quality processes or validation rules or methodologies or performance metrics.
*Recent is as ANY relevant experience gained within approximately the last three (3) years.
**Significant is defined as the depth and breadth of the experience normally associated with the performance of the duties for a period of five (5) years.
***Experience is understood to mean the depth and breadth of experience normally associated with having performed a broad range of related activities. The amount of complexity and the diversity of tasks, as well as the autonomy level will be taken into consideration.
English essential
Information on language requirements
ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of techniques and ability to perform and present data analytics results to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Knowledge of data quality principals and best practices.
• Knowledge of BI reporting platforms.
ESSENTIAL COMPETENCIES
• Collaboration
• Innovation
• Critical Thinking
• Results Orientation
ESSENTIAL ABILITIES
• Ability to communicate effectively in writing.
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally.
ASSET KNOWLEDGE
• Knowledge of data mining processes and best practices
ASSET ABILITIES
• Ability to quickly learn new tools and techniques, including those from open-source software.
ORGANIZATIONAL NEEDS
OSFI is committed to having a skilled and diverse workforce representative of the Canadian population. In order to meet our employment equity objectives, selection for this position may be made from among qualified candidates who self-declare as belonging to one or more of the following Employment Equity groups: Persons with a disability, Aboriginal people, Members of a Visible Minority, or Women. OSFI is committed to diversity and inclusion, and we strongly encourage candidates to self-declare if they belong to one of these designated employment equity groups.
OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS
• Ability and willingness to work overtime.
• Ability and willingness to travel within Canada when required.
Reliability Status security clearance
In our hybrid workplace environment, the ability to work remotely from home within Canada with access to the Internet in one’s residence is a condition of employment.
The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.
Information on employment equity
• For external processes (as indicated by the abbreviation “EA” in the selection process number), only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.
• OSFI is a separate agency with its own classification and compensation system. OSFI's staffing is subject to the Public Service Employment Act (PSEA).
• All written and verbal communication obtained throughout the staffing process, from the time of application to close of process, may be used to evaluate the candidate.
• Candidates must meet all of the essential qualifications to be appointed; however, depending on the requirements of the specific position(s) being staffed, one or more asset criteria or organizational need may be invoked at any stage of the process.
• Staffing strategies such as random selection, top-down approach and/or establishing cut-off scores to determine who will continue in the staffing process, may be used for the purpose of managing applications. Please note that although you may attain the established pass mark on any of the assessments used in this staffing process, management may decide to use a higher cut off score.
• During the staffing process, various assessment methods can be utilized, including but not limited to written exams and interviews. These assessments may be conducted either remotely or in-person at one of our OSFI offices (Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal or Vancouver).
• Eligible candidates may be considered and offered a deployment or Interchange before considering other applicants.
• Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.
• Email correspondence will be the only method of communication with candidates for this selection process, please ensure it accepts messages from unknown users. Please ensure you check your spam folder for any communications from OSFI. You must provide valid and updated contact information.
• All job applications must be submitted through the Government of Canada public service jobs website. Do not email or mail hard copy documents as these will not be accepted. To submit an application online, please click on the "apply now" button. Persons without Internet access may also review jobs open to the public through INFOTEL at 1-800-645-5605.
• If you have a limitation that may impact your performance at any step of the assessment process (such as submitting the application, written test, or an interview), you may request an accommodation. Assessment accommodations are designed to remove barriers, and to ensure that candidates with limitations can fully demonstrate their abilities. Should you wish to be accommodated, please inform us by sending an e-mail to the following address: . All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.
Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.
Information on the preference to veterans
We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.