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Securian Financial Group

Mutual holding company delivering insurance, investments

Directeur, Analytique et Intelligence d’affaires

Business IntelligenceUpdated on Nov 13
Full-timeCA$130k - CA$170k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree in analytics, data science, statistics, mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, business administration, or a related quantitative discipline is required.
  • More than 10 years of progressive experience in analytics, business intelligence, analytics engineering, data science, decision support, or a related field, including management responsibilities.
  • Demonstrated experience creating, transforming, or significantly evolving analytics capabilities across a complex organization.
  • Strong experience translating ambiguous business issues into concrete analytics solutions, relevant recommendations, and measurable outcomes.
  • Deep expertise in SQL, Python, analytical data modeling, business intelligence platforms, and modern cloud data environments.
  • Experience developing scalable datasets, structured data products, key performance indicator frameworks, semantic models, and enterprise-scale reporting solutions.
  • Strong understanding of modern data ecosystems, from source systems and data engineering through analytics delivery and business-team adoption.
  • Experience applying advanced analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, or artificial-intelligence solutions to business problems.
  • Demonstrated ability to influence executive stakeholders while effectively leading highly technical teams.
  • Strong leadership skills and experience building, mentoring, and developing high-performing teams.
  • Strong communication and data storytelling skills, including the ability to simplify complex concepts and prompt action through data.
  • Strategic, product-oriented mindset focused on delivering durable, scalable solutions that create long-term business value.

Responsibilities

  • Define and implement an analytics and business intelligence roadmap aligned with business, market, customer, and partner priorities.
  • Translate strategic business questions into concrete analytics opportunities, key performance indicator frameworks, data requirements, and decision-support solutions.
  • Produce high-value analyses of business performance, customer behavior, claims experience, product results, portfolio trends, operational effectiveness, and emerging risks.
  • Translate complex findings into clear recommendations and presentations for senior leadership to support informed decision-making.
  • Establish scalable practices that support better prioritization, effective execution, solution adoption, benefits realization, and continuous improvement.
  • Lead the evolution from fragmented reporting to reliable enterprise-scale analytics products.
  • Oversee development of structured datasets, semantic models, certified metrics, dashboards, scorecards, and customer-facing reporting solutions.
  • Collaborate with data pipeline engineering, technology, governance, finance, and business leaders to strengthen the organization’s analytics foundations.
  • Expand self-service analytics while reducing manual effort, duplicated logic, and isolated solutions.
  • Ensure analytics products are reliable, scalable, easy to understand, and centered on actual business needs.
  • Identify opportunities where advanced analytics, machine learning, predictive modeling, and artificial intelligence can generate measurable business value.
  • Prioritize initiatives according to impact, data maturity, adoption potential, and long-term viability.
  • Establish governance mechanisms, controls, data quality standards, explainability requirements, and practices for responsible use of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics.
  • Guide innovative initiatives from ideation through implementation, ensuring clear governance, measurable outcomes, and long-term sustainability.
  • Lead, engage, and coach a team of analytics, business intelligence, reporting, and analytics engineering specialists.
  • Foster a culture of analytics excellence, collaboration, accountability, continuous learning, and business partnership.
  • Coach team members in analytics problem-solving, data product design, data storytelling, and stakeholder management.
  • Support team members in developing skills beyond traditional reporting, including problem definition, root-cause analysis, strategic insight generation, and business recommendations.
  • Create an environment that recognizes and values innovation, curiosity, and measurable results.
  • Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders, aligning business priorities with data-driven solutions.
  • Build strong relationships with Data Solutions, Technology, Finance, Operations, and other internal partners.
  • Influence decision-making by bringing clarity, strategic perspective, and business intelligence to complex issues.
  • Promote a data-driven decision-making culture to improve the confidence, consistency, and quality of organizational decisions.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience in insurance, financial services, or another regulated industry.
  • Experience with cloud data warehouses, lakehouse architectures, and modern self-service business intelligence platforms.
  • Knowledge of responsible artificial intelligence practices, model governance, data quality, data lineage, explainability, and operational controls.

About the Company

Securian Financial Group

Mutual holding company delivering insurance, investments

Securian Financial Group is a mutual holding company that offers a range of financial protection and planning products. It sells individual and group insurance (term life, illness, and accident) as well as credit life and disability products, and it provides investment and retirement solutions. Its products provide financial protection or income support, such as life benefits, medical cost coverage, loan payoff on death, and income replacement during disability, along with saving for retirement. It differentiates itself by being owned by policyholders rather than public shareholders and by operating through multiple subsidiaries to serve a broad U.S. market, with the goal of helping people manage financial risk and plan for retirement.

Company size
Not listed
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
$138.8M
Headquarters
St Paul, MN
Founded
1880

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