Senior Financial Data Analyst– Financial Planning & Analysis

Alberta Blue Cross® is an Alberta based organization dedicated to delivering exceptional customer experience and community leadership. We’re committed to providing the best health coverage to over 1.8 million members and take an active role in promoting wellness. We believe in what we do—and place trust in our employees to deliver our vision.

Working at Alberta Blue Cross® means having a career where you’ll be recognized for your contributions. We value diversity, encourage our team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance and provide opportunities for career growth.

OVERVIEW:

Our Finance Intelligence & Analytics team is excited to welcome a Senior Finance Data Analyst who thrives on collaboration, innovation, and translating financial insights into meaningful business impact. This role will work closely with leaders across Alberta Blue Cross, bringing strong analytical skills and a partnership mindset to support our evolving financial systems and processes.

Reporting to the Manager, Finance Intelligence & Analytics, this position offers a flexible hybrid work arrangement and the opportunity to contribute within one of Alberta’s award‑winning Best Places to Work. The ideal candidate is a systems‑savvy professional with exceptional communication skills, a proactive approach, and the finance/business acumen to influence decision‑making across the organization.

WHAT YOU WILL DO:

• Lead the extraction, transformation, and integration of financial and operational data from multiple internal and external sources to support enterprise‑level planning, forecasting, and reporting.

• Build and maintain robust financial data pipelines, ensuring data accuracy, reliability, and accessibility for advanced analytics, modeling, and automated reporting.

• Design, enhance, and oversee complex financial reports, dashboards, and analytical insights that support strategic decision‑making across FP&A and business leadership.

• Perform deep‑dive financial and operational analysis, interpreting trends, investigating discrepancies, and translating data into actionable recommendations.

• Identify, design, and implement automation opportunities using Power BI, Alteryx, Power Automate, Python, or other relevant tools to streamline reporting and analytical workflows.

• Partner closely with Enterprise IT, data engineering, and analytics teams to ensure strong data governance, well‑structured data flows, and the continuous improvement of finance data infrastructure.

• Coordinate and manage the FIA’s Power BI Service workspace, ensuring all reports and dashboards are published, organized, refreshed, and properly governed.

• Participate in and at times lead finance transformation initiatives, including reporting modernization, automation projects, system enhancements, and process redesign efforts.

• Recommend and build machine learning and AI techniques that elevate the analytical capabilities of the FP&A function and drive more sophisticated financial insights.

• Champion best practices in data quality, documentation, consistency, and operational excellence, helping raise the overall data and analytics maturity of the department.

WHAT YOU WILL HAVE:

• Postgraduate degree in Finance, Data Analytics, Statistics, or a related field.

• 4+ years of experience working within a finance function in a medium‑ to large‑scale organization.

• Strong capability in developing, analyzing, and enhancing automated financial reports, dashboards, and forecasting models to drive business insights.

• Proven ability to support and streamline financial data flows, ensuring that finance teams have accurate, timely, and meaningful data for planning and decision‑making.

• Exceptional attention to detail, strong organizational skills, and a commitment to accuracy and quality.

• Ability to balance multiple priorities, anticipate challenges, and consistently meet deadlines.

• A proactive mindset with a strong sense of ownership and accountability.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Power BI (desktop and service) and experience with other Power Platform tools is a must.

• Solid experience writing SQL queries, Python, and building data pipelines is a must.

• Experience developing machine learning models for financial planning or forecasting and using AI tools is a must.

• Experience in Databricks is an asset.

• Experience administering Workday Financials and Workday Adaptive Planning is an asset.

This position will remain open until suitable candidates are selected.

Alberta Blue Cross® is an inclusive employer committed to a workplace that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve. We empower and are advocates for our team members by welcoming, respecting and valuing their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences.

We offer the opportunity to work in an innovative, high-energy team-focused environment. If you have the qualifications we are looking for, apply online at careers.ab.bluecross.ca

A criminal record check satisfactory to Alberta Blue Cross will be required as a condition of employment, following a conditional offer.