The Senior Data Analyst is responsible for designing, developing, analyzing, and interpreting business, technology, and cybersecurity risk metrics to provide actionable insights that support strategic decision-making and drive business performance. As part of the GBS COO – Business Insights & Analytics team in Manulife.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze trends across KRIs, KCIs, and KPIs to identify emerging risks and control weaknesses
- Provide analytical input and recommendations to enhance metric design, including leading indicators, thresholds, and signal quality, and relevance
- Develop executive level insights and narratives for risk committees and senior leadership
- Partner with Cybersecurity (GCS) and Technology teams to improve interpretation of metric results
- Support thematic reviews and challenge metrics that do not provide meaningful risk insight
- Contribute to the evolution of the technology risk metrics framework and reporting approach
- Analyze breach trends and systemic risk patterns to inform leadership decisions.
Qualifications:
- Education: Bachelor’s degree holders with relevant work experience are welcome to apply
- 5–7 years’ experience in analytics, risk management, cybersecurity, or technology governance
- Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex data sets and identifying trends, patterns, and emerging risks
- Hybrid Work Arrangement: Amenability and readiness to work onsite and from home anytime (dependent on business need AND/OR current external environment/situation)
- Shift Schedule: Amenability to work on mid shift or night shift (dependent on business need)
- Proven ability to translate technical data into clear, business focused insights
- Strong understanding of risk metrics (KRIs, KCIs, KPIs), including leading and lagging indicators, with demonstrated ability to challenge and enhance metric design, thresholds, and overall signal quality to improve effectiveness
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Experience in supporting executive or committee-level reporting, including development of narratives and decision-focused insights is an asset
- Minimum Skills to Hire/Must Haves:
- Should have advanced knowledge on Microsoft Excel (Power Query & VBA Macro)
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge on Microsoft PowerPoint and Business Intelligence Tools such as Python, R for data querying, PowerBI, QlikView, Qlik Sense, Tableau, or any other similar tool.
- Should have hands-on experience in data analysis, data manipulation, and ETL processes skills such as collecting, transforming, and compiling raw data and generating useful reports from raw information.
- Should have demonstrated data storytelling, data visualization, and data governance skills to create compelling reports with dashboard elements like tables, charts, graphs, heat maps, and data models.
- Should have an extensive familiarity with data management concepts such as data warehousing, data mining and extraction, and predictive analytics and business reporting principles and best practices.
- Should have analytical skills to rigorously and effectively examine large quantities of data and derive useful insights from these data sets.
- Should provide mentorship to team members on best practices in reporting and dashboard development, while also leading team initiatives and strategic projects.
When you join our team:
• We’ll empower you to learn and grow the career you want.
• We’ll recognize and support you in a flexible environment where well-being and inclusion are more than just words.
• As part of our global team, we’ll support you in shaping the future you want to see.
About Manulife and John Hancock
Manulife Financial Corporation is a leading international financial services provider, helping people make their decisions easier and lives better. To learn more about us, visit https://www.manulife.com/en/about/our-story.html.
Manulife is an Equal Opportunity Employer
At Manulife/John Hancock, we embrace our diversity. We strive to attract, develop and retain a workforce that is as diverse as the customers we serve and to foster an inclusive work environment that embraces the strength of cultures and individuals. We are committed to fair recruitment, retention, advancement and compensation, and we administer all of our practices and programs without discrimination on the basis of race, ancestry, place of origin, colour, ethnic origin, citizenship, religion or religious beliefs, creed, sex (including pregnancy and pregnancy-related conditions), sexual orientation, genetic characteristics, veteran status, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital status, family status, disability, or any other ground protected by applicable law.
It is our priority to remove barriers to provide equal access to employment. A Human Resources representative will work with applicants who request a reasonable accommodation during the application process. All information shared during the accommodation request process will be stored and used in a manner that is consistent with applicable laws and Manulife/John Hancock policies. To request a reasonable accommodation in the application process, contact [email protected].
Working Arrangement
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent relevant work experience
- 5-7 years of experience in analytics, risk management, cybersecurity, or technology governance
- Advanced Microsoft Excel, including Power Query and VBA Macros
- Intermediate to advanced Microsoft PowerPoint skills
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of business intelligence tools such as Python, R, Power BI, QlikView, Qlik Sense, or Tableau
- Hands-on experience in data analysis, data manipulation, and ETL processes
- Data storytelling, data visualization, and data governance skills
- Familiarity with data warehousing, data mining, data extraction, predictive analytics, and business reporting principles
- Strong analytical skills for examining large datasets and identifying trends, patterns, and emerging risks
- Ability to translate technical data into clear, business-focused insights
- Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills
- Amenability to work hybrid, including onsite and from home as needed
- Amenability to work mid or night shifts as needed
- Experience supporting executive or committee-level reporting and decision-focused narratives
Manulife Compensation & Benefits Highlights
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is portrayed as comprehensive, spanning medical, dental, prescription drugs, vision, critical illness, and short- and long-term disability. Mental-health support is emphasized via EAP-style services and high annual coverage limits in some regions, alongside wellness programs and navigation tools.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as a meaningful part of total rewards, including group RRSP/defined contribution pension options and employer matching in some cases. Ownership-related programs such as share purchase/stock options are also described as available for eligible employees.
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Flexible Benefits — Benefits are described as robust and flexible, with customizable packages and spending-account style options in some plans. Digital tools (mobile app/claims) and reward-linked wellness programs are framed as making benefits easier to use and more engaging.
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What We Do
Manulife is a leading international financial services group that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better. With our global headquarters in Toronto, we operate as Manulife across our offices in Canada, Asia, and Europe, and primarily as John Hancock in the United States. We have more than 40,000 employees, over 116,000 agents serving ~34 million customers worldwide, and over $1.3 trillion in assets under management and administration. Visit www.Manulife.com to find out more. For Manulife terms of use, please visit http://bit.ly/SM_Terms








