VersaBank is an inclusive, entrepreneurial, Schedule 1 Chartered Bank with over $4.3 billion in assets and growing. As Canadas most innovative bank, VersaBank operates as a branchless financial institution that obtains its deposits and provides most of its loans and leases electronically, with innovative deposit and lending solutions for financial intermediaries that allowthem to excel in their core businesses.

VersaBanks Common Shares trade on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and Nasdaq under the symbol VBNK. Our head office is in London, Ontario, with various offices located across Canada. For more information on VersaBank, please visit our website at www.versabank.com.

We are looking for a Data Analyst to join our IT team. This role is located in London, Ontario and will work out of our VersaBank Innovation Centre of Excellence (VICE) office.

As a Data Analyst, you will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining reporting solutions. You will derive valuable insights and be instrumental in enabling effective performance monitoring and decision making for VersaBank and the leadership team. You will also focus on improving efficiency, accelerating existing processes through automation, and fostering a data-driven culture across the Bank.

Leveraging your analytical experience, you will build and maintain datasets, reports, and dashboards that bridge the gap between financial business requirements and technical implementations.

Primary Responsibilities include:

• Design, develop, and maintain data visualizations, interactive dashboards and paginated
  reports allowing users to see key insights within the data.
• Interpret data and identify relevant analyses as well as use-cases.
• Support business users with self-service reporting needs and reports, providing training
  when necessary.
• Ensure data accuracy, integrity, and security by playing an active role in data governance
  through mapping, cataloging, and classifying data assets.
• Participate in data warehouse design by suggesting schema changes and additions to
  support business requirements.
• Assess and compare various reporting technologies by creating prototype solutions to
  analyze their functionality, effectiveness, and suitability.
• Conduct query profiling, optimization, and execute ad-hoc queries as needed.
• Work closely with stakeholders across the business to understand reporting and analysis
  requirements.
• Keep up to date with current industry trends and emerging tools and technologies.
  

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in business administration, Statistics, Computer Science, or related
  field.
• 1-2 years experience with relational databases, creating scripts as well as developing
  reporting using Power BI (preferred), Tableau, Qlik, or similar analytics platform
  required.
• Knowledge and experience using data warehouse concepts and principles including star
  schema design.
• Strong SQL skills and a solid understanding of query optimization and profiling tools and
  techniques.
• Experience with cloud-hosted data platforms such as Azure Synapse Analytics /
  Microsoft Fabric (preferred), Amazon Redshift, or Snowflake an asset.
• Familiar with multi-dimensional structures, modelling, design and technologies.
• Understanding of data governance tools (e.g., Microsoft Purview).
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with an ability to clearly presents findings
  and recommendations to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Excellent analytical, trouble-shooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a self-starter who is highly organized, and able to
  prioritize effectively.
• Prior experience working in the banking or financial industry would be an asset.

We offer excellent career advancement opportunities, an informal, positive work environment, and a very competitive compensation package that includes base salary, an outstanding benefit package, tuition refund program, pension supplement, fitness club membership and participation in an attractive incentive award program.

Application Procedure:

If working for a non-traditional bank with an entrepreneurial flair appeals to you, we encourage you to apply. We thank you for taking the time to apply. Please be advised that only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.