Job Description

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We are looking for an Analyst, Strategy

Great-West Lifeco is a global financial services holding company with interests in life insurance, health insurance, retirement and investment services, asset management and reinsurance businesses. We operate in Canada, the United States and Europe under the brands Canada Life, Empower, Putnam Investments, and Irish Life. At the end of 2021, our companies had approximately 28,000 employees, 215,000 advisor relationships, and thousands of distribution partners – all serving our more than 33 million customer relationships across these regions. Great-West Lifeco and its companies have approximately $2.3 trillion in consolidated assets under administration (as at Dec 31, 2021) and are members of the Power Financial Corporation group of companies.

The Great-West Lifeco (“Lifeco”) Strategy team is critical to Lifeco’s ability to navigate and succeed in an increasingly dynamic and complex environment, which includes changing customer behaviours and distribution trends, technology advancements and adoption, and the shifting global economy. The Strategy team supports Lifeco and its businesses across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, driving corporate and business unit strategy development, supporting strategic initiatives across Lifeco and selected business unit priorities, and managing the Lifeco Board’s annual long-term strategy review and planning process.

Reporting to the Vice President, Strategy, the Analyst will work with other members of the Strategy team as well as teams across Lifeco and its business units providing business and financial analysis, research, and presentation development support to answer key strategic questions faced by the company.

What you will do

• Provide analytic support for various strategic initiatives and projects across Lifeco, including the following:
  
  • Conduct financial analysis, including developing financial models to understand the profitability and value creation of a company, a line of business, or a market/ industry
  • Develop market overviews, gathering industry and competitor information from relevant associations, publications, research reports
  • Assess customer and advisor data to understand market size, trends, and segmentation
  • Build company profiles based on financial and analyst reports, company websites, industry groups, research reports, literature searches
  • Interview and collaborate with internal employees to collect information/ perspectives on a line of business, market threats, industry trends and other relevant strategic issues
• Provide presentation and decision-making support:
  • Develop PowerPoint presentation materials
  • Participate in a broad range of Strategy and business team meetings to gather information, share insights, and present findings and recommendations
• Ensure a high level of quality in all presentations and supporting analyses, while working in a dynamic environment, potentially across multiple time zones
• Manage project workstream with minimal guidance
• Act as a team player within the strategy group, providing support to other team members when required

• An undergraduate degree (preferably in business, finance, or actuarial science)
• Minimum of two or more years relevant work experience (international experience a benefit), preferably with a management consulting firm, corporate strategy team, or a corporate finance, business process management or analytics group at a large financial services organization
• Proven analytical and problem-solving skills, with particular emphasis on financial and strategic analysis, demonstrated through work experience
• Exceptional financial modeling and analysis skills using Excel
• Proficient written and verbal presentation skills – including use of PowerPoint
• Well-developed business judgment, poise, and maturity – willing to professionally ask the tough questions to “progress the thinking”
• Work well in an open and collaborative environment without rigidly defined boundaries of “who does what”
• High motivational level and open to learning different areas of the business