Analytics Lead

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As a LIFE company, our customers are at the heart of all that we do. Being one of Asia’s leading insurer for over a century, we have built a long-lasting legacy of trust with our customers over many generations. At the foundation of this trust is Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement – from the way we treat every customer relationship with honesty and transparency, to our proactive approach of delivering the best possible solutions in both life and general insurance.

Integrity, Initiative, and Involvement is what guides us. It is what makes us do the right thing, take the lead, and choose ‘we’ over ‘me’. Our mission is to make life great for our customers because we understand what matters most to them, and we know how to help them protect it.

If you are looking to grow in an exciting career that empowers you to shape the company’s overall business strategy and develop strategic plans to achieve the organisation’s business objectives, we are seeking an experienced professional to join our team as Analytics Lead.

Job Purpose

You are responsible and accountable to lead and build the Data Science, Data Engineering and Data Management & Governance team. You will lead the data and analytics strategy for the organization through partnership with the senior management team, business leaders and the technology department.

The Role:

• Lead the team in designing business requirements to develop a centralized repository to store, organize, and preserve consolidated views on policy, customer, claims, funds, transactions etc. from various Great Eastern systems as well as to propose visual analytics/ dashboard for new users.
• Perform oversight in gathering of business rules from business SMEs to standardize the attributes in the centralized repository to enable accurate retrieval and use of information for campaigns and analytics.
• Propose advanced analytics use cases for respective business units/stakeholders to meet their business objectives.
• Analyse business requirements to optimize the delivery of interactive and dynamic data visualization solutions to more business stakeholders in the company.
• Lead the team in engaging reinsurers or external consultants / vendors for proof of concept (POC) initiatives with regards to data and business analytics.
• Continuously explore other data visualization techniques relevant to the organization.
• Drive an enterprise-wide Data Governance strategy, operationalize the data management policies, procedures and standards.
• Facilitate sharing and adoption of data governance best practices and raise data literacy across the organisation.
• Guide users through data governance concepts, explaining the benefits of data governance policies and procedures within the context of the user's needs.
• As part of the leadership team, work with key stakeholders to proactively shape the organisation’s culture and conduct environment that is aligned to the organization’s Core Values
• Champion culture and conduct behavioral expectations within the Department/ Division
• Takes accountability in considering business and regulatory compliance risks and takes appropriate steps to mitigate the risks.
• Maintain awareness of industry trends on regulatory compliance, emerging threats and technologies in order to understand the risk and better safeguard the company
• Highlight any potential concerns /risks and proactively shares best risk management practice.
• Other responsibilities entailed

The Person:

• Bachelor’s degree from a recognised tertiary institution with at least 12 years of work experience where at least 5 years of hands-on experience in data engineering, data governance, data management, data architecture, analytics etc
• Demonstrate aptitude in data engineering, data science, data management and governance activities and best practices.
• Familiarity with big data platforms, data lakes, business information and analytics systems and landscape
• Strong influencing skills at a senior level and across the organisation, with the ability to credibly engage in order to frame, sell, influence and negotiate.
• Excellent interpersonal, communication and presentation skills to communicate and manage different levels of stakeholders across the organisation and navigate through conflicts and differences competently and with ease;
• Ability to identify, challenge and consider opportunities outside of conventional thinking to resolve problems and address gaps to improve the current state & embrace new changes;
• Demonstrates alignment with the organisation’s core values through expected behaviours
• High level of integrity, takes accountability of work and good attitude over teamwork
• Takes initiative to improve current state of things and adaptable to embrace new changes

Great Eastern Malaysia is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity, and all qualified applicants shall receive a fair and equal consideration for employment.

Location: HQ, Kuala Lumpur

Entity: Great Eastern Life Malaysia

Employment Type: Permanent

About Great Eastern

Established in 1908, Great Eastern places customers at the heart of everything we do. Our legacy extends beyond our products and services to our culture, which is defined by our core values and how we work. As champions of Integrity, Initiative and Involvement, our core values act as a compass, guiding and inspiring us to embrace the behaviours associated with each value, upholding our promise to our customers - to continue doing our best for them in a sustainable manner.

We work collaboratively with our stakeholders to look for candidates who exhibit or have the potential to embrace our core values and associated behaviours, as these are the key traits that we expect from our employees as they develop their careers with us.

We embrace inclusivity, giving all employees an equal opportunity to shine and play their role in exploring possibilities to deliver innovative insurance solutions.

Since 2018, Great Eastern has been a signatory to the United Nations (UN) Principles of Sustainable Insurance. Our sustainability approach around environmental, social, and governance (ESG) considerations play a key role in every business decision we make. We are committed to being a sustainability-driven company to achieve a low-carbon economy by managing the environmental footprint of our operations and incorporating ESG considerations in our investment portfolios; improving people’s lives by actively helping customers live healthier, better and longer; and drive responsible business practices through material ESG risk management.

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