About Borrowell:

Borrowell is a Canadian company dedicated to making financial stability possible for everyone. The first to offer free credit scores, Borrowell provides educational resources, monitoring, innovative digital tools and personalized product recommendations to help people feel in control and optimistic about their financial future. In previous data, members using Borrowell reported up to 100 points increased to their credit score after 1 year with select Borrowell products.

With 2 million members and $102 million in funding since 2017, Borrowell is one of the largest fintech companies in Canada. Borrowell has won numerous awards, including being named one of Globe and Mail’s Top Growing Companies, LinkedIn’s Top Startups in Canada, CB Insights’ Top 250 Fintechs, and Best Workplaces in Financial Services & Insurance.

Borrowell places a high value on building a diverse and inclusive workplace and is proud to have a gender-balanced team. Borrowell was named one of the Top 50 Best Workplaces in Canada, as well as one of the Best Workplaces for Women, and Mental Wellness.

About this role:

As a Data Analyst you will be a key member of Borrowell’s Data Analytics Team. Your role will be pivotal in informing new marketing and product initiatives and powering the recommendations we personalize to each of our 2+ million members.

You will provide a window into business performance and help to make recommendations on what we build next. You will be responsible for creating and managing insights, experimentation, forecasting and reporting for various business partners at Borrowell. You’ll monitor existing key performance indicators and explore new areas of data to drive business growth and product improvement.

You will make company data accessible, insightful and actionable to the different business divisions. Work collaboratively with our business development, customer engagement, and product management teams to drive continued improvement and help them fully utilize our data in their decisions.

Experience

• Working experience with business reporting, forecasting and providing insights to business decisions through data
• Demonstrated proficiency of SQL (INNER and OUTER joins, WHERE, GROUP BY clauses, and aggregate functions, subqueries)
• Experience building, analyzing and validating statistical experiments
• Proficiency with analytic tools such as Looker, Tableau, or similar

Nice to Have

• Undergraduate (or higher) degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Science, Eng, or Social Sciences).
• Basic knowledge of Python (numpy, pandas, statsmodels, matplotlib, seaborn) or R (tidyverse: dplyr, data.table, ggplot2...etc.)
• Experience interpreting data to make business decisions

Important Qualities

• Desire to continuously learn how to implement the latest technologies and analytical tools into our tech stack
• A passion to improve the financial lives of Canadians through innovative use of technology and data-driven systems
• Willingness to mentor others and embrace feedback
• Open and transparent communication
• Ambition to continuously improve self

• The Opportunity - join and have a major impact at a growing company that is helping make financial stability possible for everybody
• Comprehensive Health Benefits - medical, dental, vision, and paramedical health benefits for you and your family, with extra yearly coverage for psychotherapists and massage therapists
• Additional Health Benefits - virtual benefit offering that allows you to connect 24/7 with nurses, doctors and mental health professionals
• Maternity & Parental Leave Top-up - available to new parents
• Wellness Benefit - $600 annually to spend on whatever brings you joy
• WFH Reimbursement - we ship you gear like a laptop, mouse, keyboard, and you can reimburse additional items to make your workplace better for you
• Employee Development Benefit - annual reimbursements on payments to help your learning
• Givewell Benefit - 1 paid volunteer day a year to give back to the community
• Flexibility - flexible working hours and a flexible vacation policy

We are remote-first across Canada, meaning you have no mandatory obligation to come in-office unless you choose to do so - you decide what is best for you. Our offices are located in Toronto, Kelowna, and Montreal, with teams distributed primarily in Ontario and BC.

At Borrowell, one of our core values and firm beliefs is that diversity makes us better. If you’re unsure about your qualifications for this position, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’re looking for candidates who have experience, but know that not everyone’s had a chance to demonstrate what they can do. What’s most important is that you have a growth mindset and care about helping people with their finances - an area in their lives that causes a lot of stress.

Please note that due to the sensitive nature of the work we do, clearing a credit and criminal record check is a condition of employment.

Borrowell encourages applications from candidates with differing abilities. Please let us know if you require accommodation at any stage in the selection process.