Geospatial Data Analyst

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Victorian Managed Insurance Authority

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Insurance and Superannuation

Reference: VG/1652892

Our Data Science and Analytics team is growing, and we are looking for a dynamic and proactive Geospatial Data Analyst to play a key role in supporting VMIA to leverage data as an asset to ensure it can be used to inform key decisions and deliver valuable outcomes to clients. This role reports to the Manager, Data Science & Analytics and sits within Data Science & Analytics team.

**Geospatial Data Analyst, Insurance Services,**

**Full-Time, Ongoing.**

**About VMIA**

Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (VMIA) is the Victorian Government's insurer and risk adviser, covering the people and projects that help Victorians thrive. We're an agency in the Department of Treasury and Finance portfolio established under the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority Act, and report to the Assistant Treasurer.

We provide insurance and risk advice to government departments and agencies, with more than 4,600 clients ranging from small community service organisations to public hospitals, schools, and core service providers. We also provide domestic building insurance to builders, giving Victorian homeowners peace of mind for building projects valued over $16,000.

We help our clients prepare for, prevent, or reduce the impact of harm. When things don't go to plan, we help clients restore services and recover quickly.

Our unique perspective across Victorian Government clients provides an opportunity for learning and development across the risk and insurance industry as well as the broader public sector, creating deeper connections with our clients, and a shared understanding of best practice in our fields of expertise.

**Your role**

Our Data Science and Analytics team is growing, and we are looking for a dynamic and proactive Geospatial Data Analyst to play a key role in supporting VMIA to leverage data as an asset to ensure it can be used to inform key decisions and deliver valuable outcomes to clients.

This role reports to the Manager, Data Science & Analytics and sits within Data Science & Analytics team.

**How you'll make an impact**:

- Analyse geospatial data to identify meaningful insights and communicate these to internal staff and to clients.
- Identify and lead activities around management and continuous enhancement of VMIA's geospatial data and systems.
- Proactively identify ways for VMIA to better understand risks to insured assets and the drivers of claims using geospatial analysis.
- Work with data engineers to perform data consolidation, standardisation, and cleansing activities to ensure the integrity and consistency of VMIA's analytical datasets.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance data visualisation dashboards using Tableau.
- Use SQL/SAS/Python to wrangle data into a form suitable for analysis and reporting
- Undertake analytical modelling, draw insights from the results, and use this to provide advice to clients and internal stakeholders to drive high quality decision making, strategy development, process improvement and risk reduction initiative.

**Who you work with**

**Internal**:

- You'll work within theData Science & Analytics Team to identify opportunities to deliver business improvement and insights using geospatial analysis, and to deliver these to VMIA and clients.
- You'll work with a diverse Insights and Analytics Team including data analysts, data scientists, data engineers, and business analysts to deliver meaningful insights to VMIA.
- Work collegiately with the Insurance and Risk Divisions to deliver on key programs and activities by providing insights, reporting and relevant data.
- You'll liaise with the communications team, providing data for annual reports and to ensure products and extracts are in line with VMIA branding and style guidelines.

**External**:

- You'll act as the key contact to relevant System Vendors to ensure VMIA maximise the functionality and effectiveness of the geospatial systems in alignment with the team strategy and priority.
- Collaborate with relevant Government Department and Agencies on assets data that can be used to improve the quality and capture of relevant State-wide data.
- Provide assistance and advice to VMIA clients in SME area (insured assets data).
- You'll provide and present data and visual presentations to reinsurers, responding to enquiries in relation to insured assets data.

**About you**
- You have demonstrated experience within a similar role with advanced knowledge of geospatial systems (experience with Esri ArcGIS preferred) and a sound understanding of geospatial data.
- Knowledge and experience working with at least one programming language (Python is preferred) and have used this to analyse and transform data as well as implement geospatial solutions.
- Prior experience with SQL to run data queries. Cloud experience (particularly