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New Graduate Program | Data Science Associate, Finance New Graduate Program (DSA) - 2027 Start

Office Location: Calgary

Onsite Requirement: Four days on-site per week, one day from home

Our Commitment to Students

At Canadian Tire, we are committed to providing students with a supportive and collaborative environment that fosters knowledge sharing and offers key experiences to help them develop their capabilities through projects and objectives. We believe in setting specific and measurable goals that align with our business objectives to support learning and help students achieve their full potential. Our culture emphasizes learning from others, continuous improvement, agility, growth, and innovation, and we are invested in building a talented, diverse workforce for the future of Canada and Canadian Tire. Additionally, we are dedicated to building strong relationships with our student employees by engaging with them throughout their education and career pursuits and creating opportunities for ongoing communication and relationship building.

What You'll Do:

Canadian Tire's Data Science Associate Rotational Program will provide you with an opportunity to develop broad analytical expertise, work cross-functionally with internal and external teams and be a key member of our data analytics team within Finance Decision Support. This development program is designed to be a strong foundation for a successful analytics career within Finance and other analytics teams across CTC, helping us to continue to build an innovative, world-class Canadian Tire Retail team. The program consists of two progressive 12-month rotations in Decision Support teams that work with Merchandising and Finance in domains such as retail analytics, business intelligence and data engineering.

The associate will perform a variety of activities over the two rotations, which may include:

• Business Decision Support: Provide subject-matter expertise, analytics, and insights to recommend actions that will enable optimal business decisions and/or resolve complex business problems. Identify opportunities to drive business growth and value.

• Business Intelligence and Visualization: Design and develop complex reports, dashboards, visualizations and scorecards to support business needs and self-serve capabilities.

• Data Management and Data Analytics: Analyze approaches, processes, and tools to support the business data strategy. Provide subject matter expertise and create a broad range of data-driven solutions by applying a variety of data science techniques to build out complex models.

• Finance Transformation: Partner with Finance teams on ongoing transformation projects which involve modernizing data processes and reporting along with participating in the design of new financial models.

• AI Development: Integrate AI into business processes and develop intelligent agents that automate workflows, surface insights, and communicate actionable recommendations, with appropriate testing, validation, and oversight to ensure trustworthy outcomes.

Who You'll Bring:

We are looking for students with an expected graduation of December 2026 or Spring 2027 who are:

• You are working towards an undergraduate degree in a quantitative or technical discipline such as Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Quantitative Analysis, Statistics, Data Analytics, Business Analytics, Financial Analytics or a related field.

• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of these areas: BI development, data modelling, data engineering, business analytics, AI development, process automation.

• Excellent verbal and written communication with the ability to collaborate effectively in a team environment.

• Possess technical knowledge and hands-on experience with SQL, BI tools (such as Power BI or Tableau), Python or other coding languages, and AI platforms/tools.

• Nice-to-haves include familiarity with Spark, Azure Cloud Tools, Databricks, Microsoft's Power Platform, Copilot Studio.

• Project, academic, or work experience in finance, retail, or business is considered an asset.

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment.

• Action-oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business.

• Critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business.

• Collaborative team players with superior communication and influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups.

• If you're curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly - we are looking for you.

We're always looking for great talent! In addition to competitive pay, we offer:

• Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs

• Performance incentives, Continuing Education Programs

• Other perks to support your well-being

• Career growth opportunities and product discounts

Broadband Salary Range:$53,000 - $88,000.
Ourtypical hiring range is between $53,000 and $70,000. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, industry benchmarks, internal equity and other role-specific requirements. For critical roles, the compensation offering will be reviewed to ensure alignment with market rate and conditions and the unique value you bring to the role.

**MANDATORY: Please ensure you attach your unofficial transcript with your application. This is a requirement for your application to be considered**

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We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies.With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.