Consultant, Data, Analytics & AI

Putting people first, every day   BDO is a firm built on a foundation of positive relationships with our people and our clients. Each day, our professionals provide exceptional service, helping clients with advice and insight they can trust. In turn, we offer an award-winning environment that fosters a  people-first culture  with a high priority on your personal and professional growth. Your Opportunity Our Toronto office is looking for a Consultant to join its Strategy, Value Creation & Analytics practice within Financial Advisory Services. This role sits at the intersection of business, data, analytics and artificial intelligence. The successful candidate will combine strong technical capabilities with business acumen and client facing skills to help organizations solve complex problems, improve decision making and adopt modern data and AI enabled ways of working. This is a new role. The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, technically strong and comfortable learning and applying new technologies. Using modern AI tools effectively is an expected part of day to day work. The candidate should be able to use AI to improve research, analysis, coding, problem solving, documentation and solution development, while applying professional judgment and validating outputs.  As part of the team, you will support client and stakeholder needs while helping organizations advance their data, analytics and AI capabilities. You will translate complex business and financial requirements into practical technical solutions and communicate technical concepts in a way that is accessible to business stakeholders.  Responsibilities  •  Work with clients and internal stakeholders to understand business problems, define analytical requirements and translate them into practical data, analytics and AI solutions.  •  Apply business analytics to research, analyze and interpret complex information, identify meaningful patterns and develop actionable insights and strategic recommendations.  •  Identify opportunities where AI, automation or advanced analytics can improve existing business processes, analytical workflows or client solutions.  •  Design, prototype and implement AI enabled solutions and workflows where appropriate, including solutions using large language models, APIs, structured prompting, retrieval based approaches, workflow automation and other emerging AI technologies.  •  Develop analytics applications, reporting solutions and decision support tools using Power BI, Tableau and other visualization or analytics technologies.  •  Work hands on with data using SQL, Python, Power Query, Excel and related technologies to extract, transform, integrate, analyze and validate structured and unstructured data.  •  Design, build and maintain scalable data transformation and ETL processes that support analytics, reporting, AI applications and business decision making.  •  Apply statistical analysis, machine learning and other analytical techniques where appropriate, and translate technical outputs into practical business insights and usable tools.  •  Develop KPIs, metrics, analytical frameworks and data models that enable organizations to monitor performance and make more informed decisions.  •  Assess data quality, identify gaps or inconsistencies and apply appropriate validation and quality control procedures before information is used for analytical or AI driven decision making.  •  Collaborate with clients to define project requirements through interviews, workshops, research and data analysis, and contribute to project plans, timelines and implementation approaches.  •  Work closely with technical and non-technical stakeholders, clients, and other teams to support the successful implementation and adoption of data and AI solutions.  •  Communicate analytical findings and technical concepts clearly through presentations, reports, dashboards and other client ready deliverables.