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Moving people forward at Equifax Canada
I
f you ask Tamer Rezk
how someone trained as
a pharmacist ended up
working for one of the
world’s biggest consumer
credit agencies, he’ll tell you
sometimes career opportunities
can come from following your
passion. Rezk, a senior human
resources business partner,
changed his career from
pharmacist to HR years ago. While
working at a software company
and on the verge of starting a
new role, a former manager told
him about a great opportunity at
Equifax Canada.
One of our core mandates is to make sure
that we’re helping
Canadians live their
financial best.
— Erin Bennett
Vice-President, Consumer
Products
“It just looked like the right
place to contribute and grow my
career,” he says, adding that he
was drawn to the opportunity to
apply his experience and skills
within a leading organization in
the data and analytics space and
make a meaningful impact for
Canadians.
Erin Bennett, vice-president of
consumer products at Equifax,
agrees that the company is eager
to have people like Rezk as they’re
constantly innovating in ways to
help customers and consumers
build sound financial foundations
Equifax Canada looks for employees who are innovative and seek new ways to help customers build a solid
financial foundation for their lives.
for their lives.
“One of our core mandates is
to make sure that we’re helping
Canadians live their financial
best. Especially in these volatile
times, we want to make sure we’re
helping Canadians navigate their
lives,” she says.
“We do this through the products and services we’re delivering
to our clients that give insights
around their credit information
and their financial positions. We
want to make sure we include
as many Canadians as we can in
that, so we’re really focused on
financial inclusion, ensuring that
we’re able to help our customers
get to smarter decisions faster.”
Rezk says that the key to
innovating and getting Equifax’s
services to the broadest number
of Canadians begins with the company’s international reach and its
focus on employee diversity.
“If you ask anyone at Equifax,
they will tell you we are proud
of our sense of community and
collaboration,” he says. “We have
global networks and groups that
bring people together to foster a
sense of belonging, curiosity and
innovation.”
Bennett says financial inclusion
is key to the company’s push to
provide credit services for new
Canadians, young people and
lower-income clients.
“For example, we just launched
our Global Consumer Credit
Report, which allows new-to-Canada individuals to bring credit
