General Description:

Reporting to the Manager, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis, the Financial Analyst will support our FP&A team and senior leaders across the business. This position will help the FP&A team and organization operate more effectively by leveraging systems to provide data and information that allows leaders to keep a pulse on their business. This is a highly visible role that requires development of partnership relationships with business leaders, requires an individual who takes initiative and works well both independently and with a team. As well, the successful candidate will need to be adaptable, be eager to learn and grow, and be a strong communicator.

How Will I Make an Impact?

Financial Analysis

• Support of administration of company reporting system (Adaptive Insights). This includes continually leveraging the system to improve efficiencies
• Actively seek opportunities to improve and streamline processes
• Support monthly analysis and reporting of consolidated results against budget and forecast
• Support regular monthly financial reporting process including month end accounting functions (accruals & variance analysis), re-forecasting functions (prepaid commitments, headcount reporting) and providing financial reporting to the FP&A team
• Support in preparing monthly SLT reporting and updating related dashboard metrics
• Support in preparing of presentations for Board of Directors
• Support in maintaining budget trackers, purchase orders, prepaid commitments and year-to-date spending against budget and forecast
• Close synergy with procurement and accounts payable team to ensure procure to pay processes and systems optimized to FP&A needs
• Assist with various special projects for stakeholders as required

Business Partnership

• Assist business units with management and optimization of budget
• Assist business units ensuring budget informed decisions are made including ROI analysis
• Responsible for preparation of reporting packages to key stakeholders. This will include a thorough financial analysis with recommendations for any material variances
• Assist in determining if items are in budget to facilitate purchase requests and other ad hoc questions about budget.
• Support role on strategic initiatives championed by Senior Finance Business partners
• Communicate financial information in a way that is easily understood by non-financial people in one-on-one situations, small groups, via email and phone
• Actively engages with colleagues to further understanding of financial reports and systems
• Participate as a subject matter expert in special projects and take ownership of ad hoc analysis as required
• Actively seek opportunities to improve and streamline processes
• Cooperates and collaborates with colleagues as appropriate; works in partnership with others; delivers on commitments to the team/organization

What you’ll bring to the role:

• 2+ years’ experience in a Financial Analysis capacity
• Proven experience in communication of results and collaboration with a variety of stakeholders
• Project and teamwork – ideally in an international, hybrid and dynamic environment
• Self-starter
• Ability to perform requested tasks autonomously
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, communication and organizational skills
• Interest in process improvement and ability to demonstrate innovative thinking
• Ability to quickly learn and embrace new technologies/process improvements
• Attention to detail and commitment to see projects through to the end
• Advanced Microsoft Excel computing skills, including advanced knowledge of Pivot Tables and Lookup functions
• Experience with Netsuite, Salesforce, Adaptive Insights and PowerBI are considered an asset
• Experience with IFRS is considered an asset

Educational Requirements:

• Bachelor of Commerce / Bachelor of Business Administration degree, preferably with emphasis in Accounting/Finance.
• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or working towards a CPA designation is an asset