
Financial Analyst, FP&A
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Act as a Business Partner liaising between Finance and departments across the sales and marketing organization to assist in business decisions while also explaining “the story behind the numbers”
- Develop and build financial models to support the annual budget and monthly/quarterly forecast through partnering with the business to develop and agree on the key assumptions underlying the financial models
- Analyze and report actual results compared to budget and forecast estimates, preparing appropriate variance explanations, bridge analyses and key financial metrics as part of the month-end and quarter-end packages
- Prepare and present in-depth monthly and quarterly variance analysis on actual performance versus budget and forecast
- Work closely with Accounting and business partners to prepare monthly accruals and month-end variance analysis
- Provide financial expertise in the development of business cases to support new initiatives and/or enhancements to current processes
- Create ad-hoc analysis to address concerns or answers queries generated by management
- Perform other job duties as assigned
- 3-5 years of progressive Finance experience in an financial planning and analysis / accounting role
- Professionally designated as a CPA, or another equivalent financial designation or actively working towards it
- Bachelor's degree (ideally in an accounting or finance-related field) or equivalent experience.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, strong attention to detail
- Demonstrated oral and written communication skills, creating dynamic presentations and ability to work cross-functionally
- Experience partnering with management to share business insights and support them in understanding their business
- Advanced excel skills / Google Sheets skills, including the use of complex formulas and pivot tables to simplify data, and experience building excel templates and models
- Can build positive relationships, and demonstrates commitment, effort and a go-getter attitude
- Exhibit great learning agility and the ability to work effectively under tight and conflicting deadlines.