Financial Planning and Analysis Manager
SGS
- Mississauga, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Communication and coordination of Forecast and Budget requirements to the Finance community
- Work with operations and business controllers in developing, deployment, training, maintaining, and improving financial KPIs/metrics and tools.
- Support, maintenance, and assurance of financial data accuracy for all tools deployed by the Finance team.
- Constant review and development of process/tools improvement to promote enhancement and efficiencies in Finance.
- Assist and timely delivery of the closing and other finance requirements.
- Regular review and communication of KPIs/metrics to operations and business controllers
- Participation on several special projects of the FP&A and BI team
- Liaise with other SGS affiliates as needed.
- Responsible for the management of multiple projects of varying size and scope including Finance M&A activities.
- Serves as a Key communicator for project deployment both internally to project stakeholders and to field.
- Coordinates internal resources and third parties for the flawless execution of projects.
- Ensures that all projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget.
- Assists in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
- Ensures resource availability and allocation.
- Develops a detailed project plan to monitor and track progress of the various financial projects.
- Manages changes to the project scope, project schedule and project costs.
- Measures project performance.
- Responsible for early risk detection and mitigation, escalating issues when necessary to avoid impact to project commitments and to minimize any project risks.
- Successfully manages the relationship of the project and all stakeholders.
- Creates and maintains comprehensive project documentation.
- Adheres to internal standards, policies, and procedures.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
- Bachelor's Degree in Accounting/Finance required
- 7+ years of relevant Finance and Accounting experience required.
- Financial Project Management experience required.
- Master's Degree in Accounting in combination with experience listed above required.
- Ability to manage and coordinate multiple projects in a fast[1]paced, highly professional environment.
- Strong business acumen/business awareness with solid technical
- and analytical background
- Strong attention to detailStrong organizational and inter[1]personal skills.
- Excellent professional written and verbal communication
- Leadership and coaching skills
- Ability to prioritize multiple responsibilities and deadlines.
- Ability to draw conclusions and make recommendations to
- different levels of management
- Ability to lead through influence.
- Ability to participate in and facilitate group meetings.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and highly demanding environment.