Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A (mat leave contract)

JOB SUMMARY

The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for collecting, analyzing, forecasting and reporting accurate financial information to enable effective evaluation of business performance and decision-making in the areas of P&L, acting as a liaison between functional areas and the Finance department. To this end, the Senior Financial Analyst has additional responsibilities related to analytics and data mining.

JOB DETAILS

Planning:

• • Take responsibility for financial planning, analysis forecasting and reporting based on company performance, market conditions, competitive activities and growth opportunities
  • Provide financial support in analysis, recommendation and implementation of solutions and improvements
  • Ensure that process is continuously improved in terms of efficiency, transparency and overall effectiveness in driving better business decisions
  • Assist in preparing Annual Operating Plan, including leading overall process and timelines
  • Participate in developing subscriber metric targets
  • Provide departments with guidelines and assumptions to develop budgets
  • Consolidate all information into financial system in accordance with established procedures
  • Analyze results against budget and forecasts and prepare variance analysis forecasts for respective departments
  • Assist in building detailed planning templates and strategic plans
  • Assist in developing reforecasts and strategic plans at corporate level based on actual and future projections
  • Assist in overall monthly forecast at beginning of month, allowing for time-sensitive analysis and decision-making
  • Responsible for Capital Expenditure forecasting and amortization projection
  • Responsible for projecting and consolidating all financial information for Cash Flow and Balance Sheet forecasting/budgeting

Reporting:

• • Deliver actuals reporting to business units and finance team, including tracking on key metrics in relation to month-end finance activities
  • Prepare reports and recommendations, enabling effective evaluation of business performance and decision-making in areas of subscriber metrics
  • Prepare standard and ad hoc reports and presentations for monthly management meetings
  • Prepare periodic and ad-hoc report, period analysis and forecast/reforecast for P&L, Asset, Cash Flow and Balance sheet
  • Perform data Analysis and prepare root causes and drivers, pull specific data in relation to the analysis

Modeling:

• • Develop, implement and use tools for managing and analyzing business performance
  • Create and maintain complex multi-year models and monitor metrics to continuously improve upon forecasting of business performance
  • Provide business case analysis on new marketing initiatives
  • Maintain Asset depreciation, Cash Flow, and Deferred Revenue models

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS

Level of Education

• Bachelor’s degree in commerce, business administration or economics
• Recognized accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA or equivalent) preferred

Job Related Experience

• Minimum 2+ years of relevant experience
• Proficiency in analysis and data mining using SQL (considered an asset)
• Proficiency in Hyperion Essbase

Skills and Background

• Ability to create and maintain complex, multi-year, financial models and perform variance analysis
• Familiarity with subscriber-based business
• Experience working with and presenting to senior management
• Advanced-level skills in Microsoft Excel
• Basic SQL Querying knowledge
• Ability to work within a dynamic fast-paced environment
• Familiarity with International Financial Reporting Standards

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