Senior Financial Analyst

POSITION SUMMARY

Reporting to the Director of Financial Planning & Analysis, the Senior Financial Analyst will enable success through business partnership and leveraging exceptional analytical skills to utilize data and available systems to support comprehensive financial analysis.

Is required to complete multiple business cases and participate in cross functional teams to support decision making.

The candidate will communicate clearly and concisely to support the development of TPA’s annual budget, monthly forecasting and performance measurement of each business unit.

The role also supports various financial governance initiatives, management reporting and special projects as assigned.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepare and present key components of the annual financial budget, monthly forecasts, and profitability of business segments
• Prepare the financial models (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow and Equity) for forecasting, budgeting and long-range planning.
• Coordinate with City of Toronto stakeholders to provide timely financials and supporting schedules
• Leverage business intelligence tool and develop a site and channel financial and KPI dashboard
• Summarize monthly variance to budget and prior year in collaboration with business partners to qualify root cause qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Support monthly capital expenditure tracking and forecasting with key stakeholders and determine risk and opportunities
• Support monthly and quarterly management reporting through data mining and analyzing financial results, synthesizing key trends, and communicating business insights to senior leadership team
• Analyze trends and identify risks and opportunities to support short and long-term business objectives
• Apply strong business acumen to influence a culture of continuous improvement by implementing process and job efficiencies
• Create organization impact and manage change by leveraging networks and cross-functional partnerships
• Communicate effectively with internal stakeholders, express information and ideas clearly in a convincing and organized manner
• Partner with senior leadership team to prepare profitability analysis on key initiatives
• Support the development and interpretation of key performance indicators by business segment
• Collaborate with the controllership to align on Finance related governance, controls and knowledge sharing
• Ensure governance around purchase orders and actuals spending is aligned to budgeted general ledger accounts
• Foster a continuous improvement culture, drive change and elevate the level of reporting for the overall organization, business units, and functional departments
• Build rapport with business and develop a highly collaborative and respectful dialogue to support the growth of the organization and delivery of services to our customers
• Work within the framework of policies and governance while supporting the organizational objectives
• Support ad-hoc projects and other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE :

• Post-secondary education in BBA or BCom or combination of equivalent work experience
• CPA / Accounting designation is required.
• Minimum five years of experience in financial modelling, budgeting and forecasting
• Excellent relationship building skills to develop and sustain client partnerships as well as working in a cross functional environment.
• Independent thinker who can challenge the status quo and make recommendations with confidence.
• Self driven with attention to detail and ability to consistently generate a high-quality work product is critical as group analysis.
• Previous experience with SAP, business intelligence tools and corporate performance management tools preferred
• 3-5 years of Data Analysis and Power BI experience preferred.
• Able to prioritize work activities in a dynamic work environment
• Advanced Excel user and able to mine and analyze multiple levels of large data set leveraging macros, visual basics, power pivot and query
30+ days ago