What you’ll do
Our Finance team plays a key role in helping us stay competitive in the ever-changing retail environment by providing accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting, analysis, and advice to our business.
Reporting to the Manager of FP&A supporting CTR, this role supports our Canadian Tire Retail partners to provide financial counsel in planning, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing CTC’s anchor retail business.
Provide excellent support to client groups by monitoring results versus budget / forecast / prior year and providing thorough analyses, and investigating variances while identifying risks and opportunities that will impact future periods
Produce insightful, meaningful, and analytical commentary and reporting that can assist financial and non-financial stakeholders to facilitate decision making
Prepare forward-looking, accurate, and timely annual budgets and mid-year forecasts pertaining to various margin line items, leveraging historical trends and key assumptions to guide future expectations
Anticipate evolving financial performance reporting needs and work with cross-functional teams to drive improvements and process changes
Participate as a subject matter expert in special projects and ad hoc analysis as required
What you bring
University degree or College diploma in Business, Finance / Accounting, or business-related discipline
Are currently pursuing or have obtained an accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, CGA)
2+ years in a business or financial analysis role
Budgeting, forecasting, and planning experience, as well as experience with financial modeling.
Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
Excellent communication skills; superior cross functional relationship / collaboration skills.
Attention to detail, organized, motivated self-starter and with ability to thrive in an environment responsive to changing business requirements.
Working knowledge of PeopleSoft, HFM and SQL is an asset
Hybrid
We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes.
Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.