Senior Financial Analyst

My Client is looking for an experienced Senior Financial Analyst, Operations Finance to join the growing organization. Reporting to the Manager, Financial Planning & Analyst you will be primarily responsible for the driving financial performance and optimizing operational efficiency.

This role will be based from our Head Office in Downtown, Toronto. This is an on-site position

Responsibilities :

Analysis and Reporting

• Be the main point of contact from the Finance Team for the VP of Operations. This includes addressing questions and providing analytics to support their decision making process
• Lead monthly and quarterly meetings with Directors and Regional Directors to review the performance results
• Deliver and lead performance report to senior leadership, including participating in Quarterly Business Reviews
• Collaborate closely with operational teams to develop KPIs, metrics, and dashboards to monitor and evaluate performance against targets.

Identify opportunities for operational improvement and cost optimization

• Analyze monthly practice level statements on a timely basis prior to closing the month to ensure completeness and accuracy of P&L
• Provide insightful variance analysis including detailed understanding on variances to budget, forecast, and prior year and root causes of financial performance
• Provide analytical support to corporate departments, e.g., marketing, procurement, etc.
• Identify potential risks and opportunities affecting financial goals and advise on action plans to address gaps
• Analyze non-financial operating performance indicators, assessing trends and variances
• Continually improve processes, drive change, and elevate the level of reporting for the overall corporation
• Define how the business can create additional value through taking multiple data points and transferring those into actionable insights / analysis for the team

Planning and Forecasting

• Lead discussions with the Operations team during the budgeting process, with a focus on creating a bottoms-up revenue build
• Support the forecasting process by assessing trends and understanding market conditions

Other

• Provide ad-hoc analysis and lead various other reporting projects including decision support, metrics and analytics
• Perform other duties as assigned

Education, Credentials, Qualifications :

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or related field; CPA designation strongly preferred.
• 3-5 years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis

Required Skills & Abilities :

• A strong communicator, a natural business partner and will demonstrate big picture thinking, with a strong grasp of the details, and a can-do attitude.
• Advanced Excel skills, including but not limited to vlookups and pivot tables, and building complex models
• Strong proficiency with Business Intelligence tools (Power BI, Tableau, etc.) in order to develop reports and analytics
• Ability to navigate through and support a continually growing client base and become a trusted business partner to the Operations team (VP’s, Directors and Regional Managers)
• Multi-site experience is preferred.
12 hours ago