Senior Financial Analyst

This position is a CONTRACT position for 6 months and the successful candidate must be available to start within a week of interview.

Please only apply if you are ok with the above.

Your new company

Hays Specialist Recruitment has partnered with a housing corporation located in Toronto, ON. We are looking to hire a Senior Financial Analyst to join their team on a contract basis of 6 months, which has the possibility of extension.

This candidate will be working from their Downtown Toronto (Yonge, near Rosedale station) Office on a hybrid basis (1 day a week in office).

Your new role

• Lead process improvement projects to drive efficiencies, system savings including mapping existing processes from start to finish and make recommendations to senior management
• Support senior executives with decision support services including analyzing large volumes of data such as work orders and purchase orders, vendor spend, identifying root causes of issues
• Supervise the development of all working papers and relevant data modeling to prepare the institutional budget plan and in-year monitoring towards fiscal targets
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify opportunities for business improvement and cost optimization
• Analysis of current process activities and performance to identify areas of improvement opportunities
• Challenge the status quo and recommend innovative ways to improve process efficiency and quality
• Develop, enhance, and maintain financial models and dashboards for financial planning purposes in collaboration with IT
• Build strategic data models using key operational data, statistics, and financial data to project financial implications of various TCHC projects and business cases
• Support special projects, reports and analysis, as well as ad hoc requests as needed

What you'll need to succeed

• 3+ years of financial planning and analysis experience with strong acumen in cash flow reporting and analysis
• University degree in Mathematics, Finance, or Commerce
• Accounting designation i.e. CA, CMA, CGA
• Previous hands on budget and forecast experience
• Expert level financial modeling (preferably Microsoft Excel) and analysis skills required
• Expert level knowledge in Excel macros and formulas
• Experience in residential real estate, multi-residential industry
• Extensive knowledge of the principles and practices of consolidation, financial analysis, financial instruments
• Oral and written communication skills to deal with a broad range of contacts
• Organizational skills to identify, prioritize and meet strict and challenging deadlines
• Customer focused, interpersonal and negotiating skills to engage in departmental leads and staff
7 days ago