Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Senior Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst (full time)

The FP&A Analyst will support the month‑end process to ensure accurate financial results, forecasting, budgeting, and ad hoc analysis for special projects. The position reports to the Financial Controller, M&O and will be a key part of the Financial Planning and Analysis team. Strong organizational, analytical and communication skills are invaluable. This role will be responsible for completing varied activities within tight deadlines and will interact with other finance and accounting personnel.

What you will enjoy doing

• This role is a great mix of finance and business partnering—you’d be supporting the monthly close process, including journal entries, accruals, reconciliations, and financial analysis
• You’d work closely with the Merchant Sales leadership team, helping them understand sales trends, customer performance, pricing, product mix, and overall profitability
• A big part of the role is turning financial data into meaningful insights that help the business make better decisions and drive growth
• You’d be responsible for preparing monthly reporting packages and explaining key performance drivers, risks, opportunities, and overall business results
• The role is heavily involved in budgeting and forecasting, partnering with stakeholders to develop accurate revenue, volume, margin, and cost projections
• You’d monitor key financial and operational metrics, investigate variances, identify trends, and recommend actions to improve performance and cash flow
• There’s a strong focus on continuous improvement, including streamlining reporting and forecasting processes through automation and better tools
• Overall, it’s a highly visible role where you’ll partner with both finance and commercial teams, providing insights that directly influence business performance and strategy

What makes you great

• We’re ideally looking for someone with a degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field, and a CPA designation (or someone working toward it) would be a strong asset
• The role is best suited for someone with about 5–8 years of experience in FP&A, accounting, or finance, ideally within a manufacturing or industrial environment
• A big part of the position is analyzing sales performance, profitability, pricing, and business trends to help support strategic decision‑making
• You’ll need to be comfortable working with large amounts of data and translating it into actionable business insights
• Strong Excel skills are important, as you'll be involved in financial modeling, forecasting, reporting, and analysis
• This is a highly collaborative role, so strong communication skills and the ability to build relationships across different teams are key
• We’re looking for someone who can confidently partner with stakeholders and influence decisions through data‑driven recommendations
• A continuous improvement mindset is important, along with experience using ERP and reporting tools such as Oracle BI, Hyperion, JD Edwards, or similar systems

This is an existing position with an annual salary range of $80,000 – $87,500

Linde is a leading global industrial gases and engineering company. We live our mission of making our world more productive every day by providing high‑quality solutions, technologies and services which are making our customers more successful and helping to sustain, decarbonize and protect our planet.

The company serves a variety of end markets such as chemicals & energy, food & beverage, electronics, healthcare, manufacturing, metals and mining. Linde's industrial gases and technologies are used in countless applications including production of clean hydrogen and carbon capture systems critical to the energy transition, life‑saving medical oxygen and high‑purity & specialty gases for electronics. Linde also delivers state‑of‑the‑art gas processing solutions to support customer expansion, efficiency improvements and emissions reductions.

At Linde, every day is an opportunity: an opportunity to learn, to grow, to share success and to contribute to one of the world’s leading industrial gas and engineering companies.

Linde Canada Inc. is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities. Applicants requiring accommodation during the recruitment and selection process are encouraged to make their needs known in advance if accommodation is required. We will work with you to meet your needs.

We are committed to employment equity for women, aboriginal people, visible minorities, and persons with disabilities. Interested candidates from these groups are encouraged to apply.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression or any other reason prohibited by applicable law.

*The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees assigned to this classification. They are not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of employees assigned to this position. Therefore employees assigned may be required to perform additional job tasks required by the manager.

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