Reporting to the VP Finance, the Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst will bring their expertise in finance, financial modelling and analytics to clearly communicate insights to senior leadership members / stakeholders while also bringing forth solutions and actionable recommendations.
The successful candidate will come from a strong manufacturing background (food processing preferred) and will demonstrate experience in collaborating with different departments to deliver quality financial analysis.
RESPONSIBILITIES :
- Develop financial models, projections and analysis to support strategic initiatives.
- Support internal teams in understanding and analyzing the drivers for improving profitability and optimizing working capital.
- Analyze financial performance across all aspects of the business, including sales, finance, production, supply chain, procurement, product development and logistics.
- Manage and deliver various weekly / monthly / quarterly reports, analysis and business reviews alongside finance and executive team members.
- Create and oversee financial and operational reporting and tools to assist with the monitoring and analysis of important financial and operational metrics.
- Partner with internal stakeholders in developing budgets and monitoring performance against budget.
- Manage and lead the development and analysis of rolling financial forecasts.
- Provide financial solutions and recommendations to senior leadership team with a clear focus on continuous improvement.
- Support organizational initiatives to enhance and grow data driven decision making.
- Collaborate with other departments in validating and sourcing data.
- Develop and maintain documentation for system and operational users.
- Other job duties as required.
REQUIREMENTS :
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
- A minimum of 4 years of financial analysis experience required, with a manufacturing and / or food processing background preferred.
- Professional designation (CPA) is preferred but not required.
- Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
- Team player with exceptional ability to establish and maintain quality relationships.
- Strong work ethic and a demonstrated ability to deliver results within agreed to timelines.
- Highly developed experience with financial modeling and manipulating large amounts of data.
- Demonstrated ability to understand data relationships, identify trends and analyze variances.
- Expert level skills using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience working with business intelligence (BI) tools is strongly preferred (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, etc)
- Experience working with forecasting and budgeting software is considered an asset.
IND3
22 days ago