Job Overview:
As a Financial Analyst I you will, participate in the budgeting, forecasting, and reporting functions to provide corporate leaders with better visibility into the organization’s results, to help drive informed decision making. As a Financial Analyst I you have, a keen interest in technical knowledge of finance methodologies and reporting/business intelligence tools, and leverages these skillsets to deliver effective reporting, accurate forecasts, and insightful analyses.
What you’ll do:
- Build KPI reports to assist in tracking & monitoring the business results at a consolidated, business unit, channel, or location level, and create monthly presentations for Senior Canadian and Enterprise Leadership
- Support the financial planning process by assisting with annual budgeting and weekly forecasting
- Provide business stakeholders better visibility to support decision making and new initiatives
- Prepare monthly internal financial reports to compare actuals to budget, forecast and prior year, and investigate any drivers of significant variances
- Bring business meaning to financials by synthesizing financial data, and identifying variances & trends to provide insightful commentary
What you’ll have:
- Excellent team player – committed to supporting & contributing to a collaborative fun team
- Communication – strong written and oral communication with an ability to compile, analyze and interpret information, and communicate in a simple and succinct manner
- Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce, Accounting, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Math, and/or related field
- 2+ year of experience within an accounting or finance role
- Proven experience with Excel, financial analysis, and financial planning
- Intermediate to advance Excel/VBA and SQL
- Proficiency with numbers and high attention to detail & accuracy are key whilst having an ability to produce concise and complex financial reports
- Time management – ability to work independently under pressure and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Learning about our retail business to develop a strong operational knowledge to help analyses and drive insightful commentary