Senior Financial Analyst – Vehicles & Consolidation

Toyota Motor Corporation•Brossard, QC

1d•CA$89,100 - CA$117,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Toyota currently has an exciting opportunity for an individual who is highly collaborative, energetic, and thrives in a fast-paced environment. This individual will own vehicle profitability analysis, forecasting, planning, and provide consolidation support within the F&A team. In addition, this individual will support the business with forward looking financial analysis to enable decision making to manage the changing needs of the business.

Requirements

Post secondary education in Business, Accounting and/or other relevant areas
CPA designation or other relevant designation is required
5-7 years financial experience (including financial budgeting, planning, reporting and analysis experience).
Experience partnering with the business including at senior levels
ERP system experience coupled with Financial Reporting tools (SAP experience preferred)
Dedication to Continuous improvement (Challenge, Kaizen, Genchi Genbutsu)
Highly motivated individual, who is a self-starter, quick learner, organized, logical thinker and customer focused, likes new challenges
Ability to communicate financial results in a clear and concise manner
Business acumen (Demonstrated ability to link company financials to the larger business and industry context)
Advanced Excel skills
Excellent coaching/mentoring, and team building skills

Responsibilities

Lead in the areas of: Profitability analysis incl. Volume/Mix/Rate analysis across vehicle divisions
Communication of vehicle financial results to the business and Finance Senior Management
Provide ad-hoc decision support to assist decision making in line with the Finance Vision
Partnering with the vehicle accounting analyst to support the vehicle division as one F&A
Take initiative, and proactively influence the business (e.g. through financial business “value add” modelling)
Demonstrate the Toyota Way values in daily work – support and foster an environment of “rich communication”, “speed and efficiency”, “customer first”, and “teamwork”
Provide efficient translation of financial data to actionable analysis to the business for transparency, reporting & guidance
Serve as primary contact/liaison with both internal and external stakeholders, ensuring clarity and consistency of messages
Continuously challenge business areas for fiscal responsibility to mitigate financial risks
Support in the mentorship/partnership of the vehicle accounting analysis, as well as other F&A associates
Continue to partner with business leaders to help support short, mid, and long-term planning
Lead stakeholders through TCI’s budgeting, forecasting and general planning processes across the vehicle divisions
Actively work with management to inform and provide analytics and create or maintain key financial models to support scenario modelling and what-if analysis
Build financial models to help identify risks and opportunities in forecasts and budgets
Help translate the financials into meaningful insights that will be leveraged for forecast and budget updates across both EC and SLT forums
Help highlight strategic business decisions, recognizing the implications to both short and long-term planning
Proactively initiate advanced planning with the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis to ensure effective alignment of budget activities with expectations
Ensure appropriate timing and completion of all planning & forecasting related tools, schedules, reports, analysis
Ensure provision of timely and meaningful analyses to support business studies as required
Support FP&A Senior Management in planning, reporting, presentation materials relating to all responsible areas as well as development of communication materials to departments for all planning activities and data gathering
Advanced calendar planning to help the team manage through competing priorities
Support key activity streams related to TCI’s mid, and long-term planning cycles
Partner and build relationship with TMNA, TMC, and Mitsui, serving as a key point of contact
Lead Vehicle Contribution Margin team member(s) towards working actively with Business areas to understand actual and budget variances and initiate actions to mitigate where necessary
Support presentation of business results to senior management highlighting key trends, opportunities or areas of risk
Support Monthly Financial Review (MFR) reporting and participate in MFR meetings and BU reviews to provide clarity and insights
Support monthly Vehicle strategy meetings
Provide general accounting support, along with supporting audit inquiries
Track and report key risks and opportunities to the company’s financial performance
Meet all standards of Regulatory, Statutory requirements
Support other ad hoc projects, as required