Senior Financial Analyst – Vehicles & Consolidation

Toyota Motor Corporation•Brossard, QC

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) is seeking a highly collaborative, energetic, and results-oriented Senior Financial Analyst to join their F&A team. This role will be responsible for vehicle profitability analysis, forecasting, planning, and providing consolidation support. The successful candidate will also support the business with forward-looking financial analysis to enable decision-making in a dynamic business environment. This is a hybrid role based in Scarborough, ON.

Requirements

Post secondary education in Business, Accounting and/or other relevant areas.
CPA/CA/CMA/CGA designation.
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.
Communicate 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.
Partner 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.