Senior Financial Analyst

Canadian Blood Services•Ottawa, ON

1d•CA$99,600 - CA$117,200•Hybrid

About The Position

Canadian Blood Services is looking for a regular, full-time, Senior Financial Analyst to join our dynamic Financial Planning & Analysis team. In this role, you will develop and deliver robust financial plans, costing models, and insights to support effective decision‑making. You will build trusted relationships with leaders by clearly communicating business performance, priorities, risks, and opportunities. Lead budgeting, forecasting, and reporting processes while improving tools, data quality, and FP&A practices. You will also coach stakeholders and analysts to strengthen financial acumen and drive sustainable cost optimization through clear, actionable recommendations.

Requirements

A minimum of 7 years of progressive experience in a similar role is required.
Canadian CPA accounting designation in good standing or comparable finance or accounting designation in good standing is required.
Strong knowledge of general accounting principles, financial and managerial accounting is essential.
Advanced experience with Excel and PowerPoint is essential.
Initiative to develop deep and nuanced subject matter expertise for assigned business units, including the interconnection with other business areas. Excellent at knowing when, how much, and who to lean on for perspective and thought partnering support where the analysis required is complex.
Exceptional interpersonal skills; client-focused thinking with the ability to develop trusting relationship at all levels and to become integrated into strategy and decision making of the business unit.
Ability to exercise sound judgment and care in the use of, and application of financial information.
Excellent analytical, costing, and modelling skills including relating operational and financial data, summarizing complex information and highlight salient points in insightful ways to drive business decisions.
Provides recommendations, and highlights improvements to business units to influence cost optimization considering cross-functional impacts and stewardship of Canadian Blood Services funds.
Effective written and verbal communication skills with clear connected thoughts, and confident and engaging presentation and facilitation skills.
Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to manage multiple priorities.
Strong collaboration skills while working with colleagues and management.
Follows through on commitments by considering prioritization, sequencing and delegating that balances individual and team resources, skills, and deliverables.

Nice To Haves

Experience in a large not-for-profit or health care organization is beneficial.
Experience with IBM Planning Analytics (TM1), SAP or an equivalent ERP application is beneficial.
Experience with complex supply chains and manufacturing is beneficial.

Responsibilities

Support the development of robust financial plans for decision making with excellent costing, modelling and sophisticated accounting advice.
Provide financial leadership by developing high trust relationships with leadership teams and staff.
Communicate a deep understanding of the business, its priorities, metrics, cost drivers, trends, opportunities and risks.
Supports process improvement analysis utilizing established financial and non-financial key performance indicators (KPI), data, and metrics.
Present sound and robust financial analysis and insights that includes internal and external factors to help optimize costs in a sustainable way with effective data packaging.
Coach and improve the financial acumen and decision-making of the people you support.
Lead and manage the budget, forecast, and management reporting processes for a complex portfolio with appropriate guidance, sound judgment, and the ability to work through ambiguity.
Support improvements to budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and planning tools by helping standardize processes, improve data quality, and strengthen adoption of consistent FP&A practices.
Provide technical support, coaching and guidance to analysts and business partners by sharing planning knowledge, modelling approaches, reporting standards and financial analysis best practices.
Other responsibilities may be assigned as required to support departmental and organizational objectives.