Senior Financial Analyst
About The Position
The Senior Financial Analyst is a key contributor to the FP&A supply chain team that provides exceptional planning, analytical, and reporting support to executives. The role plays an important part in business partnering and building relationships with the Supply Chain and Transportation team, the broader Finance function and other stakeholders to understand results and provide exceptional insights. If you are excited to deep dive into financial results and passionate about telling a story to influence decisions, then this role is perfect for you! Provide excellent support to executives by preparing accurate and timely budgets and forecasts, monitoring results versus budget/ forecast, and providing a thorough analysis and investigating variances while identifying risks and opportunities with a focus on providing meaningful/actionable insights. Produce insightful, meaningful, and analytical commentary and reporting that can assist financial and non-financial stakeholders to facilitate decision making. Proactively build and improve financial models to assist with regular reporting and ad hoc analysis and help increase automation and streamlining of reports. Manage data and data mining to translate financial data into actionable insights. Anticipate and support evolving financial performance reporting needs and work with cross functional teams to drive improvements and process changes. Become a trusted business partner to the Transportation business teams and to other finance and retail business teams.
Requirements
- University degree in Business, Finance/Accounting, or business-related discipline
- Are currently pursuing or have obtained an accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, CGA)
- Minimum of 3-5 years in a business or financial analysis role
- Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Access
- Experience with building and improving financial models
- Strong problem solving, analytical and strategic thinking skills; able to see the “big picture” in a complex business environment and natural curiosity to understand the reason behind transactions
- Strong interpersonal, communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills with ability to articulate complex financial results and build and maintain strong relationships
- Attention to detail, organized, motivated self-starter and with ability to thrive in an environment responsive to changing business requirements
- Team player and open to new challenge
Nice To Haves
- Working knowledge of PeopleSoft, HFM, Data visualization tools (Power BI), SQL and Supply Chain experience is an asset
Responsibilities
- Provide excellent support to executives by preparing accurate and timely budgets and forecasts, monitoring results versus budget/ forecast, and providing a thorough analysis and investigating variances while identifying risks and opportunities with a focus on providing meaningful/actionable insights
- Produce insightful, meaningful, and analytical commentary and reporting that can assist financial and non-financial stakeholders to facilitate decision making
- Proactively build and improve financial models to assist with regular reporting and ad hoc analysis and help increase automation and streamlining of reports
- Manage data and data mining to translate financial data into actionable insights
- Anticipate and support evolving financial performance reporting needs and work with cross functional teams to drive improvements and process changes
- Become a trusted business partner to the Transportation business teams and to other finance and retail business teams
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits and retirement programs
- Performance incentives
- Continuing Education Programs
- Other perks to support your well-being
- Career growth opportunities
- product discounts
- store discounts
- supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
- Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
- retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
- mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families
- total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
