Senior Financial Analyst
About The Position
Support the Canadian business in achieving financial targets and strategic objectives through high-quality financial analysis and insights. Provide accurate, timely, and actionable financial information to support planning, forecasting, and decision-making. Partner with Sales, Product, and Operations teams to improve financial and operational performance. Contribute to the development of financial models, reporting, and analytics that enhance business visibility and outcomes. Key contributor within the finance team supporting budgeting, forecasting, pricing, inventory, and commercial analysis. Acts as a business partner to functional teams, providing financial insights to support decision-making. Supports the development and improvement of financial processes, reporting, and analytical tools. Focuses on analysis, execution, and continuous improvement rather than team leadership.
Requirements
- Appropriate tertiary qualifications and CA qualified
- Commercial accounting experience
- Ability to analyse and interpret complex financial data
- Strong understanding of strategic forecasting and budget processes
- Ability to implement cost control NPD and pricing strategies to improve profit performance
- Strong financial understanding and analytical skills
- Strong commercial acumen and experience in translating financial results into commercial and operational performance
- Strong analytical skills, especially make meaning of diverse data to identify trends and insights
- Advanced user of MS Office and analytics applications (Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI)
- Systems skills and knowledge of large ERP systems (JDE, Salesforce)
Responsibilities
- Support the monthly business planning cycle with Sales and Product teams
- Analyze demand assumptions and assess financial implications of commercial initiatives
- Translate demand plans into financial forecasts, incorporating pricing, cost, and investment drivers
- Support the preparation of 5-year plans, annual budgets and quarterly forecasts
- Maintain and enhance forecasting models, including input templates and assumptions
- Analyze forecast vs. actual performance and provide variance insights
- Develop reporting (e.g., Power BI) to improve visibility into performance and gaps to target
- Challenge assumptions and highlight risks and opportunities
- Challenge the quality of the process, the business assumptions, and the output to ensure a rigorous outcome that is led by investment drivers and aligned to strategy.
- Partner with functional teams to interpret financial and operational performance
- Deliver monthly performance analysis and insights to business stakeholders
- Support product lifecycle analysis (new product introductions, end-of-life decisions)
- Contribute to value chain analysis and performance tracking
- Assist in the development of BI tools and reporting capabilities
- Support Local and Global Product Line Leaders as required
- Analyze key drivers of gross margin including pricing, cost, freight, and mix
- Provide insights into product and customer profitability
- Support Sales and Product teams with data-driven recommendations to improve performance
- Identify trends, risks, and opportunities impacting future performance
- Support the business with insights and reporting as it needs to lift performance and drive towards Leading Goals.
- Partnering with the business to assess how learning from past results can be used to drive Initiatives for improved future performance.
- Support the financial valuation of initiative benefits and the ongoing tracking of performance.
- Contribute to solutions for emerging threats and gaps to target.
- Resolve events and drive process improvement initiatives to drive efficiency
- Continually seek to improve visibility and reporting of key data to lift business performance.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
