Senior Financial Analyst

Canadian Tire Corporation • Toronto, ON

5d • CA$64,000 - CA$106,000

About The Position

This role provides excellent financial support to the Marketing team by preparing accurate and timely budgets and forecasts, monitoring results versus Plan/ forecast / prior year, investigating variances, and providing thorough analysis of financial results. The analyst will produce insightful and relevant commentary that simplifies complex financial matters into a well-crafted story/call-to-action, enabling financial and non-financial stakeholders to drive decisions. The position acts as a trusted advisor, assisting the business in identifying financial risks and opportunities, and managing the long-term outlook planning for the business, ensuring achievability and alignment with strategic direction and growth plans. The role involves proactively building and improving complex financial models for regular and ad hoc analysis and reporting, anticipating evolving financial needs, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to build efficient financial processes. Additionally, the analyst will leverage AI and automation tools to enhance the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of recurring FP&A activities, and identify opportunities to streamline manual processes using tools like Power BI, Power Query, Excel automation, workflow automation, and AI-enabled productivity tools, while maintaining strong financial controls and data integrity.

Requirements

• Post-secondary education in Accounting, Finance or related field.
• 3+ years experience in finance roles, with a preference for roles that directly support finance business partners.
• Budgeting, forecasting, and planning experience, as well as experience with building financial models.
• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.
• Ability to work independently and create brand new reporting for this business unit.
• Excellent communication skills (written and verbal); superior cross functional relationship/collaboration skills.
• Attention to detail, organized, motivated self-starter with an ability to thrive in a growth environment where business requirements are ever evolving.
• Experience with Excel and PowerPoint is required.
• Ability to critically assess outputs from AI-enabled tools, validate results against source data, and apply sound judgment to ensure insights are accurate, explainable, and appropriate for business decision-making.

Nice To Haves

• Post graduate degree (MBA) or designation (CPA, CFA) is considered an asset.
• Experience with HFM (Hyperion) and/or Power BI is considered an asset.
• Demonstrated curiosity and practical experience using AI, automation, or data visualization tools to improve productivity, simplify analysis, or enhance business storytelling; examples may include Copilot, Power BI, Power Query, automated Excel templates, dashboarding, or workflow automation.

Responsibilities

• Provide excellent financial support to the Marketing team by preparing accurate and timely budgets and forecasts, monitoring results versus Plan/ forecast / prior year, investigating variances and providing a thorough analysis of financial results.
• Produce insightful and relevant commentary that can simplify complex financial matters into a well-crafted story/call-to-action, to allow financial and non-financial stakeholders to drive decisions.
• Be a trusted advisor by assisting the business in identifying financial risks and opportunities, as well as managing the long-term outlook planning for the business, ensuring the outlook is achievable and aligns to the strategic direction and growth plans for this business.
• Proactively build and improve on more complicated financial models to assist with regular and ad hoc analysis and reporting.
• Anticipate evolving financial needs and work with cross-functional teams to build efficient financial processes.
• Leverage AI and automation tools to improve the efficiency, accuracy, and scalability of recurring FP&A activities, including monthly reporting, variance analysis, forecast updates, commentary preparation, and dashboard refreshes.
• Identify opportunities to streamline manual processes through tools such as Power BI, Power Query, Excel automation, workflow automation, and AI-enabled productivity tools, while maintaining strong financial controls and data integrity.

Benefits

• competitive salaries and wages
• store discounts
• supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy
• Canadian Tire Profit Sharing
• retirement and savings programs for eligible employees
• enhanced flex benefits program
• mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families
• total well-being
• mental health tools and resources for all employees

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior