Financial Analyst

CPA Ontaro; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A professional accounting organization in Toronto is seeking a Financial Analyst to support reporting, budgeting, and forecasting activities. This role requires collaboration with various teams to ensure accurate financial analysis and decision-making. Candidates should have a degree in finance or accounting, relevant experience, and be proficient in Excel and other tools. This position offers a hybrid work environment and opportunities for professional growth.

Benefits

Healthy lifestyle allowance

Mental health resources

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years experience as a Financial Analyst.
• Deep understanding of financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Perform monthly and quarterly financial reporting and variance analysis.
• Collaborate with Business Unit leads for budgeting and forecasting.
• Ensure accurate financial reporting with the accounting team.

Skills

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Microsoft Excel

SQL

Education

Post-secondary degree in finance, accounting, or business

CPA certification (in process/completed)

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Power BI

Power Query

Job description

Bring Your Reporting and Analysis Skills to Our Finance Team

contract, full-time – 18 months)

CPA Ontario is currently in search of a Financial Analyst toprepare and analyze business and management reports in support of the organization’s planning and decision-making processes. In this role you will support our leaders with reporting and analytics, maintain existing reports, collaborate with members of the Finance team and cross-functionally with other departments, and contribute to annual budgeting and forecasting efforts.

What You’ll Be Doing :

Performing monthly and quarterly financial reporting,conducting variance analysis tosupport decision-making, track operational metrics, and communicate and analyze results with key stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Collaborating with Business Unit leads to develop, analyze, and support the budgeting and forecasting process, preparing presentations and summarizing the budget and forecast for the senior leadership and assessing assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities.

Supporting the budgeting and forecasting processby designing and formatting relevant templates and consolidating budget data.

Collaborating cross-functionally with leadership across the organizationto understand and translate business objectives and provide analysis to track key performance indicators and budgets.

Collaborating closely with the accounting teamto ensure accurate financial reporting.

Who You Are :

Apost-secondary graduate preferably in finance, accounting or business with a minimum 2 years’ experience as a Financial Analyst, and a deep understanding of financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

Enrolled in or in the process of completing the CPA certification program; a completed CPA designation and current member in good standing is strongly preferred.

Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams with advanced Microsoft Excel functions and data manipulation techniques, including but not limited to pivot tables, arrays, formulas, and macros. Experience with Power Query, Power BI or SQL query an asset.

Experienced at extracting data, creating queries, developing complex reports ad providing detailed analysis.

Experienced at translating complex financial concepts into final reports and summaries for management presentations.

An excellent communicator (verbal and written) with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills and able to work as part a team and collaborate with others across multiple departments and at all levels.

Flexible working in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment where work outside of regular business hours may be required.

What We Offer :

A fast-paced environment. Collaboration, innovation and passionate professionals are at our core. We relentlessly pursue what’s next to unlock the full potential of you and us together.

Hybridwork environment. As part of our Hybrid work culture, weinclude a portion of remote work within an overall approach that places a high value on in-office teamwork and collaboration.

Diversity and inclusion. We recognize the value in our differences and prioritize inclusivity to bring together the best talent to protect the public, advance the profession and enable CPAs to lead business and society forward.

Ongoing learning andcareer growth. We want your career to skyrocket. We support career advancement and professional development opportunities with learning investments to promote your future growth. Thrive with us.

Focus on your well-being. With industry leading benefits and wellness programs, including a healthy lifestyle allowance, mental health resources and more, we’re committed to your well-being.

Who We Are :

We protect the public. We advance the profession. We enable CPAs to lead business and society forward. We ensure that our 100,000 members and 21,000 students meet the highest standards of integrity and expertise. We help them stay ahead of global market trends and abreast of regulatory change. CPAs represent a globally recognized, premium designation. Our Chartered Professional Accountants are valued by organizations in all industries for their financial expertise, strategic thinking, management skills and leadership. We believe that success happens when both business and society benefit. For information on the profession visit : cpaontario.ca

We Appreciate Your Interest In CPA Ontario And This Position :

At CPA Ontario, we are committed to building high-performance teams. Our selection process is thorough, and all candidate applications are reviewed. Should your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this role, a member of our recruitment team will contact you. We encourage you to set up CPA Ontario job alerts for positions that align to your experience and career goals.