Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis (CT Retail & Corporate Functions OPEX)

Canadian Tire Corporation; Toronto; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Canadian Tire Corporation is seeking a Financial Analyst, FP&A to support CTR Opex & Corp Functions with forward-looking analyses, financial planning, and reporting. You will partner with business clients, drive efficiency improvements, and contribute to a strategic transformation across the finance portfolio.

Responsibilities include understanding drivers, delivering insightful performance reports to senior management, collaborating across the organization, and leading change to improve

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance.
• 1 to 3 years progressive experience in finance roles.
• Professional designation (CPA, CFA) or MBA considered an asset.
• Strong Excel and Power BI skills; experience with forecasting and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Understand major financial performance drivers and assist decision makers in action plans.
• Prepare meaningful performance reporting to communicate the story behind financials.
• Collaborate across the organization to reflect financial impacts of initiatives in plans and forecasts.
• Lead change and foster new approaches to business questions.
• Bring efficiencies to reporting, forecasting and planning processes.

Skills

Advanced Excel

Power BI

Data analysis

Financial forecasting

Analytical thinking

Education

Business/Accounting/Finance degree

Tools

Power Query

Pivot tables

Data modeling

Job description

The Canadian Tire Finance team plays a key role in helping us stay competitive in the ever-changing retail environment by providing accurate, timely, and high-quality financial planning & reporting, analysis, and advice. Reporting to the Manager, CTR OPEX & Corp Functions FP&A, the Financial Analyst, FP&A role helps drive the organization to achieve its financial and strategic targets by providing financial insights, partnering with business clients, and leading efficiency improvements during a period of significant transformation.

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Financial Analyst of FP&A to support various initiatives across the CTR Opex & Corp Functions portfolio. This role will deliver seamless and timely forward looking financial and business information, as well as actionable value-added business insights to key executive decision makers. The ideal candidate will possess strong financial acumen and communication skills, be a self-starter with the proven ability to deliver results.

What You'll Do

• Develop understanding of major financial performance drivers and assist business decision makers in the development of action plans to meet financial goals and mitigate risks
• Preparation of meaningful and innovative performance reporting that communicates the story behind the financial performance to senior management
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure the financial impacts of key strategic initiatives are accurately reflected within our financial plans and forecasts
• Be a leader of change - challenging current approaches and fostering new ways of approaching business questions
• Bring efficiencies to the reporting and forecasting and planning processes

Who You Are

We are looking for individuals who are:

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
• Action oriented, outcome focused, and critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across the corporation
• Collaborative team players, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward
• Drive - Results oriented and organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities, maintaining attention to detail while retaining focus on the big picture
• Critical Thinking - Be able to think through business problems wholistically

What You'll Bring

• Innovative mindset to help drive the transformation of the broader FP&A team
• Comfortable analyzing and interpreting large, complex datasets from multiple sources to drive business insights and strategic decisions to identify trends, variances, and opportunities
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including (complex formulas, pivot tales, Power Query, and data modeling) is essential.
• Reporting and forecasting experience, as well as experience with financial modeling including experience using Power BI
• University degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance
• 1 to 3 years progressive experience in finance roles
• Working towards a professional accounting/financial designation (CPA, CFA), or Post Graduate Degree (MBA) considered an asset

The target salary range is between $60,000 and $75,000.00 CAD Annual. Salary decisions are also dependent on other factors such as your experience, job-related knowledge, skills and competencies, m

This posting represents an existing vacancy within our organization.

We may use artificial intelligence tools as part of our recruitment process to assist in the initial screening of resumes. All hiring decisions, including candidate evaluation, selection, and disposition, are made by human recruiters.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, over 1,600 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.