Financial Planning Analyst - FP&A - March 2025

Life Health Products LP; Acton; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Financial Planning Analyst to provide critical financial and operational support. In this pivotal role, you will conduct financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and margin reporting, ensuring alignment with business objectives. You will collaborate with various departments, prepare detailed financial models, and present insights to senior management. This position offers an exciting opportunity to enhance financial processes and contribute to strategic decision-making within a dynamic environment. If you are passionate about finance and eager to make a significant impact, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in financial analysis and reporting.
• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting with CPA or FP&A certification.

Responsibilities

• Develop and analyze financial forecasts and budgets aligned with business goals.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports and dashboards.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Variance Analysis

Communication Skills

Analytical Skills

Excel

Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting

CPA designation

Certified Corporate FP&A Professional

Tools

Financial Software Platforms

Excel

Job description

Financial Planning Analyst - FP&A - March 2025

Provides financial and operational support to the Company in order to achieve their business goals and objectives. Primary functions include the performance of financial analysis, budgeting, forecasting, margin reporting and analysis across customers, vendors and cost centres. This role will play a critical role in maintaining company-wide standardized business performance measures including key performance indicators (KPI’s), greater visibility surrounding margin reporting as well as supporting ad hoc projects and reporting within Finance, Sales and Operations. This position is located at our headoffice in Acton, Ontario.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Financial Forecasting and Budgeting: Develop, maintain, and analyze financial forecasts and budgets that are aligned with short and long-term goals of Purity. This includes collaborating with different departments to gather information, preparing detailed financial models, and presenting findings to senior management.
2. Variance Analysis: Compare actual financial results against forecasts and budgets, analyze variances, and provide explanations and recommendations for adjustments or improvements.
3. Financial Reporting: Prepare and deliver monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports. This may include dashboards, KPI’s, treasury reporting and customized financial analysis covering Finance, Sales and Operations.
4. Margin Reporting: Update and maintain accurate costing of inventory to support effective customer pricing. Review the adequacy of inventory standards throughout the year and update as required. Collaborate with the sales team to review pricing and analyze margin variances across customer and vendor base, ensuring pricing strategies align with business goals.
5. Ad-Hoc Analysis: Provide financial analysis for special projects, investment opportunities, acquisitions, or cost-cutting initiatives.
6. Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to improve financial processes and systems to enhance efficiency and accuracy in reporting and forecasting.

Qualifications:

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance or accounting, with a CPA designation, or Certified Corporate FP&A Professional.

Experience:

• 5 + years of relevant work experience.
• Experience or exposure to inventory costing environment.

Knowledge:

• Strong ability to build models and develop internal financial reports to assist departments in managing their business on an ongoing basis as well as assist with projections of revenues and expenses.
• Highly motivated individual who will aggressively pursue knowledge of the business to produce better and more meaningful information to support decision making process.
• Strong experience with accounting, financial planning, reporting, analysis, and system implementations.
• Excellent analytical and modelling skills with in-depth experience in financial analysis.

Skills & Abilities:

• Strong communication skills and ability to work closely with those outside the finance function including Sales and Operations.
• Exceptional analytic and financial analysis skills with the ability to dig deep without losing sight of the big picture.
• Advanced working knowledge of Excel and other financial software platforms.
• Highly adept at extracting and analyzing large data sets for business insights and reporting across various data platforms.
• A passion for winning, a competitive nature and a drive for excellence and challenging the status quo.
• Excellent time management skills with a very high level of attention to details.
• Ability to multi-task with tight deadlines and prioritize crucial deliverables.