FP&A Analyst - Commercial

Cardinal Health, Inc.; Vaughan; Hybrid; CAD 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Financial Planning and Analysis professional to join their team in Vaughan. This hybrid role offers the opportunity to contribute to critical financial analyses and reporting that support management decisions. You will work closely with diverse teams, utilizing your advanced knowledge of financial statements and analytical techniques. Your expertise will help drive profitability and growth while ensuring effective internal controls. If you are eager to learn and implement process improvements in a dynamic environment, this position is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• 1-2 years of experience in FP&A with a strong focus on financial analysis.
• Proficient in Excel and familiar with Tableau or Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Conduct financial analysis and reporting to support management decision-making.
• Prepare monthly financial reviews and profitability analyses.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Analytical Skills

Communication Skills

Excel Proficiency

Forecasting

Education

Post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance

Working towards CPA designation

Tools

Tableau

Power BI

Job description

Cardinal Health Canada, with over 1400 employees, is an essential link in the Canadian healthcare supply chain, providing over 70,000 products to healthcare facilities and medical professionals across the country.

We are currently looking for a Financial Planning and Analysis, Commercial who will be responsible for providing financial analysis and reporting to support management decision-making.

• Demonstrates advanced knowledge of financial statements and analytical techniques

• Reviews financial output for reasonableness

• Creates more complex forecasting and financial models

• Conducts more complex analyses within respective business

• Explains variances and identifies implications on business

• Summarizes analyses and makes recommendations

This role will occasionally work with the FP&A Lead on Management Reporting with some exposure to the Senior Director FP&A of Cardinal Health Canada. This is a hybrid role reporting at our Vaughan head office 2 days a week.

Your Contributions to the Organization:

Core Responsibilities

• Works to understand complex functional situations by paying attention to the details of the tasks at hand and by breaking them down into smaller pieces

• Proactively develops and maintains broad knowledge of the technical disciplines in own functional area(s); applies broad knowledge of trends and

• Uses subject matter/functional expertise, and process skills to help internal customers and stakeholders identify and meet their high priority needs while considering implications.

• Measures and compares measurement results to standards and works with Hiring Manager to evaluate the effectiveness of protocols, programs or deliverables

• Evaluates alternative solutions/decisions in light of the potential impact on the internal/external customer and Cardinal Health

• Eager to learn the business and demonstrates willingness to implement process improvement tools

• Preparation of the monthly financial review (MFR) file in CAD & USD that is presented to the US team and Canadian Leadership Team

• Analyze monthly revenues, variances, gross margin and preparing supporting documentation for analytics

• Maintain internal controls over financial reporting while creating regional reports to support new business structure

• Maintain E-Comm and Pandemic reporting to drive profitability and growth within the business unit along with achievement of key strategic initiatives

• Gathering assumptions from Business Units in the development of budgets and forecasts (Sales and Marketing assumptions and with SG&A)

• Preparation of the profitability analysis used to determine whether a contract will generate the required profit levels required by the business

• Demonstrates strong collaboration and communication skills across diverse work groups – Finance, Sales, Marketing, Business Intelligence, Contracts, Strategic Pricing, Customer Service, etc

• Preparation of ad-hoc analysis as required and other tasks as assigned

Qualifications:

• Minimum 1-2 years of experience in FP&A

• Post-secondary education in Accounting or Finance, preferred

• Working towards a CPA designations, preferred

• Highly proficient in Excel

• Exposure to executive leadership is an asset

• Experience in a budget cycle is an asset

• Experience with Tableau or Power BI is an asset

• Strong communication & analytical skills

Cardinal Health is committed to employment equity and encourages applications from women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, and persons with disabilities.

Cardinal Health is committed to accommodating applicants with disabilities throughout the hiring process, in accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). Our Human Resources team is responsible for working with applicants requesting accommodation at any stage of the hiring process.

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