Manager Financial Planning and Analysis

Professional Staffing; Greater Toronto Area; On-site; CAD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a skilled Financial Planning and Analysis Manager to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you'll provide essential financial insights and support to drive decision-making and ensure long-term growth aligned with strategic priorities. Collaborating closely with senior management, you'll oversee financial reporting, budgeting, and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and timely delivery. This position offers a chance to influence operational changes and enhance profitability while working in a fast-paced environment that values initiative and collaboration. Join a forward-thinking company and make a significant impact on its financial health.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in financial analysis and planning with strong business link.
• Professional accounting designation or MBA considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Provide financial expertise and decision support to senior leadership.
• Prepare monthly reporting packages and variance analysis.

Skills

Financial Analysis

Budgeting

Forecasting

Data Analysis

Communication Skills

People Management

MS Excel

SQL

Hyperion

Education

University Degree in Business, Finance, or Accounting

Professional Accounting Designation or MBA

Tools

MS Excel

Hyperion

SQL

Job description

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Base pay range

CA$115,000.00/yr - CA$135,000.00/yr

The Manager will interact and collaborate with the rest of the FP&A team and senior management on matters concerning the current and long-term financial performance of the Line of Business and its operating models. An ability to translate complex financial and business metric data into clear, actionable next steps with senior management will be crucial to success in this role. Manager will provide oversight to 2 Analyst.

THE POSITION

The Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis will be responsible for providing financially driven decision support to the business. The Manager will be a source of financial expertise, and act as a trusted advisor to the Senior Leadership Team and ensure that long term, profitable growth is delivered in line with the company's strategic priorities and goals.

• Support all aspects of financial reporting for Line of Business; including the design, creation and management of monthly reporting package, board reporting and other ad hoc requirements.
• Prepare a monthly reporting package that includes key financial information, comprehensive KPI reporting, analysis of key performance drivers and business trends, actual versus budget variances, and comprehensive executive level explanations of differences.
• Prepare analysis, commentary, and presentation material for the monthly and quarterly financial review meetings.
• Analyze, understand, and communicate the current financial performance of the business. Oversee the production of monthly/quarterly variance analysis of actual vs budget and forecast, including root cause analysis, and recommendations to improve profitability and deliver planned targets. Make recommendations for proactive operational changes to drive for improved financial management and profitability. Work collaboratively with FP&A team and business unit leadership to influence required changes
• Ensure required monthly management reports, revenue, cost, profitability and headcount bridges, and key metric reports for Line of Business are produced on time, and are consistent in methodology and approach, with other divisions.
• Support month-end close and quarterly external reporting requirements, as required.
• Support the annual budget process, working collaboratively with a multi-functional team. Challenge key assumptions based on actual trends, knowledge of the business model, and the need to continuously improve overall profitability. Help ensure an accurate forecast is built with buy in from all key leadership team members.
• Establish budget tools, set timelines and support the process for the Line of Business, ensuring all budgets are accurate, comprehensive, and completed on time.
• Manage budgeting & forecasting process on a monthly and annual basis.
• Establish budget calendar and communicate expectations for the budget process to organizational leaders.
• Ensure that budget/forecast make sense, are accurate and include the operational priorities of the company.
• Be a key partner to FP&A team and senior leadership to drive improved results in a sustainable manner. Influence cultural change by ensuring financial data is disseminated, reviewed, and linked to decisions in a way that drives for overall margin growth. Ability to take initiative and constructively challenge the status quo to continuously improve processes and methodologies. Strive to become more efficient and provide better value-add support to business partners and leaders.
• Provide financial support for business cases. Ensure effective, but profitable growth commitments are made and agreed to by the leadership team before securing incremental company resources. Track actual performance vs estimated in the business cases to capture learnings and report back to management
• Influence cultural change by ensuring financial data is disseminated, reviewed, and linked to decisions in a way that drives for overall margin growth. Be a key partner to FP&A team and senior leadership to drive improved results in a sustainable manner
• Demonstrate thought leadership, proposes alternate financial and business solutions to assigned business unit leader(s) to support their business decision making, and enhance profitability.

Work closely with their peers / team to provide financial guidance and support in interpreting and analyzing financial issues of the assigned business unit(s).

• Have established personal credibility at the Executive, Peer and Staff level.
• Have enhanced the quality, accuracy, and timely delivery of all financial reports
• Have established understanding of data flows within the multiple operating systems within the Line of Business

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• University degree, with a business, finance, or accounting focus
• Professional accounting designation or MBA considered an asset
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience in a similar role
• Previous experience in financial analysis and planning with strong link to business and operations a must
• Experience forecasting/budgeting with a high degree of accuracy
• Previous people management experience is required
• Excellent communication skills, and a demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels of management
• Strong analytical skills with a proven ability to interpret data, analyze information, and an ability to write formal recommendations and proposals. Ability to gather and analyze large amounts of data at a macro and micro level.
• Experience working under pressure, meeting tight deadlines, and prioritizing various deliverables
• Advanced knowledge in MS Excel; Hyperion and SQL experience strongly preferred
• An ability to use a variety of technology tools to access information is required.
• Must be available to work evenings, weekends and/or statutory holidays to meet specified deadlines.
• A self-starter and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Adept at developing strong working relationships with staff and peers.
• Ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.
• High sense of urgency.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, ability to prioritize and meet deadlines.
• A high energy, positive person.
• Exhibit flexibility and willingness to take on new responsibilities

EDUCATION

• University Degree.

Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada

I would like to thank all the candidates in advance, due to the large volume applicants only the short-listed candidates will be contacted.

Please do stay connected on LinkedIn for future opportunities

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Accounting/Auditing and Finance

• Industries

  Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage

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