Route to Market Financial Analyst

Apple Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in technology is seeking a financial professional to drive critical business initiatives in Toronto. This role involves managing demand generation activities, providing financial analysis, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to support corporate strategy and goals. Candidates should have extensive experience in commercial finance, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in finance-related tools.

Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in commercial finance or demand planning.
• Proficient in building business models and forecasts.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.

Responsibilities

• Build and lead business initiatives while collaborating with teams.
• Manage demand generation activities and financial controllership.
• Provide financial analysis and contribute to business reviews.

Skills

Collaboration

Problem Solving

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

College degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or other quantitative field

Tools

Excel

Keynote

Business Objects

SQL

Tableau

Slack

Job description

Description

Build and lead critical business initiatives while collaborating extensively with other Apple functional, geographical and global teams to ensure that Canada is exceeding overall corporate strategy and goals.Additional responsibilities include : Structure demand generation activities and set investment parameters for programs.Challenge, influence, and build forecasts for our products to ensure Apple can meet customer needs.Deeply understand industry trends, partner dynamics, demand generation program performance, and competitive landscape by running analytics to uncover market insights, and advise sales teams on actions needed to influence product and channel performance.Provide finance controllership and risk management, ensuring investments meet meticulous financial metrics; review financial controls and lead governance, including quarter-end spend, and accruals, and compensation plans.Manage channel terms, ensuring optimization and compliance of contractual margin investments.Liaise with the WW Sales Finance teams, sharing geo-specific market insight, advocating for geo-led proposals, and contributing to Sales Finance processes and tools.Assemble financial analysis and actively contribute to building quarterly and annual business reviews with Sales leadership.Work on special projects as assigned, including initiatives to drive ongoing optimization of processes, systems, and financial governance.

Minimum Qualifications

• 4+ years experience in commercial finance or demand planning.
• College degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, or other quantitative field.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the telecom and wireless industry supporting device management programs.
• Strong team collaborator with the capacity for developing relationships and quickly becoming a trusted business partner who can influence effectively and challenge the status quo.
• Proven ability to problem solve ambiguous situations using sophisticated, non-linear, and occasionally incomplete data.
• Experience building business models and forecasts.
• Impeccable organization skills with the ability to run multiple, contending priorities in a dynamic, fast-paced sales environment.
• An innovative approach, with a high level of inherent curiosity, investing in personal knowledge to stay ahead of the curve in the industry.
• Exceptional verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Expert-level knowledge of Excel.
• Proficiency with Keynote, Business Objects, SQL, Tableau, and Slack.