Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Bilinguallink; Ajax; On-site; CAD 95,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

DC Pension matching: 4%

Health and Dental benefits

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A in the Greater Toronto Area. You will develop financial models, support annual budgets, and present to executives.

The role requires strong FP&A experience, CPA preferred, and advanced Excel/PowerPoint skills, with close collaboration across Finance, Operations and Supply Chain. You will help improve forecasting accuracy, produce margin analyses, and help implement ERP reporting capabilities to drive strategic decision-making and

Qualifications

• Progressive FP&A experience in a complex organization.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills for modelling and presentations.
• Ability to collaborate across Finance, Operations and Supply Chain.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain in-year financial models reflecting production volatilities and overhead absorption.
• Lead and support annual budgets and rolling forecasts (P&L, cash flow, working capital).
• Produce margin bridges and cost variance analysis to aid monthly reviews.
• Collaborate with accounting to ensure timely reporting of results and costing data.
• Define ERP reporting requirements and design dashboards for key metrics.
• Provide strategic decision support to Operations, Supply Chain and stakeholders.
• Identify risks, opportunities and actions to improve forecasting accuracy.

Skills

FP&A

Excel

PowerPoint

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting

CPA preferred

Job description

About the Company

Our client is a fast-scaling manufacturing organization, and they are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to join their team!

Why Work Here

• Extremely dynamic and inclusive company culture
• Incredible Career Development: offers meaningful progression opportunities, a strong leadership development focus, and the company has a philosophy of “hiring to promote within.”
• DC Pension matching: 4%
• Comprehensive Health and Dental benefits

About the Opportunity

• Develop and maintain the in-year financial models reflecting production volume, yield, scrap, labor/machine rates, and overhead absorption.
• Support and / or lead the preparation of annual budgets and rolling forecasts (P&L, cash flow, working capital), as well as presentation materials for executive audiences.
• Produce margin bridges and conduct cost variance analysis for key performance drivers (e.g. price, volume, mix, labor/efficiency, overhead absorption) to support monthly performance reviews.
• Collaborate with accounting and cost accounting teams to ensure accurate, timely reporting of financial results and inventory/costing data.
• Support ERP implementation and maintenance by defining reporting requirements, validating data, and designing dashboards for operational and financial metrics.
• Be a key point of contact and provide strategic decision support to Operations, Supply Chain, and Corporate Stakeholders.
• Partner with business groups to understand drivers and assumptions to improve forecasting accuracy as well as identify risks, opportunities and potential actions.
• Continuously evaluate and implement improvements to processes and analysis capabilities.
• Ad hoc analysis and projects, including margin and ROI analysis and board materials.
• Foster strong working relationships across the businesses and work proactively to identify opportunities for finance to act as a strategic business partner.
• Other duties as required.

About You

• University Degree, with a focus in Finance or Accounting.
• Accounting designation, CPA preferred.
• 3+ years of progressively responsible, hands‑on FP&A experience in a complex organization.
• Strong customer focus with excellent relationship building and a collaborative working style.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, including the ability to communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Advanced MS Excel and PowerPoint skills

Salary Range

$95,000 – $105,000 / year

This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Vaco/Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail].

Vaco by Highspring also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

Representation Notice

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

For residents of Ontario, Canada: Based on Highspring’s discussions with its Client, Highspring’s understanding is that this position for employment is a current vacancy (either through Highspring as a contractor or with the client directly).

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here (https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.