Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Home Depot; Toronto; On-site; CAD 70,000 - 79,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot Canada is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to influence decisions with financial data and insights, partnering with senior leadership and the CFO. You will deliver complex analyses and lead planning activities across the division.

You will translate business needs into reporting, build models, develop reporting methods, and collaborate with data scientists. Strong communication and mentoring skills are essential in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years of financial analyst/business insights experience.
• Bachelor's or master's degree in Finance, Business, or quantitative field.
• Learning mindset and willingness to mentor new analysts and senior analysts.
• Excellent oral and written communication.
• Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and financial modeling.
• Ability to work in a dynamic, complex, fast-paced environment, to adapt quickly and to manage changing priorities and deadlines.
• Self-motivated and pro-active, with respect to both managing workload and professional development.
• A flexible attitude and approach to business solutions.
• Comfortable presenting in front of a small and large audience.
• Working knowledge of MS Office.
• Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL).
• Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau).
• Experience utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems.
• Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python) considered an asset.

Responsibilities

• Act as finance partner and CFO-like advisor to management and stakeholders.
• Prepare and present complex financial analyses for senior management.
• Lead planning activities in partnership with the finance teams and internal stakeholders to support division’s strategic planning.
• Provide insights to drive business actions through data-driven recommendations.
• Develop and implement process improvements and share best practices.
• Collaborate with data scientists and translate business requirements into analytics needs.
• Build algorithms and models on large datasets to generate business insights.
• Support data science projects with effective analysis to solve business problems.
• Translate business strategies into relevant data analyses to support goals.
• Continually develop analytics knowledge and methods.

Skills

Financial analysis

Financial modeling

Data analysis

SQL

BigQuery

Tableau

Python

Excel

Communication

Presentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Business/Quantitative field

Master's degree in Finance/Business/Quantitative field

Tools

SQL

Google BigQuery

Tableau

Python

Job description

Are you someone who thrives on helping others succeed, enjoys making an impact, and takes pride in guiding customers to the right solutions for their projects? If you’re also naturally curious and eager to keep learning, consider starting or growing your career with us at The Home Depot.

Do you have a learning mindset? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment that doesn’t settle for the status quo? Would working in a highly collaborative and relationship driven company that values respect for everyone excite you? Look no further than Home Depot Canada.

We are the trusted finance partners working collaboratively to identify problems, find efficacies and drive results. As a senior financial analyst, you are the key person influencing decisions for key business leaders through financial data and insights, and serve as the main point of contact to provide findings and recommendations to our senior leadership team and CFO.

responsible for:

• Acting as the CFO for their business working directly with management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations and develop reports to drive the business
• Prepare and present complex financial analysis in a meaningful, concise and user friendly manner for senior management
• Ability to think strategically , leading semi-annual planning activities in partnership with the other finance teams and internal business stakeholders to support division’s strategic planning
• Influencing and driving business actions through value added analysis/insights to both technical and non-technical audience
• Providing thought leadership and recommendations for identifying and implementing process improvements
• Sharing and implementing best practices among the team and the finance group
• Represent functional area as an analytics & insights professional and key resource; build positive and productive working partnerships
• Oversee and/or independently perform tasks from end to end
• Execute on data requests accurately and within a timely manner
• Act as a bridge to translate business requirements to analytics and reporting needs for a given domain
• Applying your creative problem solving skills to build new and supplemental reporting methods
• Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights and identify areas of business opportunities
• Supports data science projects by conducting effective analysis to solve business problems
• Consults with Data Scientist or Sr. Data Scientist on appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytical methodologies
• Apply understanding of respective business strategies to produce relevant and substantial data analysis to support business goals and objectives
• Continually develop skills and expertise in data analytics concepts and methodologies

What you will need to be successful in this role:

• For internals, must fulfill minimum time-in-position (1 year) and performance management code requirements (M+)
• 3 to 7 years of Financial Analyst/Financial business partner/Business Insights experience
• A Bachelors’ or a Masters’ degree in Finance, Business, a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc.) or equivalent work experience
• Learning mindset and willingness to mentor new analysts and senior analysts
• Excellent oral and written communication
• A Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and financial modeling
• Ability to work in a dynamic, complex, fast-paced environment, to adapt quickly and to manage changing priorities and deadlines
• Self-motivated and pro-active, with respect to both managing workload and professional development
• A Flexible attitude and approach to business solutions.
• Comfortable presenting in front of a small and large audience

• Working knowledge of MS Office
• Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
• Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
• Experience utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
• Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python) considered an asset

The pay range for this position is between $70,400.00 - $79,100.00