Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Hootsuite; Waterloo; Hybrid; CAD 78,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Hootsuite is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to support its growth by analyzing financial plans and forecasts. This role involves budgeting, reporting, and providing insights to stakeholders, with opportunities for remote or hybrid work arrangements. The ideal candidate will possess significant experience in financial analysis and a professional accounting designation.

Qualifications

• Significant relevant experience in FP&A or similar role.
• Professional accounting designation preferred.
• Strong knowledge of financial modeling and data analysis.

Responsibilities

• Develop tools and templates for budgeting and forecasting.
• Monitor actual results vs. budget and review variances.
• Provide financial analysis and support for strategic planning.

Skills

Financial modeling

Problem Solving

Collaboration and Teamwork

Open Communication

Customer Focus

Education

CPA

CFA

CBV

MBA

Tools

Google Sheets

Netsuite

Adaptive Insights

Job description

We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to help us support the next exciting phase in Hootsuite’s growth. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will gain a deep understanding of our business and be a key player in setting, monitoring and analyzing our financial plans and forecasts. You’ll partner with key stakeholders to provide insights into financial and operating trends, and financial support of business cases and decisions, and play a key role in the annual budgeting process. While working remotely or in a hybrid work arrangement, a blend of virtual (in accordance with Hootsuite’s distributed workforce strategy), and in Hootsuite’s Vancouver or Toronto office, you will report to the Senior Director, FP&A.

What You’ll Do

Budgeting and Forecasting & Business Partnering

• Leveraging deep systems and tool knowledge, develop tools and templates necessary to support and effectively consolidate departmental budgets and forecasts. Develop and implement related processes to build scalable solutions to support the next wave of Hootsuite’s growth
• Serve as a key business partner to assigned departments working directly with stakeholders to provide assistance with budgeting and reporting. Present findings and business recommendations in a simple way for stakeholders to understand their Operating expense spend
• Monitor actual results vs. budget and meet regularly with budget holders to review variances and changes to forecasts.
  
  

Management Reporting and Financial Planning System support

• Support recurring consolidated management, and board reporting, with clear narratives on variances and overall performance
• Develop/ maintain processes to report on Headcount / hiring plans against budget in a timely manner and ensure deviation from plan/ budget impact is communicated
• Support continuous improvement of Adaptive, Financial planning system and ensure ongoing audits/ control requirements are met
  
  

Decision Support / Finance and Business Advisory

• Serve as a key business partner working directly with stakeholders to provide financial analysis and support in regards to strategic planning, scenario modeling and development of business cases.
• Provide analysis, commentary and insights for inclusion in corporate performance reporting to executives, Board and investors.
• Drive continuous improvement in operational efficiency by identifying financial and operational control gaps and making recommendations to mitigate risks and improve internal systems and processes
• Perform other related duties as assigned
  
  

What You’ll Need

• Significant relevant experience in an FP&A business partnership capacity or similar role
• Professional accounting designation CPA, CFA, CBV or an MBA preferred
• Financial modeling and analyzing data and performance, particularly strong knowledge of Google Sheets and Netsuite.
• A strong foundation in Adaptive Insights, including knowledge of understanding/ writing formulas, and creating reports/dashboards preferred
• Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
• Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
  
  

Who You Are

• Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.
• Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.
• Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
• Intentional collaborator: You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
• Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
• Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
• Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
• Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
• Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.
  
  

Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.

Canada Pay Range For This Role
$78,400—$109,800 CAD