Senior FP&A Analyst – Merchandising Insights

Loblaw; Brampton; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits

Top Employer recognition

Job summary

Loblaw Companies Limited in Canada is seeking a Finance Analyst to support the Food Merchandising business unit. You will build and track forecasts and budgets, develop models, and provide data-driven insights to improve financial performance in collaboration with BU and regional finance teams.

The role requires 3-5 years of finance experience, an accounting/finance designation, advanced Excel and BI tool skills (MicroStrategy), and experience with SAP, SQL/SAS, and Teradata.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3-5 years of Finance experience.
• Ideal candidate would have (or be pursuing) an accounting/finance designation.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and experience with business intelligence (BI) tools such as MicroStrategy.
• SAP experience preferred.
• SQL/SAS and Teradata experience is an asset.

Responsibilities

• Manage the build and tracking of Sales, Margin and Other Income forecasts and budgets.
• Create weekly and periodic reporting of financial performance and analyze results to identify emerging trends or opportunities.
• Collaborate with category teams, business leads, and finance partners to identify opportunities to improve reporting and forecasting.
• Develop financial models and analyze results to enhance forecast accuracy for business units.
• Consolidate large amounts of complex information into simple and easy to understand reports.
• Perform deep dive analysis and work with business partners to resolve complex financial issues.
• Perform variance analysis on P&L results and provide financial insights to the business leads.
• Ad-hoc reporting and investigation of performance anomalies.
• Liaise with other functional areas within the organization to co-ordinate cross-functional analyses and data accumulation.
• Participate in special projects and tracking of strategic initiatives.

Skills

Advanced Excel

BI tools (MicroStrategy)

Financial analysis

Forecasting

Education

Accounting/Finance designation

Tools

SAP

SQL

Teradata

SAS

Job description

Loblaw Companies Limited in Canada is seeking a Finance Analyst to support the Food Merchandising business unit. You will build and track forecasts and budgets, develop models, and provide data-driven insights to improve financial performance in collaboration with BU and regional finance teams.

The role requires 3-5 years of finance experience, an accounting/finance designation, advanced Excel and BI tool skills (MicroStrategy), and experience with SAP, SQL/SAS, and Teradata.