Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

Reporting to the VP Finance, the Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst will bring their expertise in finance, financial modelling and analytics to clearly communicate insights to senior leadership members/stakeholders while also bringing forth solutions and actionable recommendations. The successful candidate will come from a strong manufacturing background (food processing preferred) and will demonstrate experience in collaborating with different departments to deliver quality financial analysis. 

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Develop financial models, projections and analysis to support strategic initiatives.
• Support internal teams in understanding and analyzing the drivers for improving profitability and optimizing working capital.
• Analyze financial performance across all aspects of the business, including sales, finance, production, supply chain, procurement, product development and logistics.
• Manage and deliver various weekly/monthly/quarterly reports, analysis and business reviews alongside finance and executive team members.
• Create and oversee financial and operational reporting and tools to assist with the monitoring and analysis of important financial and operational metrics.
• Partner with internal stakeholders in developing budgets and monitoring performance against budget.
• Manage and lead the development and analysis of rolling financial forecasts.
• Provide financial solutions and recommendations to senior leadership team with a clear focus on continuous improvement.
• Support organizational initiatives to enhance and grow data driven decision making.
• Collaborate with other departments in validating and sourcing data.
• Develop and maintain documentation for system and operational users.
• Other job duties as required.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting or Business
• A minimum of 4 years of financial analysis experience required, with a manufacturing and/or food processing background preferred.
• Professional designation (CPA) is preferred but not required.
• Strong communication skills, verbal and written.
• Team player with exceptional ability to establish and maintain quality relationships.
• Strong work ethic and a demonstrated ability to deliver results within agreed to timelines.
• Highly developed experience with financial modeling and manipulating large amounts of data.
• Demonstrated ability to understand data relationships, identify trends and analyze variances.
• Expert level skills using Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
• Experience working with business intelligence (BI) tools is strongly preferred (e.g. Power BI, Tableau, etc)
• Experience working with forecasting and budgeting software is considered an asset.

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