Financial Analyst, FP&A
- Toronto, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- Approximately 3-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, or a related area.
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
An established organization is seeking a Financial Analyst, FP&A to join its finance team. This role is well suited to an analytical finance professional who enjoys working with complex financial information, building meaningful reports, and partnering with stakeholders across the business.
Working closely with FP&A leadership, the Financial Analyst will support financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and performance analysis. The role will bring together financial and operational information from multiple areas of the organization and help turn that data into clear insights for management. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who enjoys improving reporting processes, working with large datasets, and developing a deeper understanding of business performance.
What You’ll Do
This opportunity provides broad exposure to the FP&A function, including financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, modelling, cash flow analysis, and business partnering.
You’ll work with financial and operational stakeholders across different areas of the organization, giving you the opportunity to understand how business activities translate into financial performance and management decisions.
The role also provides meaningful exposure to process improvement, reporting automation, and financial systems initiatives, making it a strong opportunity for an analyst looking to expand their technical capabilities and take on greater ownership within FP&A.
Working closely with FP&A leadership, the Financial Analyst will support financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, and performance analysis. The role will bring together financial and operational information from multiple areas of the organization and help turn that data into clear insights for management. This is a hands-on opportunity for someone who enjoys improving reporting processes, working with large datasets, and developing a deeper understanding of business performance.
What You’ll Do
- Coordinate recurring financial reporting and consolidate information from multiple business units and operational teams.
- Collect, review, and validate financial and operational data to ensure reporting is complete and accurate.
- Maintain financial models, reporting templates, and supporting schedules used across the organization.
- Perform detailed variance analysis comparing actual results against budgets, forecasts, and previous periods.
- Investigate significant financial variances and work with business stakeholders to understand underlying drivers.
- Support the annual budgeting process and take ownership of assigned planning and reporting activities.
- Assist with periodic forecasting and update financial models as business and operational assumptions change.
- Prepare analysis related to operating expenses, capital expenditures, cash flow, liquidity, and overall financial performance.
- Support cash flow forecasting and working capital analysis.
- Develop financial models and analyses to support operational initiatives and management decision-making.
- Identify financial trends, potential risks, and opportunities through detailed data analysis.
- Partner with finance and operational stakeholders to gather information and support their reporting and analysis needs.
- Respond to ad hoc financial requests and provide analysis to support management decisions.
- Contribute to improvements in financial systems, reporting processes, and cost-monitoring capabilities.
- Identify opportunities to automate recurring reporting activities and reduce manual processes.
- Provide backup support for key FP&A reporting responsibilities when required.
- Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline.
- Approximately 3-5 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial reporting, or a related area.
- CPA designation or progress toward a CPA is considered an asset but is not required.
- Previous experience within the mining, natural resources, industrial, or another operationally complex environment is considered an asset.
- Strong experience with budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and management reporting.
- Demonstrated financial modelling skills and the ability to work confidently with large and complex datasets.
- Advanced spreadsheet skills, including experience with data manipulation, lookup functions, pivot reporting, and analytical tools.
- Experience working with enterprise financial systems or ERP platforms.
- Exposure to business intelligence, visualization, or financial reporting tools is considered an asset.
- Strong presentation skills with the ability to communicate financial information clearly to different audiences.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
- Ability to independently manage multiple priorities and deadlines while collaborating effectively across departments.
This opportunity provides broad exposure to the FP&A function, including financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, modelling, cash flow analysis, and business partnering.
You’ll work with financial and operational stakeholders across different areas of the organization, giving you the opportunity to understand how business activities translate into financial performance and management decisions.
The role also provides meaningful exposure to process improvement, reporting automation, and financial systems initiatives, making it a strong opportunity for an analyst looking to expand their technical capabilities and take on greater ownership within FP&A.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Coordinate financial reporting and consolidate, validate, and analyze financial and operational data, including budget, forecast, and actual results. Maintain models and reporting processes, support budgeting and forecasting, analyze cash flow and performance, and provide insights to stakeholders and management.
Requirements
Requires a bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or a related discipline, with approximately 3–5 years of relevant experience. Candidates should bring strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, financial modeling, spreadsheet, and data analysis skills; CPA progress and experience in operationally complex industries are assets.
Skills
- Financial Planning And Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Management Reporting
- Data Analysis
- Advanced Spreadsheet Skills
- Cash Flow Analysis
- Working Capital Analysis
- Enterprise Financial Systems
- Business Intelligence
- Stakeholder Collaboration
- Process Improvement
- Reporting Automation
- Presentation Skills
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Financial Planning And Analysis
- Financial Reporting
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Management Reporting
- Operating Expenses
- Capital Expenditures
- Cash Flow
- Liquidity
- Working Capital
- Financial Performance
- Operational Data
- Large Datasets
- Advanced Spreadsheets
- Data Manipulation
- Lookup Functions
- Pivot Reporting
- Enterprise Financial Systems
- ERP Platforms
- Business Intelligence
- Data Visualization
- Reporting Automation
- Process Improvement
- CPA
- Corporate Finance
- Mining
- Natural Resources
- Stakeholder Collaboration