Financial Analyst, FP&A

We’re looking for an analytical, detail-driven professional to join our Financial Planning & Analysis team. In this role, you will support operational finance across our production sites, with a focus on cost and waste reporting, standard costing, site productivity analysis, and the monthly and quarterly forecast cycle. You will work directly with transactional data from Microsoft Dynamics 365 and build the reporting that Plant Managers, Operations leadership and the Senior Leadership Team rely on to manage performance.

This is a hands-on, build-oriented role suited to someone who is rigorous about where a number comes from. You will also provide analytical support to the Commercial and Corporate finance teams on a scheduled basis, with workload and priorities set by your direct manager.

Responsibilities:

• Produce site and department level productivity reporting covering labour, materials and overhead absorption against spend and production volumes, for use by Site General Managers and the Senior Leadership Team
• Perform monthly and quarterly variance analysis, investigating root causes across material, labour and overhead, and preparing supporting documentation for review
• Maintain multi-level bills of material and standard cost inputs, including labour routings, rate tables and material standards, ensuring they reflect current production processes
• Prepare weekly waste reporting package, including extraction and validation of inventory ledger and waste GL data
• Support the annual budget, quarterly forecast and long-range planning cycles, including preparation and reconciliation of site level P&Ls
• Prepare supporting schedules and analysis for quarterly Board and Senior Leadership reporting, including inventory position by product category
• Build and maintain financial models in which each figure is formula driven and traceable to source records such as work orders, bills of material and ledger detail
• Automate and streamline recurring reporting through Excel, Power Query and Power BI to improve turnaround time and reduce manual handling
• Complete ad hoc analysis and data requests supporting Operations, Commercial and Corporate finance stakeholders

Required Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce or a related field
• 2–4 years of relevant experience in financial planning and analysis, cost accounting or operational finance, in manufacturing or consumer packaged goods
• Enrolment in or progress toward a CPA or CFA designation is considered an asset
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including lookup functions, pivot tables, Power Query and handling of large transactional data sets
• Experience extracting and validating data from an ERP system; Microsoft Dynamics 365 experience is considered an asset
• Working knowledge of standard costing, bills of material, work order reporting and variance analysis
• Experience with Power BI or a comparable data visualization tool is considered an asset
• Practical experience using AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT to accelerate data preparation, analysis and documentation, with the judgment to validate outputs against source data before relying on them
• Strong attention to detail and a disciplined approach to building auditable, formula driven analysis that traces back to source data
• Ability to manage competing priorities across multiple stakeholders and consistently meet recurring reporting deadlines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results to non-finance partners
• Experience in cannabis or another regulated manufacturing environment is considered an asset