Interim FP&A Consultant - Senior Financial Analyst
- Kitchener, ON, Canada
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- Experience
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Financial Analysis, Commercial Finance, or Accounting
- Posting language
- English
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Original job description
Our client, a growing global manufacturing organization, is seeking an experienced Interim FP&A Consultant to step into a critical finance leadership support role during a key transition period.
This assignment requires a hands-on finance professional who can quickly take ownership of revenue reporting, complex reconciliations, commission calculations, and month-end analysis with minimal onboarding. The successful consultant will serve as a key business partner to Finance Leadership and operational stakeholders while ensuring the integrity and accuracy of reporting throughout a period of organizational change.
This is an excellent opportunity for a consultant who enjoys solving complex financial challenges, working with large datasets, and making an immediate impact.
In the first several weeks, the primary focus will be:
- Owning monthly FP&A reporting and supporting an accelerated close process
- Leading complex revenue reconciliations between the ERP, shipment reports, sales reports, and general ledger
- Managing detailed commission calculations across multiple sales arrangements and international stakeholders
- Consolidating and validating high-volume ERP data to ensure reporting accuracy
- Preparing month-end accruals for commissions, freight, and labour-related costs
- Investigating variances and proactively identifying reporting discrepancies
- Supporting Finance leadership with key business and operational reporting
As the engagement progresses, the consultant will also support:
- Budgeting and forecasting activities
- Cost centre reporting and analysis
- Revenue and profitability reporting
- R&D spend analysis
- Financial process improvements and reporting enhancements
What We're Looking For
Required Experience
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP&A, Financial Analysis, Commercial Finance, or Accounting
- Strong technical accounting knowledge including: Revenue recognition; Month-end close; Accrual accounting; General ledger reconciliations; Financial statement analysis
- Demonstrated experience performing complex revenue reconciliations
- Experience calculating and validating commission programs and sales incentive structures
- Advanced Excel skills, including working with large data-set manipulation and analysis
- Experience working with ERP systems and large volumes of transactional data
- Proven ability to operate independently with limited direction and tight deadlines
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving capabilities
- Strong communication skills and confidence interacting with both finance and non-finance stakeholders
Qualifications
- CPA designation or equivalent professional accounting credential
- Manufacturing, industrial, distribution, or product-based industry experience
- Multi-entity reporting experience
- Commercial finance or revenue analysis experience
- Exposure to ERP systems such as SAP, Infor CSI/SyteLine, Oracle, Dynamics, or similar platforms
- Previous consulting, interim, or project-based finance engagements
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Responsibilities
Own monthly FP&A reporting and support an accelerated close, including revenue reconciliations, commission calculations, ERP data validation, accruals, and variance investigations. Partner with finance leadership and operational stakeholders, and contribute to budgeting, forecasting, cost centre and profitability analysis, R&D spend analysis, and process improvements.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of progressive experience in FP&A, financial analysis, commercial finance, or accounting, with strong technical accounting knowledge and experience in complex revenue reconciliations and commission programs. Candidates should have advanced Excel and ERP data skills, be able to work independently under tight deadlines, and hold a CPA or equivalent credential; manufacturing or related industry experience is preferred.
Skills
- FP&A Reporting
- Revenue Reconciliation
- Revenue Recognition
- Commission Calculations
- Month-End Close
- Accrual Accounting
- General Ledger Reconciliation
- Advanced Excel
- ERP Data Analysis
- Budgeting and Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Cost Centre Reporting
- Profitability Analysis
- R&D Spend Analysis
- Stakeholder Communication
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Consulting
- Manufacturing
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- FP&A
- Financial Analysis
- Commercial Finance
- Accounting
- Revenue Recognition
- Month-End Close
- Accrual Accounting
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Revenue Reconciliations
- Commission Programs
- Sales Incentives
- Advanced Excel
- ERP Systems
- SAP
- Infor CSI
- SyteLine
- Oracle
- Dynamics
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Cost Centre Reporting
- Revenue Analysis
- Profitability Analysis
- R&D Spend Analysis
- Manufacturing
- Multi-Entity Reporting
- Transactional Data
- Financial Process Improvement