Financial Reporting Analyst, FP&A
📍 Montreal, QC | Hybrid
We’re seeking a Financial Reporting Analyst to support financial reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and analysis. This is an accounting-focused role for someone who is organized, proactive, and comfortable taking ownership of detailed financial work.
What you’ll do
- Support monthly forecast cycles by updating models, validating assumptions, analyzing variances, and documenting processes.
- Prepare actual-versus-forecast expense analysis and support reconciliation across business units, cost centres, and expense categories.
- Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to review expense allocations, employee mapping, and cost assumptions.
- Support annual budget development by distributing templates, consolidating submissions, checking them for completeness, and following up on deadlines.
- Prepare management analyses comparing budgets and forecasts with prior-period results, and model planning scenarios.
- Maintain headcount plans by tracking approved budgets, committed costs, remaining funding, and approved changes.
- Support recurring revenue and billings forecasts by gathering inputs, updating projections, validating assumptions, and explaining key changes.
- Help align revenue and billing metrics with internal definitions, including documenting differences and supporting historical and forecast updates.
- Identify opportunities to improve reporting and automate variance analysis.
- Prepare clear supporting documentation and presentations for management review.
What you’ll bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field.
- At least 3 years of experience in finance, accounting, FP&A, or a related area.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel and financial modelling skills.
- Advanced PowerPoint skills.
- Experience with SAP and BPC.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and reconciliation skills.
- Excellent organization and attention to detail.
- A proactive, self-directed approach and the ability to take ownership of deliverables.
- Confidence working with diverse internal stakeholders and presenting financial findings.
Preferred: Experience with Power BI, forecasting, budgeting, expense allocation, headcount planning, or recurring revenue and billings analysis.