Director Of Financial Planning And Analysis

The position:

Reporting to the VP Strategic and Commercial FP&A, the Director will be the finance business partner of Recochem’s operations in Canada and the US and will support the future expansion of the company to become the leader of transportation products in North America.

As a true business partner to the leadership team, you will be responsible to develop reporting tools and key performance indicators that will provide insights into the performance of the business and the execution of our key business initiatives.

You will support projects and new business ventures as we continue our development into new channels and product lines.

You will lead change and implement industry best practices and processes to support the overall strategy of the group.

Responsibilities

• Communicate financial performance and plans to senior management, shareholders, and other stakeholders through regular financial reports and presentations.
• Provide analysis of monthly financial results to the management team of the division including the interpretation of current month performance information as a predictive tool for attainment of full year performance expectations
• Create and manage effective financial and operational metric system to provide Senior Management Team with concise information regarding the company’s performance
• Build comprehensive models to support our growth initiatives and investment projects.
• Analyze and interpret financial performance data to identify trends, variances, and opportunities for improvement, and provide recommendations for action to senior management.
• Lead the annual budgeting and forecasting process, including the development of detailed financial models and the analysis of financial data to ensure accuracy and alignment with the company's overall strategy.
• Working with each business unit and individual managers to prepare budgets and consolidate them into one overall corporate budget.
• Support and update the company's long-term strategic plan, including identifying growth opportunities and assessing potential risks and benefits.
• Develop key performance indicators and monitoring tools highlighting performance of each facility of the Company. Provide recommendations for decision making purposes
• Perform profitability analysis by product, customer, channel down to the EBITDA and highlight low performers to business leaders so has to articulate profit enhancement measures.

• Support the roll-out of our BI platform and expand its usage across all areas of the business
• Be a key resource to prepare and support the migration to new ERP Microsoft D365 by implementing best-in-class finance and business processes

• Prepares all sensitive and confidential analysis as directed by the Senior Management team
• Build a strong analytical team to support the development of our US operations
• Performs necessary financial analysis and valuation models in support of company acquisition activities including: scenario modeling, financial due diligence analysis and integration plans.

Requirements:

• Relevant university degree with an accounting designation with preferably an accounting designation CPA
• 10+ years of financial analysis or accounting experience
• Highly analytical and detail-oriented
• Strong technical, analytical and systems skills; advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerBI would be an asset
• Experience with financial systems such as ERP or similar.
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to think strategically and creatively, with the ability to identify and evaluate new business opportunities.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate financial information to a non-financial audience in a clear and concise manner.
• Strong financial modeling and analysis skills, including experience with budgeting, forecasting and financial reporting.
• Exceptional organizational skills and ability to prioritize and handle multiple simultaneous assignments
• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to manage and develop a team of professionals.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in leading and managing people