Financial Analyst Jobs

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Reporting to the Controller, the Financial Analyst’s mission is to support his or her manager in making strategic business decisions and establishing his or her group's business strategy in order to contribute to the achievement of financial and operational objectives. You thus use your expertise to produce the statutory reports and analyses required to prepare your business unit’s financial statements, while ensuring the completeness and reliability of the information produced and communicated. Finally, you make relevant recommendations to optimize processes and implement business strategies, thus actively contributing to your sector’s operational and administrative efficiency.

Individual responsibilities

• Participated in annual Budget.
• Monitor and analyze monthly operating results against Plan and forecast.
• Business Partner with Procurement department
• Participated in High Management presentation update.
• Performing monthly income statement variance analysis, more specifically related to Gross Margin.
• Pricing verification and validation
• Participation in Business Cases evaluation
• Assessing current accounting operations, offering recommendations for improvement and implementation of new processes.
• Proactive monthly validation of Sales, Cost of Sales & Inventory.
• Material Volume validation
• Assist in reconciliation and analysis of large amounts of data using advance level Excel skills.

Education

• University Degree or College Diploma designation required. Currently enrolled in the CPA program will be beneficial.

Experiences and strengths

• Excellent English & French oral and written skills, able to communicate clear at all levels of organization.
• Ability to fit in a Dynamic environment and be a team player.
• Knowledge of computers databases Advance Excel (SAP, Elemos, Khalix, PowerPoint will be an asset)
• Knowledge of GAAP and IFRS sufficient to evaluate financial reports.
• Minimum 2 to 5 years’ experience in finance.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, know when to ask for help when required.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet the deadlines.

Core competencies defined for this job

Advisory role

Perseverance

Initiative

Accountability

Rigour

Action-based focus

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