Senior Analyst, Financial Planning And Analysis -Renewables (Analyst Iii)

At Algonquin-Liberty, we hire passionate people who care about doing the right thing for our customers. We are entrepreneurial, creative, and outcome-focused. Here, your natural talent and achievements will flourish in an inclusive environment of teamwork, trust and continuous learning. We are always pursuing excellence to exceed our ambitions goals, rewarding both the goal outcome and how we achieve it.
Purpose
A chance to make an impact in achieving the company’s success by providing financial leadership, supporting key strategic projects – all while building effective relationship and influencing decision making across the team. The ideal candidate will develop within the role and seek progressively challenging responsibilities. This role will actively support business development and corporate departments by providing detailed and accurate financial analysis, updating the short- and long-term forecasts, preparing the annual budget and senior management reporting.
Accountabilities
Key responsibilities:

• Tackle the unfamiliar by participating in new processes setup, identifying and resolving issues related to new activities
• Act as partner to the business, perform ad hoc analysis and other requests to support business activities and decisions
• Provide comprehensive analysis on the financial results, explaining variances in actuals versus budgeted and forecast recommending corrective actions to influence future results
• Develop new analysis and KPIs to enhance understanding of company performance yielding new insights. Assist in process improvements for variance in financial reporting
• Provide analysis to support the writing of the quarterly Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A)
• Work with business groups across the organizations to better understand financial results as well as risks and opportunities to current forecast. Effectively communicate these findings to the team
• Coordinate and prepare monthly management financial reports (P&L, variance reports, balance sheets statements, capital expenditures and KPIs) by consolidating imports from, and working with business units and other areas of finance. Ensure all financial information is accurate, appropriately disclosed and supports financial statement presentation and disclosure.

Budgeting and Forecasting:

• Assist in providing explanations and support during the quarterly audits
• Build and maintain supplementary models to support the forecast process in coordination with business unit leaders
• Work on assigned portfolios, complete quarterly reforecasts (including the annual budget) based on the long-term models in SAC

Reporting System:

• Provide financial analysis and business decision support for ad hoc projects
• Perform periodic reconciliation of the planning tool data to the company ERP
• Assist in maintaining data input templates and reports for users

Other Responsibilities:

• Provide financial support and analysis for various ad hoc projects and bridge results between scenarios
• Deliver meaningful insights into business performance and communicate to senior management
• Assist in the development of SAP SAC reports and dashboards, implementation of new functionality
• Attend monthly operations meetings and variance meetings to discuss Financial and Operational results
• Ensure all processes are well documented and appropriate controls are in place

Education and Experience

• Can demonstrate exceptional attention to details and not afraid to challenge the status quo
• Highly motivated to develop new skills and can demonstrate a commitment to continuous improvement
• CPA designation is preferred
• Minimum 2 - 3 years of experience in an analytical role, experience dealing with senior individuals of both financial and non-financial nature is preferred
• Ability to work under pressure and meet strict deadlines
• Excellent project management, multi-tasking and organizational skill
• Experience with SAC / Clarity 7 considered an asset
• Advanced PowerPoint skills
• University degree in business or commerce
• Advanced knowledge of MS Excel is mandatory (Pivot tables, Lookups, simple Macros, Modeling, graphs)

Our purpose is sustaining energy and water for life, and it is demonstrated in everything we do as a business and as an employee team.
Our Mission
We provide safe, secure, reliable, cost-effective and sustainable energy and water solutions. Our mission is how we create value as an organization—it is what drives us every day to fulfill our purpose.
Our Vision
We better the lives of our customers and communities. Our vision is what we see as possible. It's where we aspire to be, what we want to achieve and how we'll make animpact. It guides and keeps us on the right path as we work towards fulfilling our purposes.
Our Guiding Principles

• Entrepreneurial
• Continuous learning
• Teamwork
• Integrity
• Owner mindset
• Outcome focused
• Customer Centric

What We Offer
Collaborative environment with a genuine flexible working policy
Share purchase/match plan
A defined contribution savings plan
Leadership Development Program
Volunteer paid days off
Employee Assistance Program
Achievement fund
Group Benefit Plan
Variety of Health & Wellness programs
Discount and Perks program
We are focused on building a diverse and inclusive workforce. If you are excited about this role and are not confident you meet all the qualification requirements, we encourage you to apply to investigate the opportunity further.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value each person's unique background, diversity, experiences, perspectives and talents.
Full participation of all employees in a safe, healthy and respectful environment is key to individual and company success. We are committed to fully utilizing the abilities of all our employees and expect each of our employees to honour this commitment in their daily responsibilities.