Senior Analyst, Financial Planning And Analysis

JOIN OUR TEAM

You may have already stopped for coffee, refueling your car, or eating something on the go. Then you know what Couche-Tard is. Our mission at Couche-Tard is to make our customers' lives a little easier every day. We have grown into a successful global company with over 16,000 stores in 26 countries, serving over 6 million customers every day. In total, more than 120,000 people work in our stores and help desks.

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Department: Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Location : Laval (4204, boul. Industriel, Laval)

Hybrid mode : 3 days at the Laval office and 2 days remotely

Type of employment : Permanent, Full Time

THE ROLE

We are seeking a dynamic and strategically minded individual to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team as a Senior Analyst, FP&A. Working closely with the Data & Analytics (D&A) and various initiative teams, this role is critical in providing a clear financial lens to business ideas and analytical findings. Reporting to the Senior Business Controller, FP&A, this role offers an exciting opportunity to collaborate across departments, influence data-driven decisions, and contribute to the overall growth of the organization.

What You’ll Do

• Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance data-related processes, tools, and workflows. Collaborate with the Data & Analytics team to drive innovation and efficiency improvements.
• Forecasting and Budgeting: Integrate financial models to overall company Business Planning cycles. These include revenue, margins, OPEX and CAPEX implications.
• Request Prioritization: Analyze potential financial and strategic impacts of incoming D&A service requests to guide D&A prioritization efforts.
• Financial Modelling: Build financial models to map potential outcomes of business cases to financial statements (P&L, FCF, etc.). Identify and review key drivers and review assumptions with business partners. Collaborate with D&A team to plan analytics workstreams in order to test against financial models.
• Communication and Relationship Building: Effectively present financial models and analyses to internal stakeholders. Ensure financial and analytical concepts and findings are communicated into clear and concise messages utilizing various mediums.
• Financial Analysis: Utilize financial expertise to assess the financial impacts of projects and strategic initiatives through both financial data analysis and analytics findings from D&A team. Extrapolate conclusions to potential impact on overall company financials.

What You’ll Need

Education :

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting. CFA or CPA strongly preferred.

Experience :

• 5 years of experience in financial planning and analysis, business analysis, investment banking

Knowledge and skills:

• Communication Skills: Ability to convey complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Data Proficiency: Possess a good understanding of data concepts, analytics methodologies, and data visualization techniques. Leverage this knowledge to facilitate discussions between business and D&A teams.
• Innovative: Demonstrate ability to identify and drive process improvements and innovative solutions.
• Interpersonal Skills: Adept at building and nurturing relationships with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Financial Acumen: Strong understanding of finance and accounting principles, including financial modeling, forecasting and accounting concepts. Experience with financial planning and consolidation tools an asset (e.g. Longview, PDI, JDE).
• Software: Strong knowledge of Excel, PowerPoint and Smartsheet. Basic knowledge of data concepts, analytics tools, and visualization platforms (e.g., SQL, Power BI).

Language skills:

• Bilingualism is mandatory (French and English) in both writing and speaking.

WHY WORK WITH US

Our job openings in stores and offices allow you to grow quickly within a global company, while benefiting from a dynamic work environment that puts people first. Wherever you are in your journey, we have a place for you. Here are some of the attractive benefits we offer:

• Scholarship program available to the employee and the employee's children;
• Possibility to join a pension plan with employer contributions or a share purchase plan;
• A full range of benefits (medical, dental, etc.);
• Paid leave including vacation, sick and personal leave;
• Work in hybrid mode.
• Discounts for employees in stores and at many of our partners;
• Learning opportunities to develop new skills and grow professionally in a growing company;
• Alimentation Couche-Tard has been named one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2023;

INTERESTED?

Couche-Tard attaches great importance to diversity in the workplace and subscribes to the principle of employment equity by encouraging applications from designated groups, namely: women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.

We thank all candidates for their interest in this position; Only selected individuals will be contacted.

Couche-Tard / Circle K valorise la diversité et de l’inclusion et vise à créer un milieu de travail sain, accessible et gratifiant qui met en valeur la contribution unique de nos employés au succès de notre entreprise. En tant qu'employeur qui s'engage à respecter l'équité en matière d'emploi, nous encourageons les candidatures les plus diverses afin de pouvoir nous doter d’un effectif varié et représentatif de nos clients et des communautés que l’on sert. Des accommodements sont disponibles sur demande pour les candidats qui participent à tous les aspects du processus de sélection.

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