Financial Analyst III
- Ottawa, ON
- Permanent
- Temps-plein
- Analyze transactional and operational data to identify anomalies, recommend accruals and reversals, ensuring accurate reporting.
- Develop, standardize, and improve analyses and reports to share business and financial insights, supporting monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting and budgeting processes.
- Build and update dashboards, PowerPoint presentations, and other business intelligence tools through data mining in various systems.
- Independently investigate data issues, ask pertinent questions, identify root causes, and collaborate with functional business partners to improve data quality.
- Collaborate with business partners to generate key assumptions for decision support, conducting ad hoc data analysis to identify business insights.
- Analyze the profitability of products and services, identify P&L drivers, risks, and opportunities, and drive actions.
- Translate business inputs into financial assumptions, building and maintaining forecast models to project future business trends, including revenue, new product launches, pricing, operating expenses, and CAPEX.
- Proactively adopt new systems and tools to improve analytics capability and accuracy.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in finance.
- Prior experience in a large global company and highly matrixed organization.
- Proficient user of systems such as SAP, Hyperion, Hyperion Planning, Power BI, Cognos, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to summarize and present information concisely and effectively.
- Attention to detail, consistently delivering high-quality work, with the ability to learn quickly, meet deadlines, and multitask in a fast-paced environment.
- Good understanding of business processes and operations & financial controls, with the ability to identify control weaknesses and recommend mitigation actions.