Position Title: Lead Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

Client Details:

The company is one of the country’s leading providers of home and community health care services and is a Canadian-owned company. With over 100 locations across the country, including home care offices, pharmacies and infusion clinics, our company has more than 13,000 staff members and provides care to over 350,000 clients. The company has also been a recipient of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies award since 2006 and is a Platinum Member.

Role Summary:

The Lead Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for developing and managing the planning, reporting and analytical tools and processes necessary to successfully support business leaders. This position will provide operational and financial data analytics for optimizing current business segments, as well as financial projections. The Lead Senior Financial Analyst is charged with ensuring that accurate financial results are reported for Branch Operations, that sound business acumen and key financial targets are applied to decisions and that controls are in place that ensures the integrity of reported results and safeguards the assets of the Firm Healthcare Division.

Key Job Responsibilities:

Provide financial and operational analysis to improve decision-making for both internal stakeholders and the Executive Leadership Committee.
Develop and monitor metrics focused on P&L, Balance Sheet and free cash flow.
Validate actual operating results against pro forma assumptions contained in the original business case for each project.
Ability to work with non-financial managers, ensuring that they understand the financial aspects of their branch.
To understand the financial drivers of assigned Branches and be able to conduct insightful analysis and discussion with Area Directors on improving Financial Performance
Provide decision support and have ownership and take ownership for forward thinking business planning, ongoing line of business information analysis, competitive and industry trend analysis, business metrics analysis and business performance measurement.
Work with Business leads to gather inputs & key assumptions for planning and assessing new business opportunities.
Validate actual operating results against pro forma assumptions contained in the original business case for each project.
Analyze and identify root cause on key variances. Take ownership in reaching out to business leas to provide recommendations on next steps.
Ad hoc financial analysis, including development of KPI’s for the businesses, targets setting and business cases.
Have the ability to highlight and escalate issues to Management as required.
Define and communicate the evaluation of corrective action plans to ensure financial targets are met.
Identify key business drivers and track performance against these measures.
Work closely with the Accounting team to ensure reliability and accuracy of financial reporting and that compliance requirements are met.
Preparation, review and reporting of the financial performance for branch operations ensuring best practices and performance objectives are achieved.
Provide business analysis and reporting to key stakeholders.
Lead, Assist and Participate in continuous process improvements including internal controls.
Special Projects and Analysis.
Presentation of Financial Results to Senior Management.
Manage reporting of branch performance in a complex de-centralized environment for multiple businesses and business lines requiring in-depth analysis to optimize performance.
Must be able to interpret ideas and provide financial data to support those ideas.
Must ensure that results are stated accurately, interpreted correctly and that trends/issues are acted upon.
Ability to understand business concepts/practices and turn them into feasible projects. A significant amount of time will be spent in this area as we look to streamline and optimize current tools and processes.
Review and assess quarterly projections for the current year and annual operating plans. Must be able to assess the impact of manager spending decisions, market conditions, and economic impacts.
Ability to manage multiple projects with varying levels of complexity and business risk.
Prepare and present financial data to the senior leadership teams. Must be able to interpret the needs of the group and present concise data to meet those needs. Comfort around senior management is a key skill set.
Participate in quality activities and continuous improvement initiatives in keeping with the company's Quality Management System.

Location:
Mississauga

Salary Range:
Competitive - Based on Experience plus Bonus (6%)

Requirements:

University Education or equivalent is a must in Business
Accounting designation (CPA) or at minimum candidate is working towards it
3+ years’ financial analysis & reporting experience with some experience supporting commercial business partners
Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and financial modeling required. Working knowledge of ERP systems (Vena) an asset
Strong interpersonal and communication skills to interact effectively with the Senior Management. Strong leadership and influencing skills required to deliver national objectives in a de-centralized structure.
Demonstrated ability to develop and implement improvements in controls, procedures, reporting, and value added analysis.
Detail oriented with strong analytical and problem solving skills.
The working conditions for this position are predominantly in an office environment. The employee may be required to travel domestically across Canada and overnight accommodations may be required.
It is expected that travel will be less than 5%.
Exposure to Pharma or HealthCare is an asset.

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