Job Description
Job Duties/Accountabilities:
- Collaborate with Marketing & Sales team to understand pricing strategy and financial implications
- Enhance, build, maintain, and update financial models for Budgets, Forecasts, Outlooks, and Weekly Flash updates; including in-depth understanding and analysis of key metrics such as cash discounting, product revenue & margin rates, and vendor funding
- Learn Alteryx, SAS, Teradata, MicroStrategy to build automation for reporting and forecasting processes
- Provide weekly updates to Directors & Executives on current month results vs targets (Weekly Flash)
- Provide monthly updates to Directors for balance of year results vs targets (Budget, Forecasts, Outlooks)
- Learn Wireless & Mobile Phone business in Canada and create business story that is aligned with pricing and business drivers
- Strong understanding of IFRS 15 and basic accounting principles
- Complete monthly/quarterly variance analysis and provide P&Ls with key metrics to Finance & Business
- Build decks and presentations for budgets, forecasts, and outlooks and present to Director team
- Partner with cross-functional Finance and BI teams to improve existing reporting and datasets
- Assist in financial deep dives and special projects in order to provide enhanced, value-added financial analysis & insight to drive improved financial & business performance
- Identify opportunities to streamline processes and improve reporting to drive new insights
- Prepare journal entries, analyze results under IFRS 15 and assist with month end close
- Work independently to prioritize and present various projects
Required Qualifications/Competencies:
- CPA designation is an asset (or working towards designation)
- 2+ years of finance work experience
- Strong analytical and problem solving abilities leveraging Excel, SQL, and analytic tools to solve business issues
- Experience building financial models and forecasting
- Experience with developing business cases, ad hoc financial analysis and providing recommendations to senior management
- Ability to self-learn (i.e. Google & YouTube are your friends) and ask questions
- Knowledge of SAP, BPC, Cognos, Tableau is an asset
- Ability to streamline processes to improve both speed and accuracy of planning and reporting processes
- Strong communication skills (verbal, written and presentation skills).
- Ability to work effectively in a fast-paced environment with the capacity to prioritize tasks and information effectively
- Self-starter, continuously looking to improve processes and drive efficiencies
- Team player, focused on ensuring team goals are prioritized and willing to help out when the occasion arises
- Enjoys working in a dynamic environment
- Strives to provide excellent Customer experience
Bilingualism is an asset (English and French); adequate knowledge of French is required for positions in Quebec.
Job ID: 59498