Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
Longueuil, QC, Canada1h ago
Key details
- Location
- Longueuil, QC, Canada
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Job type
- Full-time
- Experience
- 4–7 yrs
- Function
- Finance & Accounting
- Focus area
- other
- Posted
- 1h ago
Skills
About the role
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Key Responsibilities
Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting
- Support the annual budget process, including templates, assumptions, data collection, consolidation, quality control and presentation materials.
- Prepare and maintain monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts in partnership with the Director, FP&A and business leaders.
- Build and maintain driver-based financial models covering store revenue, gross margin, labour, operating expenses, capital expenditures and cash flow.
- Maintain multi-entity consolidation models and help integrate acquired businesses into a consistent planning and reporting structure.
Management Reporting & Performance Analysis
- Prepare monthly management reporting, including performance versus budget, forecast and prior year, with clear variance explanations by store, banner, channel and business unit.
- Develop and maintain KPI dashboards for measures such as same-store sales, gross margin percentage, labour productivity, inventory turns and store-level profitability.
- Identify performance trends, risks and opportunities, and prepare concise insights and recommendations for management.
- Perform ad hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling to support operational and strategic decisions.
MD&A, Executive & Lender Reporting
- Draft financial commentary and Management Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) for monthly and quarterly results, ensuring consistency with actual results validated by Accounting.
- Support the preparation of executive, board and lender reporting materials, including financial performance, outlook and key business trends.
- Create clear charts, bridges and narratives that translate complex financial information into decision-useful messages.
EPM Implementation & Reporting Automation
- Support the Director, FP&A as business lead for the selected EPM implementation, including requirements gathering, model design, testing, data validation, documentation and user adoption.
- Reconcile and validate data between EPM models, the general ledger, accounting systems and operational data sources.
- Help automate recurring reporting and reduce reliance on manual Excel-based processes while maintaining strong controls and auditability.
Business Partnership & Continuous Improvement
- Partner with Operations, Merchandising, Marketing and other functional teams to understand business drivers and assess the financial implications of decisions.
- Work closely with Accounting and Controllership to ensure a clean handoff of monthly close data into management reporting, forecasts and analysis.
- Document and improve FP&A processes, models, reporting standards and data definitions.
- Provide analytical support for acquisitions, integration activities and other strategic initiatives, as required.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or a related field; CPA, CFA or MBA completed or in progress is an asset.
- Approximately 4–7 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting or a related analytical role. Relevant experience and demonstrated capability may substitute for years of experience.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience with budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial variance analysis.
- Strong financial modelling skills, including experience with multi-entity or multi-business-unit consolidation models.
- Advanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI, Tableau or other business intelligence and reporting tools is an asset.
- Experience implementing, administering or using an EPM platform such as Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle Hyperion or a comparable solution is strongly preferred.
- Retail or distribution experience is strongly preferred, ideally in a multi-store or multi-unit environment with exposure to store-level P&Ls, same-store sales, labour productivity and inventory turns.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- High degree of accuracy, ownership and organization, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
- Exposure to financial integration following acquisitions is an asset.
- French and English communication skills are an asset given the role’s collaboration across Québec and Canadian operations.
Core Competencies
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What Success Looks Like
- Delivers accurate, timely and increasingly automated planning and reporting outputs.
- Produces analysis that explains not only what changed, but why it changed and what action is required.
- Builds trusted working relationships with Finance and operating leaders while maintaining analytical independence.
- Supports the Director, FP&A in establishing a scalable, disciplined and high-impact FP&A function for TRC.
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