Financial Analyst Ii - Toronto, Canada - Lightspeed Commerce
Description
Purpose of the role:
Our Mission:
Lightspeed powers the businesses that are the backbone of the global economy.
Our one-stop commerce platform transforms and unifies digital and physical operations by enabling multichannel sales, expansion to new locations, global payments, financial solutions and connection to supplier networks.
We're passionate about enabling people to do their best work. We dream big and we're looking for people who do the same. With us, career milestones happen often and we celebrate every one. Come work with us and find out where your career will take you at Lightspeed
Role:
- Establish solid business partnerships with leaders across the business
- Prepare, improve and streamline the budgeting, forecasting and long term planning process
- Perform deep analysis and scorecard against budget/forecast monthly and quarterly
- Responsible for the delivery of accurate and timely monthend variance and management reporting
- Provide analytical support and financial guidance to help with various business decisions. This includes developing new analyses and improving reports and metrics to better support business partners' decisionmaking process
- Ability to multitask and work quickly while being able to adapt to a rapidly evolving environment
- Participate in various FP&A activities, including preparing presentations for the Senior Management team
And a little bit of....
- Work on ad hoc projects as assigned; such as assessment of new business activities or change of process
- Assist with special requests from the executive team
- Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives even if this means doing things that aren't strictly within the scope of your role.
How you will know you are succeeding:
- Quality
- There are various ways to assess the quality of work completed. One such measure is the percentage of work that needs to be redone or is rejected, especially in financial modeling. The percentage of issues resolved over total inquiries from the business.
- Efficiency the amount of output you obtain for a given amount of effort without sacrificing quality.
- Engagement
- You care about your work and the company's performance, and you believe that your efforts matter. An engaged employee is motivated by more than a paycheck.
- Learning ability
- Ability to achieve expectations that are aligned with company goals, along with participation in online training programs to assess your aptitude to learn.
- Teamwork
- Ability to work in groups to solve complicated problems.
- Consistency
- Consistency
- Creativity and Innovation
- The feedback that emphasizes how you interact with others in the organization rather than just as an individual fosters creativity and intrinsic motivation. Employees that are inherently excited and joyful about what they do are said to have intrinsic drive. It has an impact on jobrelated passion and interests. Employees that are motivated are more likely to take chances and come up with innovative ideas for financial process improvements and EBITDA positive outcomes.
Experience:
-
2-3 years in progressive financial analysis experience:
- Bachelor's Degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance
- Expert knowledge in Excel is a must
- Excellent analytical and problemsolving skills/modeling
- Proven track record in business partner or corporate FP&A role
- Highly detail oriented and organized
- Strong and effective verbal and written communication to interact with all levels of management
- Demonstrated success working in a deadline driven and multitask, fastpaced environment
- Strong strategic / outside of the box thinking and analytical skills
- Detail oriented, autonomous, and able to take initiative
- Highly motivated and can work both as a team and independently
What's in it for you
- Join a growing data team and help us move to the next level
- Do your job in a truly
flexible environment - You can also
work from anywhere in the world for 60 days a year (consecutive or nonconsecutive). The choice is yours - Amazing benefits & perks, including equity for all Lightspeeders
- Constant development of both your skillset and business acumen with limitless growth opportunities
- Lots of autonomy, flexible work culture and possibility of remote work
- Innovation time to explore and learn at work
- Shaping the company by joining cultural & technical committees
- Tons of growth opportunities into technical or people management roles
- Opportunity to join a fastpaced, highgrowth comp
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