Manager, Strategic Planning - Mississauga, Canada - Chartwell

Chartwell
Chartwell
Verified Company
Mississauga, Canada

2 weeks ago

Sophia Lee

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Scope of the position:


Reporting to the Senior Director, Strategic Planning & Analysis, the incumbent will combine their functional accounting expertise, systems knowledge, and planning experience to ensure the success of departmental goals and objectives.

In addition, you will support the department in all aspects of financial planning and analysis, on-going and tactical analysis, and reporting to support the department objectives

Key Activities


_Information Capital:
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  • Key contributor for design, development, testing and project implementation for OneStream solution.
  • Key contributor for business process design, testing and project implementation for Power BI tool implementations.
  • Assist with the analysis of business processes and business problems.
  • Contribute to and execute on the development of processes to integrate system data into existing financial planning processes.
  • Understand at an expert level, the detailed technical aspects, features, and functionality of OneStream and Power BI solutions.
  • Key contributor in the development of new functionality from the user perspective and help to ensure that schedule and quality goals are met.
  • Effectively communicate with technical team for issue resolution.
  • Understand how the various projects will fit together and make recommendations for design improvements.
  • Improve performance and value of existing reports, as well as design, develop and support reporting tools and support production of reporting processes.

_Reporting & Analysis:
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  • Analyze monthly results to budget and/or forecast.
  • Analysis and reporting for joint ventures; provide insights and recommendations as necessary.
  • Adhere to corporate reporting policies, guidelines, and timetables.
  • Leverage Power BI and OneStream Adhoc analysis tools for reporting purposes.
  • Key member of the Decision Support team for supporting and aligning an analysis approach across the company.
  • Assist in converting excelbased models to OneStreambased models per the department's goals and objectives.
  • Provide analysis and reports on a monthly basis to senior management teams.
  • Subject matter expert for our property NOI and capital investment budget, forecast and spend.
  • Working with the Strategic Planning & Decision Support team, contribute to the development and improvement and/or automation of:
  • monthly and/or quarterly forecast process and the annual budget process
- workforce reporting
- accountability for results reporting
- capital investment reporting
- consolidated financial reporting
- key performance indicator reporting


_Budgeting & Forecasting:
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  • Be a key contributor to the financial forecasting activities.
  • Key contributor for the NOI and Capital investment budget processes.
  • Support and participate in the IFFO annual budget and forecast processes.
  • Work with divisional and functional areas to develop agreed upon timelines and templates.
  • Consolidate divisional and functional annual budgets, monthly and quarterly forecasts, and key performance indicators.
  • Lead working group activities to develop agreed upon timelines and ensure milestones are achieved.
  • Review and analyze budgets for completeness and reasonability, explaining material variances.
  • Preparation of budget and forecast material presented to senior management and / or owners.
  • Provide support for the divisional and functional annual budget and quarterly forecast processes and key performance indicators.

_Strategic Planning:
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  • Assist in developing and maintaining performance monitoring tools for our strategy.
  • Assist in the implementation of performance measurement tools, including KPI's, scoreboards, dashboards and other financial models.
  • Preparation of strategic planning materials presented to the Board and senior management.

_Other _

  • Prepare ad hoc and whatif analysis as required.
  • Working with Strategic Planning & Decision Support team, contribute to the development and improvement of processes and formal process documentation.
  • Working with Strategic Planning & Decision Support team, align and support the team in the best practice and utilization of Power BI and OneStream Adhoc analysis tool.
  • Participate in cross training with other team members within the Decision Support team.

Qualifications:


_Experience & Education:
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  • Postsecondary education with preference to CA, CFA, CMA, CGA, designations.
  • 8+ years of experience in financial reporting, financial planning, budgeting, forecasting or analysis capacity, including financial analysis modeling experience.
  • Experience in seniors housing, healthcare or real estate sector preferred.
  • Experience with OneStream Planning solution preferred.
  • Experience with Business Intelligence tools (asset).

_Skills & Abilities:
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  • Proven analytical skills with a natural interest toward analytical activities and investigation.
  • Aptitude toward systems and process improvements and reengineering.
  • Process improvement
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