Associate, Financial Planning - Guelph, Canada - Gateway Services Inc
Description
Job Overview
The Associate, FP&A, reporting into the Director, FP&A, is responsible for assisting the finance team on the overall planning, monitoring, evaluation, and reporting of GSI's financial performance.
Duties & Responsibilities
- Interact proactively and collaboratively with various team members on a regular basis.
- Assist with the annual and quarterly budgeting process organizationwide.
- Continuously develop tools/systems and automate processes; manage the existing budgeting and forecasting solution and continue to streamline the forecasting and budgeting processes to provide enhanced reporting functionality.
- Assist with providing clear, accurate and reliable predictive forecast modeling for multiple functional areas.
- Review historical data, predict future results, analyze, and explain budget variances.
- Review and analyze results and develop insightful suggestions.
- Review operations profit and loss statements for costsavings opportunities and work crossfunctionally to incorporate these initiatives.
- Identify key data sources and utilize datadriven insights about important departmental metrics to improve business decisions.
- Coordinate, prepare and analyze monthly, quarterly, and annual rolling forecasts and prepare reporting on actuals vs. budgeted results, including additional adhoc analysis on results.
- Assist with establishing budget and operating benchmarks, to assist in preparation of monthly / annual forecasts.
- Maintain awareness of proper internal controls and make recommendations for any deficiencies.
- Perform quantitative analysis required for strategic planning, special projects, and reports for management and communicate results to management team.
- Prepare other reports and participate in other special projects as requested.
Education, Training & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting required
- A minimum of 3 years of professional experience required
- CPA or other relevant qualification is an asset
- Experience with Netsuite ERP, PowerBI and Vena CRM considered an asset.
Skills & Abilities
- Exceptional analytical, quantitative, and statistical skills.
- Indepth knowledge of corporate finance and accounting principles, laws and best practices.
- Advanced quantitative and analytical skills.
- Strong financial modeling skills, along with understanding of financial reporting and cash flow information.
- Detailoriented and able to balance multiple responsibilities and tasks while meeting deadlines.
- Solid computer skills with proficiency in MS Excel and working with a large ERP/Financial System.
- Ability to act and operate independently with mínimal daily direction to accomplish objectives.
- Ability to work cooperatively and collaboratively with all levels of employees, management, and outside parties to maximize performance, creativity, problem solving, and results.
- Excellent organizational and leadership skills.
- Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.
Working Conditions
- Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
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