Manager, Management Reporting - Toronto, Canada - Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

2 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

The opportunity

The Manager, Management Reporting & Planning ("MR&P"), will be part of a team responsible for building an outstanding financial planning and management reporting function, maturing quarterly forecast and multi-year enterprise planning processes and methodologies, developing strategic partnerships with cross functional divisional leaders, to assist them with business management and provide management reporting insights that are timely and decision useful.

Who you'll work with

In this role you will support the Senior Manager (MR&P) and Director, MR&P and Investor Relations, and will frequently interact with Managing Director, Financial & Management Reporting ("FMR") and CFO.

You will closely collaborate with peers within MR&P and across Finance to develop insight and analysis and produce management reporting & effectively implement planning processes.

You will act as a critical finance partner to functional divisions (Enterprise Operations, People & Culture, Corporate Affairs etc.) and operating divisional partners (Investments, Member Services) such as cost centre managers and department leaders.

What you'll do

Financial Planning & Analysis:

Prepare base quarterly forecasts and annual/3year plan for assigned division(s), support cost centre and department business partner assumption modeling and integration of topdown budgeting guidance with bottomup cost centre rollup, which includes Workforce Planning, General & Administrative Costs, Investment Related Transaction Costs and External Management Fees and supports Capital Plan and Project Finance.
Work with the Senior Manager and functional partners to assess expenditure drivers and savings levers for both fixed, variable, discretionary and critical initiative spend. Gather relevant and complete data, drivers and assumptions to develop whatif scenario models and perform multi scenario analysis to support operating and financial decisions.
Prepare board and executive management recurring and adhoc reporting and presentations and applicable material. Support preparation of internal partners (CFO/FMR leadership, divisional departments leaders and cost centre managers) presentations, materials and applicable communications as related to results, forecast and budget and adhoc analysis.
Analyze financial performance of assigned division(s), identifying key drivers of variances and financial implication of business activity changes / assumption revisions and their impact on forecast and annual budget.
Develop overall "so what, now what" insight, make connections to divisional priorities, KPI's and other metrics and provide recommendations for budget management and mitigation opportunities.
Lead financial models to support forecasting, budgeting and reporting to develop insights into cost structures to support prioritization decisions and strategic business decisions.
Support ongoing peer benchmarking and related analysis to help provide insights, develop topdown guidance and drive business outcomes based on performance / results relative to peers.
Contribute to maturing the overall enterprise forecasting and budgeting process, including supporting organizational change within the team and functional and operating divisions, bringing in standard methodologies for the forecasting and budgeting processes and effectively handling timelines and expectations.
Reinforce culture of cost consciousness, cost clarity and cost management.

Management Reporting:

Prepare month end financial analysis for assigned division(s), analyzing driverbased variance analysis of actual vs. budget, prior periods, forecast, crafting decision useful insight for cost centre managers and divisional/department leaders.
Prepare ongoing management reporting including KPIs, performance and other metrics, leveraging relevant data visualization techniques (crafting dashboards, graphical storytelling etc.) to help evaluate overall performance of asset classes, total plan performance and metrics (inclusive of divisional & departmental results and people and nonpeople cost allocations) and related insights vital for Executive Team members to operate the business effectively and efficiently.
Understand & handle (where applicable) corporate cost allocation model and analyze impact on results of assigned division(s).
Work with Sr. Manager and functional partners to enhance internal management reporting, KPI and other performance and operating metrics tracking that connect back to divisional and enterprise priorities.
Assess opportunities, provide recommendations and implement automation of management reports and selfserve capabilities (through PowerBI or other tools).
Prepare/contribute to monthly and quarterly executive leadership reporting.
Provide recommendations to both internal finance and divisional partners based on analysis and interpretation of financial and nonfinancial results to support decision making.
Proactively seek to build