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Senior Financial Analyst - Budgeting
Business
on site: Toronto
added Thu Sep 21, 2023
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About the role:

The Senior Financial Analyst will play a crucial role in providing insightful financial analysis, strategic planning, and decision support to drive the financial success. This position requires exceptional analytical abilities, a deep understanding of financial and accounting principles, and strong business acumen.

The senior financial analyst will help with the following:

  1. Financial Analysis and Reporting:

    1. Financial analysis, variance analysis, trend analysis, and forecasting, to assess the company's financial performance.

    2. Develop and maintain financial models, metrics, and KPIs to evaluate the financial impact of various initiatives.

    3. Prepare and present detailed financial reports, executive summaries, and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.

    4. Analyze and interpret complex financial data to identify key insights and trends that impact business performance.

  2. Budgeting and Forecasting:

    1. Collaborate with department heads to develop annual budgets and forecasts, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and financial targets.

    2. Monitor budget performance, identify areas of concern or improvement, and recommend corrective actions as necessary.

    3. Provide guidance and support in the preparation of departmental budgets, ensuring accuracy and adherence to financial guidelines.

    4. Prepare monthly/quarterly management dashboard reports and financial packages, critical financial data and metrics

  3. Other:

    1. Identify process improvements for existing month-end close process & reconciliations, execute and deliver the same.

    2. Prepare selected supplementary schedules and analysis for financial statements.

    3. Streamline financial reporting and analysis procedures to ensure timely and accurate delivery of financial information.

    4. Ensure compliance with financial regulations, accounting principles, and internal policies and procedures.

    5. Assist in the development and implementation of internal controls to mitigate financial risks.

    6. Support internal and external audits by providing accurate and relevant financial information.

Required skills and experience:

  • Professional accounting designation, CPA or MBA

  • Minimum 3-5 years of progressive accounting / finance experience

  • Experience with building and improving financial models

  • Strong problem solving, analytical and strategic thinking skills; able to see the “big picture” in a complex business environment and natural curiosity to understand the reason behind transactions

  • Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and Access

  • Excellent communication & interpersonal skills

  • Detail oriented and strong analytical skills

  • Audit & Controls experience preferred

  • Self-starter with the ability to work independently, particularly in the area of using sound, independent judgment, problem-solving and analytical skills.

Bonus Points:

Programming in SQL, Python.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

🧑‍💻 Flexible Work Hours

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

🖥 Home Office Set-Up Stipend

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability

📱 Monthly Expenses Stipend

🚼 Parental and Baby Bonding Leave

🏝 Flexible PTO (2 Weeks Minimum Required) + Holidays

🚀 Annual company/team offsites (4/year)

Want to Learn More?

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.

The overall market range of base compensation for roles in this area of Replit is typically $80,000 - $110,000 CAD. Compensation offered will be determined by additional factors such as location and experience.

We’re building the world’s most ubiquitous programming environment. We focus on inspiring creativity and generating value for creators through community, and we design simple yet scalable infrastructure primitives for the next generation of creators. We want to blur the line between learning and making– a place where you can hang out, tinker with ideas, learn new concepts, and launch a business all in the same day.