Senior Financial Analyst

Senior Financial Analyst

Hybrid Role (2 Days in Markham Office)

Job Description:

The Andromeda Division of Perseus Operating Group, a division of Constellation Software (TSX:CSU), is seeking an energetic, independent and detail oriented Senior Financial Analyst (SFA) to join our Markham office. The SFA will be part of a leadership program of the Andromeda and its Corporate Finance team. Our program will provide you with in-depth experience, ongoing mentorship, and targeted training across a range of business finance areas within our company. The candidate will work on special projects across strategic finance, accounting policy and controls, financial reporting, and finance operations functions. Alongside the projects, the SFA will also learn the knowledge of our business units, the reporting structures and framework including the business operations and financial processes.

This experience will provide a unique learning environment and high visibility to our leadership team, mentoring relationships with managers and peers, and exposure to strategic company projects. Our goal will be to transition the SFA to a regular, full-time position (pending performance and availability of openings) as a Finance Manager supporting the Andromeda business units.

This role is perfect for someone who is looking for a fast paced, growth orientated environment that will allow for rewarding challenges and a defined trajectory for long-term growth.  If you are a strong performer working with a company that has a complex matrixed structure, we would love to talk to you about this unique opportunity.

• Financial Reporting
• Accounting Policy and Compliance
• Finance Operations
• Finance Strategy

Professional Acumen:

• The ideal candidate will have strong organizational and communication skills allowing him or her to manage multiple priorities while maintaining exceptional attention to detail.
• Will ensure strong relationships with external vendors and internal customers; maintaining a strong customer service culture and positive attitude within the finance team. Experience with a multilocation environment is a plus.
• Be proactive and eager to contribute and learn, ask lots of questions, and provide solutions. Maintaining a continuous improvement mindset and proactively identify, review, and implement process improvements.
• Strategic thinking with strong analytical skills, problem solving ability and ability to apply a data driven approach to decision making ensuring that recommendations and solutions are fact-based.

Job Responsibilities:

• Review and/or produce supporting schedules to ensure financial management reports are complete and accurate.
• Ensure all financial controls are executed effectively and in accordance with internal policy.
• Conduct financial analysis (variance analysis and performance measurement) and communicate results to management.
• Maintain and enhance financial models, analysis processes that support management reporting processes.
• Support business planning and forecasting cycles.
• Engage with business line management. and actuarial partners to support the development of annual revenue and expense budgets/forecasts, including the annual 5-year financial plan, and provide required ongoing reporting against actuals.
• Provide reporting and analysis against plan to key stakeholders to support their ongoing management of the business.
• Ensure business results are well understand and how they impact financial results and implications for planning/forecasting decisions.
• Produce and update forecasts as required.
• Research and provide technical FP&A support and guidance.

Education and Technical Skills:

• Bachelor’s in Accounting, Finance or Business.
• 3-5 years of professional experience from public accounting or a similar corporate finance environment.
• Completed or near completion of an accounting designation.
• Excellent Analytical skills and experience with financial analysis conducting discounted cashflow models, what-if analysis.
• Ability to present financial data using detailed report, charts and executive summaries.
• Demonstrated ability to identify financial trends, investigate financial errors, omissions, variances and recommend solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to identify financial trends, investigate financial errors, omissions, variances and recommend solutions.
• Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office suite including sophisticated Excel workbooks and PowerPoint.
• Experience with accounting technology including automated solutions and ERP’s for general ledgers.
• Ability to manage, develop and implement best practices.