The Senior Financial Analyst is responsible for collecting, analyzing, forecasting and reporting accurate financial information to enable effective evaluation of business performance and decision-making in the areas of P&L, acting as a liaison between functional areas and the Finance department. To this end, the Senior Financial Analyst has additional responsibilities related to analytics and data mining.
Job Details
Key Accountabilities
Planning
- Take responsibility for financial planning, analysis forecasting and reporting based on company performance, market conditions, competitive activities and growth opportunities
- Provide financial support in analysis, recommendation and implementation of solutions and improvements
- Ensure that process is continuously improved in terms of efficiency, transparency and overall effectiveness in driving better business decisions
- Assist in preparing Annual Operating Plan, including leading overall process and timelines
- Participate in developing subscriber metric targets
- Provide departments with guidelines and assumptions to develop budgets
- Consolidate all information into financial system in accordance with established procedures
- Analyze results against budget and forecasts and prepare variance analysis forecasts for respective departments
- Assist in building detailed planning templates and strategic plans
- Assist in developing reforecasts and strategic plans at corporate level based on actual and future projections
- Assist in overall monthly forecast at beginning of month, allowing for time-sensitive analysis and decision-making
- Responsible for Capital Expenditure forecasting and amortization projection
- Responsible for projecting and consolidating all financial information for Cash Flow and Balance Sheet forecasting/budgeting
Reporting
- Deliver actuals reporting to business units and finance team, including tracking on key metrics in relation to month-end finance activities
- Prepare reports and recommendations, enabling effective evaluation of business performance and decision-making in areas of subscriber metrics
- Prepare standard and ad hoc reports and presentations for monthly management meetings
- Prepare periodic and ad-hoc report, period analysis and forecast/reforecast for P&L, Asset, Cash Flow and Balance sheet
- Perform data Analysis and prepare root causes and drivers, pull specific data in relation to the analysis
Modeling
- Develop, implement and use tools for managing and analyzing business performance
- Create and maintain complex multi-year models and monitor metrics to continuously improve upon forecasting of business performance
- Provide business case analysis on new marketing initiatives
- Maintain Asset depreciation, Cash Flow, and Deferred Revenue models
Knowledge and Skill Requirements
Level of Education
- Bachelor’s degree in commerce, business administration or economics
- Recognized accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA or equivalent) preferred
Job-Related Experience
- Minimum 2+ years of relevant experience
- Proficiency in analysis and data mining using SQL (considered an asset)
- Proficiency in Hyperion Essbase
Skills and Background
- Ability to create and maintain complex, multi-year, financial models and perform variance analysis
- Familiarity with subscriber-based business
- Experience working with and presenting to senior management
- Advanced-level skills in Microsoft Excel
- Basic SQL Querying knowledge
- Ability to work within a dynamic fast-paced environment
- Familiarity with International Financial Reporting Standards
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