What you’ll do

The Financial Analyst, Finance Operations Analytics is a key member of the Finance Shared Services team who provides operational metrics and analytics to help stakeholders understand opportunities and drivers of performance. The incumbent will provide and refine operational reporting and KPIs to drive improvements and process changes across Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Payroll functions.

• Collaborate and work closely with Finance Shared Services managers to develop operational KPIs and performance reporting.

• Create, generate and synthesize moderate to complex financial analysis related to Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable transactions. Automate report generation as required.

• Support the budgeting, forecasting and reporting of operating expenses and assist with monthly variance reviews.

• Prepare and complete analysis on business-driven initiatives. Review and interpret analysis and present recommendations to Management.

• Draw meaningful conclusions/insights from large amounts of data. Adapt to multiple data repositories and systems, as required, to create comprehensive views of business units across the enterprise.

• Develop and deliver financial metric dashboards to be utilized by management.

• Build financial models and executive dashboards for decision support.

• Provide client stakeholders with accurate, timely and insightful reporting on key performance indicators and actively play a role in driving efficiency.

• Manage multiple requests in a fast paced and ever-changing environment.

• Actively work to enhance knowledge of procure-to-pay and contract-to-cash processes, data flows and systems.
  

What you bring

• University degree or College diploma in Business, Finance, Accounting, or other quantitative discipline.

• 2+ years experience in a role with a focus on financial analysis or analytics.

• Experience with data manipulation and spreadsheet modelling. Comfortable working with large data sets and developing executive reports and presentations.

• Advance working knowledge pf MS Excel: pivot tables, power-pivot, complex formulas and capacity to generate and maintain macros. Experience with SQL and Power BI tools is considered an asset.

• Ability to understand complex business workflows that integrate with business areas and understand upstream and downstream impacts of issues.

• Enthusiastic team player with an inquisitive, innovative and growth mindset.

• Ability to prioritize, meet deadlines, and complete deliverables on a timely manner.

• Critical thinking skills with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business.

• Collaborative style with superior influencing skills

• Strong customer service skills including efficiently and effectively responding to inquiries.

• Candidates may be subject to skills and knowledge testing.

Hybrid

We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging

We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations

We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.