Financial Analyst

**Department**: Products & Food Technology

**Reports To**: Vice President Finance

**MAJOR DUTIES**:
**SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES**:
The Financial Analyst - Financial Planning and Analysis will identify continuous improvement opportunities to simplify and make improvements from a controls, process and/or systems perspective to drive positive change within and across the organization.

ANNUAL OPERATING PLAN PROCESS
- Planning and coordinating the consolidated annual operating plans globally
- Assisting divisional finance leads during the annual operating plan process and subsequent monthly analysis of variances

OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
- Assisting in building and maintaining business models, value drivers and key performance indicators, and benchmarking internally and externally
- Consolidating the monthly outlook and providing analysis of variances between Actual, forecasted and plan results.
- Developing and updating monthly consolidated program reporting to identify trends, opportunities, and risk
- Leading the Onestream CPM Financial Planning and Analysis development while creating various dashboards and reports to support both Corporate and divisional needs
- Partner with Manager, Business Intelligence to increase accessibility to data in the divisions
- Responding to inquiries from department leads and perform required analysis

FINANCIAL REPORTING AND ACCOUNTING
- Assisting in the month end preparation of Corporate standard financial reporting
- Assisting with account reconciliations and preparation of quarter end and year end audit working papers
- Providing commentary on monthly and quarterly departmental variances and assist with financial reporting requirements as required
- Developing and/or preparing ad hoc financial analysis as assigned

INTERNAL CONTROL, POLICIES AND PROCEDURES
- Ensuring that policies and procedures are adhered to in a consistent manner within the division and that the financial reporting standards are applied consistently.
- Assisting in the development and maintenance of company policies and procedures.
- Ensuring the safeguarding of company assets.

HUMAN RESOURCES
- Ensuring that all business activities are performed with the highest ethical standards and in compliance with the ATS Code of Business Conduct.
- Adhering to all health and safety rules and procedures.

**Health and Safety**

Non-Management: All employees have the responsibility to work in a safe manner and report any health, safety or environmental concern to their manager or supervisor in a timely manner.

Employee responsibilities for Health, Safety and Environment include:

- Work in compliance with divisional health, safety and environmental procedures
- Refrain from removing or altering safety devices or guarding unless hazardous energies are controlled through lockout-tag out methods
- Report any unsafe conditions or unsafe acts
- Report defect in any equipment or protective device
- Ensure that the required protective equipment is used for the assigned tasks
- Attend all required health, safety and environmental training
- Report any accidents/incidents to supervisor
- Assist in investigating accidents/incidents
- Refrain from engaging in any prank, contest, feat of strength, unnecessary running or rough and boisterous conduct

**QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Education**:

- A post-secondary degree specializing in accounting, finance or equivalent
- Working towards an accounting designation would be beneficial

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 4 years of accounting and/or financial analysis experience
- Communicates effectively with people at all levels of the organization both verbally and in writing
- Able to effectively and concisely present financial information in a Powerpoint presentation for executive audiences
- Ability to work independently or as part of a team
- Strong analytical, financial reporting and accounting skills
- Has a sense of curiosity and able to ask questions and identify variances that require further explanation
- Strong Excel skills and exposure to Onestream CPM considered an asset
- Problem solving and analysis: understand the root-cause and define the scope of the problem, identifying strengths and weaknesses of alternatives and select/recommend appropriate solution.
- Must be hands-on, detail and results oriented and able to consistently meet deadlines
- Must be able to closely review their own work and correct errors before reports are released