Location: GTA
Director, FP&A will support the business by providing business advisory and partnership to drive revenue and profit growth in the assigned business lines with focus on free cash flow generation.
Duties:
• Lead, manage, and mentor a team of 5
• Provide financial and operational reporting, analysis and decision-making support to business line management including pricing, cost, cash flow, capital and return of investments
• Partner with shared service and accounting teams to complete month end close.
• Work with operational groups to review results and drive improvement
• Develop models to be used by management and operational groups to analyze business
• Work with operational and accounting teams to review results during the month end close process
• Review existing workflows and identify potential areas of process improvement
• Carry out monthly financial reporting, including preparation of MD&A, variance explanation, bridging, mix and margin analysis, and recommendations for performance improvement
• Lead/Participate in periodic business review meetings to discuss financial performance, operational and financial KPIs, growth initiatives, contingency plan, and outlook
• Provide financial support to strategic, operational and tactical plans with a clear understanding of the business levers such as suppliers, customers, and competition
• Work with collection and accounts payable management to analyze results and identify areas of working capital improvement.
• Prepare annual budget, quarterly outlook, and monthly forecast. Lead/participate in long range plan process
Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting /Finance
• 5+ years of related financial analysis experience
• Ability to work in a fast pace environment with tight deadlines
• Experience providing financial support to a multi-location business
• Solid understanding of accounting and budgeting
• Proficiency in Microsoft tools
• Strong consultative, analytical and problem solving skills
• Assertive when required, with the ability to listen and make decisions
• Excellent interpersonal/communication and presentation skills
• Know when to be detail oriented and when to have a big picture perspective
• Strong organizational skills and ability to work independently
• Must be able to prioritize projects and/or business needs based on requirements and objectives
• Commercial and cultural awareness; cross-functional collaboration skills
• Persuasive character with the highest levels of integrity
