Finance Lead, Operations Support

Role overview

Financial leadership and business partnership

• Lead and support two financial analysts.
• Oversee actuals, forecasts, budgets, risks, opportunities, and reporting; challenge assumptions and support accurate forecasts.
• Partner with technology and functional leaders on strategic decisions, workforce planning, and cost optimization.
• Prepare executive presentations and deliver actionable financial analysis.

Allocation and cloud cost governance

• Govern allocation methodologies, processes, and cost-recovery models; improve transparency and cost containment.
• Coordinate financial governance of cloud spending and develop analyses on consumption, optimization, and funding.

Strategic initiatives

• Support global finance and technology initiatives, confidential mandates, and executive-level requests.

Minimum qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or a related field.
• At least 8 years of financial analysis experience; manufacturing or operational experience is preferred.
• Excellent Microsoft Office Excel knowledge.
• Bilingual in French and English.

Preferred qualifications

• CPA or CFA designation or progress toward either; Oracle and/or Power BI experience; people management experience.
• Strong communication, relationship-building, interpersonal, independent work, prioritization, and problem-solving abilities are preferred.
• Customer-oriented approach is preferred.

Benefits

• Benefits include group insurance, telemedicine and employee and family assistance, employee stock purchase plan, group RRSP, pension plan, sabbatical leave, flex time, and enhanced parental leave.

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