Manager, Finance Data Analytics and Reporting

Job Description

Reporting to the Director, Finance Data Analytics and Reporting, the Manager, Finance Data Analytics and Reporting leads the provision of innovative and sought-after insights that drive our business forward through partnership and collaboration. The Manager influences and engages the business decision-making with actionable and value-add data-driven insights assumptions and initiatives, from the financial lens of business partnering, acting as a strategic business partner to other lines of business through its support provided to the Finance Business Partners. 

The Manager influences and engages the business owners through financial and data analysis and modeling, development of strategic to tactical actionable insights, measurement and reporting of the business’ financial performance and elaboration of look-forward financial planning views through analytics. The Manager acts as a change agent partnering with finance and business process owners to story tell the business and financial results and drive business performance for its area of responsibility that has undergone and will continue to receive evolving complexities and growing demands for business intelligence.

Job Responsibilities

Below are the main job requirements and responsibilities for the Manager, Finance Data Analytics and Reporting. 

• Contributes to the value-add and agile decision-making provided by the Finance Business Partners. Implements the creation of business analytics and insights and look-forward financial views, preparation of analysis of key business decisions and the impacts and risks involved. Implements the maintenance and enhancement of finance performance and planning models and tools, generation of Financial Performance metrics and KPIs measurement and reporting, development of financial plans and forecasts, and delivery of management reporting. 

• Supports the broad range of cross-functional business partners across the company through analyzing and creating agile and near-real time insights from streamlined and standardized data, reporting and analytics. 

• Partners collaboratively with the Finance Business Partner team who leads the exchanges with business owners, build and maintain business relationships, and to be accountable for the business partnering messages and narratives, supporting the business owners’ decision-making. 

• Develops and presents insights from the measurement of financial performance and planning performance to the Directors, General Managers, Canada Post Group of Companies, and other key business owners in the management of Canada Post. Ensures they are provided with the necessary information to support their decision-making and to facilitate their understanding of how these decision impact the approved objectives and corporate priorities. 

Job Responsibilities (continued)

• Accountable for determining financial costing of custom value propositions, as part of the preparation of analysis of key business decision and their impacts and risks. Maintains and enhances the sales’ custom business case costing determination processes. Supports the sales’ custom-bid process held by the Pricing Leads. Maintains and enhances finance performance and planning models through the lens of profitability management. Generates financial performance metrics and measurement and reporting KPIs. Supports the development of financial plans and forecasts and delivery of management reporting. 

• Manages a Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) business area of responsibility. Aligns with the Finance Analytic Hub, leveraging data governance, reporting and analytics’ frameworks, and business processes and procedures. Defines data to model and report architecture for finance transformation. Develops sought after insights by examining data sets, finding trends, and drawing conclusions. Builds analytics capabilities, up the maturity curve to address lag, and develop leading indicators (descriptive, diagnostic, predictive and prescriptive analytics). 

• Leads the development of plans, budgets and forecasts for all expenses, assets, and liabilities in relation to their supported business area(s), in alignment with strategic, tactical and operational plans and targets. Creates and continuously optimizes the supporting planning and financial performance models and scenarios, business insights, and financial views. 

• Manages a data-driven team within the FP&A community in the finance function, in accordance with our Finance Target Operating model and through best practices from the industry. Facilitates the development of professional FP&A staff, with functional and/or technical analytics skillsets, that is suitably trained and well motivated to provide high quality services to the organization.

Qualifications

Education

•    Completed post-secondary education in a related field, commerce, finance, economics, accounting, business administration. 

•    CPA (CA, CMA, CGA) professional designation is an asset

•    Completed Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree is an asset

Experience
•    3 to 5 years of relevant functional experience.

•    2 or more years’ experience in a supervisory role.

•    Experience working in a large enterprise, including Canada Post, is an asset

•    Experience with data analytics is an asset

Other Candidate Requirements

• Solid Business and Financial acumen with proven ability to understand and decipher the business and financial issues 

• Excellent team building and leadership skills and experience. 

• Sound organizational, analytical, judgment and decision-making skills with proven abilities in problem solving. 

• Solid financial modeling skills, within a Financial Planning & Analysis focus, and ability to convert into actionable value-add insights 

• Knowledge of visualization tools such as Power BI and Power query.  

• Knowledge of modeling techniques. 

• Programming experience (e.g. Python or VB) and database programming using SQL 

• Basic knowledge of Agile methodologies and Jira. 

• Solid interpersonal skills with an ability to build and maintain relationships. 

• Strong oral and written communication skills. 

• Proficient computer skills and competent with Microsoft Office programs, ERP financial planning solutions and data analytics & visualization tools. 

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