Senior Financial Analyst

Drive financial planning and analysis to support plant performance and strategic decision-making. This role focuses on financial modelling, business case evaluation, and partnering with operations to improve cost, profitability, and cash flow. The position will also provide guidance and support to junior analysts and other finance-related duties as required

• Lead and coordinate the budgeting and forecasting processes.
• Analyze financial performance, including revenue, margins, manufacturing costs (material, labour, overhead), inventory, and profitability, providing insights and recommendations.
• Perform monthly closing, variance analysis, and management reporting.
• Develop financial models and business cases for pricing, CapEx, and strategic initiatives.
• Build and maintain Power BI dashboards to support decision-making.
• Partner with Operations, Supply Chain, and Engineering to drive cost and productivity improvements.
• Support quote reviews, audits, SOX compliance, and internal controls.
• Mentor junior analysts and drive continuous improvement in reporting and financial processes.
• Perform ad-hoc financial analysis and special projects as required

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in, Finance, Accounting, or related finance discipline.
• At least 7 years of relevant experience in a Financial Analyst or in a similar financial role (manufacturing preferred)
• Prior audit experience (Big4 or internal audit exposure preferred)
• Strong knowledge of financial processes, budgeting, forecasting, and analysis techniques.
• Experience with costing, inventory, and variance analysis
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, critical thinking, planning skills.
• Skillful at collecting and organizing data, logically interpreting it and making intelligent conclusions
• Ability to communicate effectively with various levels of management and stakeholders across the organization.
• Team player, with ability to partner with employees at all levels in the organization
• Independent, results orientated, detail-oriented, able to handle complexity, ambiguity and time pressures
• Understanding of financial management, generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and valuation principles/metrics
• Experienced user of Microsoft Office suite of products required (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI). Other financial system product experience preferred (SAP)

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