Senior Financial Analyst
What you'll do
The eCommerce Financial, Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst, who will play a key role in providing support for eCommerce and Digital strategic initiatives across CTR, Mark's and SportChek. In this role, you will apply your financial and analytical skills and to provide high quality support to the business through planning, forecasting and the development of insights and recommendations to help Canadian Tire's eCommerce businesses move forward with strategic initiatives. Working with cross-functional teams across Finance, Digital and Marketing, you will leverage data to help teams uncover insights, trends, and to evaluate current business performance against plan/forecast. You will be staying current on the latest developments in analytics software/approaches within the organization helping the eCommerce FP&A team with building and maintaining more robust processes, models, and dashboards.
Provide excellent financial support to the eCommerce and Digital team by preparing accurate and timely budgets and forecasts, monitoring results versus plan/forecast/prior year, investigating variances and providing a thorough analysis of financial results.
Take complex data points and simplify with effective and representative visualizations (charts, tables, graphs, slides) to provide analytical insights and recommendations, to influence business clients.
Design, plan, and build data pipelines (data wrangling / preparation), data modeling and analytical/statistical workflows, data visualizations, and reporting/dashboarding tools to support and conduct comprehensive analyses.
Identify inefficiencies in current processes and strive for continuous improvement through changes to modelling approaches and/or automation.
Enable high-impact strategic projects by providing end-to-end support to clients, including defining analysis scope, gathering relevant data, executing analyses, and presenting concise and relevant insights.
What you bring
Post-secondary degree in Business, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics or related field.
3+ years of experience in a finance or analytical role.
Knowledge and experience in data preparation, data analysis, and statistical tool sets including but not limited to SQL, Power BI, KNIME, and Excel.
Intermediate knowledge of SQL and best practices.
Experience working with large and complex datasets efficiently and a passion for digging into data.
Excellent attention to detail, a structured approach to analysis and the ability to develop logical arguments.
See the bigger picture of the problem you are trying to solve and will proactively seek new data to complement your analysis.
Recognized for your curiosity and growth mindset.
Superb verbal & written communication skills with application in influencing technical and non-technical clients with data.
Attention to detail, organized, motivated self-starter with an ability to thrive in a growth environment where business requirements are ever evolving.
Hybrid
We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.
About Us
Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited ("CTC") is one of Canada's most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.
Accommodations
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.