About the Company

Our client is a financial services company. They are looking for a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to join their team!

Why Work Here

World class financial services company with operations in Canada and Europe

Excellent boss that this role will report to that will provide lots of coaching and guidance

Excellent team and culture

About the Opportunity

Driving Business Performance

Ensures all business decisions are supported by high-quality financial analysis with the necessary data resources, analytical tools, structured frameworks, and standard methodologies.

Drives quality Expense planning ensuring business activities are being built, culminating in expense plans and performance targets being set and corporate targets are met!

Proactively manage expenses to provide senior management with potential upsides/downsides that can be effectively used to achieve multi-year expense targets.

Advises Business Unit Operational Reviews and Expense Planning processes, engages business leaders and leverages standard methodologies and common processes.

Compare expense performance against industry benchmarks using WARD benchmarking study and provide recommendations to senior management to improve efficiency & business performance.

Leverages deep generalist knowledge, interprets/synthesizes, and delivers timely management information that contributes to beneficial decision support.

Ensures that financial support is provided to initiatives that contribute to the business.

Cost Management

Establishes and implements a framework to drive expense management discipline and focus within the business – identifying and reducing non-value-added costs in associated business segments.

Ensures the business uses relevant and reliable product/customer/segment cost information.

Understands the long-term cost structure of our business and takes an active role in the cost management process.

Understand, challenge and account for Group Recharges

Relationship Management

Aligns FP&A with other adjacent functions such as Capital, Actuarial, Pricing, and Claims and coordinates cross-functional deliverables as they relate to both Corporate Planning and the broader FP&A team

Work closely with entire FP&A team and outside collaborators to stay ahead of potential headwinds/tailwinds to expenses.

Able to provide insights into the future, see the big picture, influence the senior management team, takes the initiative proactively and focuses on aligning Finance and other functions within the business.

Responsible for growing the relationships with the FP&A team and beyond as a partner providing outstanding client experience and strengthening the relationships across boundaries.

Strategic Management

Ensures accurate financial assumptions in corporate and business unit strategic planning processes are consistently made

Participates effectively in the development of expense planning models that reflect key drivers of value and a driven environment

Provides a consistent approach which assists the business in measuring its performance against strategy and operating plans

Plays a key role in ensuring that competitive analyses are developed for the business

Brings a digital-first and customer-centric mentality

Performance Measurement and Management Control

Understands key financial and operational drivers of performance and helps to integrate them consistently in business management reporting processes

Supports the development/refinement of appropriate efficiency metrics, dashboards and financial/nonfinancial KPIs to enable effective performance management.

Tracks and analyzes information that is predictive and actionable

Coordinates the communication of performance towards goals and strategies of the business.

Establishes and drives forward-looking planning/budgeting processes ensuring alignment between financial and strategic plans.

Governance/Stewardship Role

Coordinates the deployment of financial controls across the business that is effective at preventing undesirable risks

Aligns finance processes and priorities with those of the business and is flexible at adapting finance processes to meet the business's changing needs

Plays an upfront and early role in product decision-making processes

About You

CPA or equivalent

5+ years post-qualification financial management experience (3-5 years of which, preferably in a P&C organization)

Demonstrable understanding and strategic perspective on the insurance industry

Experience with contract negotiation and management, business modelling, acquisitions and integration

Sound understanding of financial, strategic and performance management processes

Salary

$90,000 to $100,000/year

How to Apply

Click the "Apply Now" button and follow the instructions to submit your resume. Please know that we only accept documents in MS Word or Rich Text formats. When referencing this job, quote # 409217. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client's requirements for this role.