Senior Financial Analyst

Location: Vancouver, BC (ONSITE)

Compensation: $95,000 – $115,000 CAD + benefits

ABOUT STRIVE

STRIVE Recruitment is a specialist recruitment firm offering proactive recruitment solutions in the areas of Accounting & Finance, Corporate Administration, Operations and Technology. We pride ourselves on building long-term relationships with both clients and candidates by delivering an exceptional recruitment experience rooted in honesty, transparency, and market expertise.

THE CLIENT

Our client is a Vancouver-based, purpose-driven consumer products company that has built an impressive global presence through innovation, creativity, and a commitment to sustainability. Their products are trusted by thousands of businesses around the world, helping brands deliver exceptional customer experiences while reducing their environmental impact.

Despite their international success, they've maintained an entrepreneurial and collaborative culture where employees are empowered to take ownership, embrace new ideas, and continuously improve. With ambitious growth plans and continued international expansion, they are investing heavily in their finance function and are seeking an experienced Financial Controller to help support the next stage of their journey.

THE ROLE

This is a newly created position and the first dedicated FP&A hire within the organization, making it an excellent opportunity for someone who wants genuine ownership and the ability to shape how FP&A operates. Reporting directly to the VP of Finance/Controller, you will work closely with Sales, Operations and Supply Chain, while also providing analysis and reporting that supports senior leadership and the Board. You will have significant exposure to both strategic and commercial decision-making, with responsibility for building scalable forecasting, budgeting, reporting and analytical processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the company's rolling cash flow forecasting process, including short- and long-term forecasting.
• Lead the annual budgeting process from planning and stakeholder engagement through to consolidated reporting.
• Rebuild and enhance monthly management reporting to provide meaningful insight into business performance.
• Analyze revenue, margins, customer behaviour, products, channels and geographic performance.
• Partner with Sales, Operations and Supply Chain to provide actionable financial analysis.
• Develop repeatable forecasting and reforecasting processes.
• Build dashboards and reporting tools that enable business leaders to access insights independently.
• Develop financial models and data-driven analytical tools that can scale with the business.
• Establish and maintain consistent business metrics and reporting definitions.
• Support Board and investor reporting, including cash flow and covenant analysis.
• Identify opportunities to automate and improve financial analysis and reporting.

REQUIREMENTS

• 4+ years of experience in FP&A, commercial finance, corporate finance, consulting or a highly analytical role.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets and financial modelling capabilities.
• Experience building driver-based forecasts and financial models from scratch.
• Exposure to SQL and the ability to independently extract and work with data.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI, Tableau or a similar reporting/BI platform.
• Comfortable working with complex, multi-entity and multi-currency data.
• Strong commercial acumen and business partnering skills.
• Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-finance stakeholders.
• A proactive, analytical mindset with a genuine interest in improving how finance operates.
• Demonstrated experience building models, reporting processes or dashboards that have had lasting business impact.

Nice to Have

• E-commerce, DTC, manufacturing or physical-product experience.
• International or multi-entity finance experience.
• Experience working through finance transformation, including systems, processes or reporting changes.
• Python or similar data-analysis experience.
• Practical experience using AI to automate, improve or solve business problems.

WHY THIS ROLE?

This is not a traditional reporting-focused FP&A role. You will be joining at an exciting point in the company's growth and will have the opportunity to build the FP&A function from the ground up. You will have direct exposure to senior leadership, meaningful influence over financial strategy and the opportunity to implement tools, processes and models that will continue to shape the business as it grows.