Financial Analyst Full-time Job

What you’ll do

Our Finance team plays a key role in helping us stay competitive in the ever-changing retail environment by providing accurate, timely, and high-quality financial reporting, analysis, and advice to our business. Reporting to the Manager of FP&A supporting CTR, this role supports our Canadian Tire Retail partners to provide financial counsel in planning, forecasting, reporting, and analyzing CTC’s anchor retail business.

• Provide excellent support to client groups by monitoring results versus budget / forecast / prior year and providing thorough analyses, and investigating variances while identifying risks and opportunities that will impact future periods

• Produce insightful, meaningful, and analytical commentary and reporting that can assist financial and non-financial stakeholders to facilitate decision making

• Prepare forward-looking, accurate, and timely annual budgets and mid-year forecasts pertaining to various margin line items, leveraging historical trends and key assumptions to guide future expectations

• Anticipate evolving financial performance reporting needs and work with cross-functional teams to drive improvements and process changes

• Participate as a subject matter expert in special projects and ad hoc analysis as required

 

What you bring

• University degree or College diploma in Business, Finance/Accounting, or business-related discipline

• Are currently pursuing or have obtained an accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, CGA)

• 2+ years in a business or financial analysis role

• Budgeting, forecasting, and planning experience, as well as experience with financial modeling.

• Exceptional problem-solving and critical-thinking skills.

• Excellent communication skills; superior cross functional relationship/collaboration skills.

• Attention to detail, organized, motivated self-starter and with ability to thrive in an environment responsive to changing business requirements.

• Working knowledge of PeopleSoft, HFM and SQL is an asset

 

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.

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (CTC) is one of Canadas 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.