Financial Analyst

Bring Your Reporting and Analysis Skills to Our Finance Team

CPA Ontario is currently in search of a Financial Analyst to prepare and analyze business and management reports in support of the organization’s planning and decision-making processes. In this role you will support our leaders with reporting and analytics, maintain existing reports, collaborate with members of the Finance team and cross-functionally with other departments, and contribute to annual budgeting and forecasting efforts.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Performing monthly and quarterly financial reporting, conducting variance analysis to support decision-making, track operational metrics, and communicate and analyze results with key stakeholders, including senior leadership.

Collaborating with Business Unit leads to develop, analyze, and support the budgeting and forecasting process, preparing presentations and summarizing the budget and forecast for the senior leadership and assessing assumptions, identifying risks and opportunities.  

Supporting the budgeting and forecasting process by designing and formatting relevant templates and consolidating budget data.

Collaborating cross-functionally with leadership across the organization to understand and translate business objectives and provide analysis to track key performance indicators and budgets.

Collaborating closely with the accounting team to ensure accurate financial reporting.

Who You Are:

A post-secondary graduate preferably in finance, accounting or business with a minimum 2 years’ experience as a Financial Analyst, and a deep understanding of financial reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

Enrolled in or in the process of completing the CPA certification program; a completed CPA designation and current member in good standing is strongly preferred. 

Skilled in the use of Microsoft Office products including Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams with advanced Microsoft Excel functions and data manipulation techniques, including but not limited to pivot tables, arrays, formulas, and macros. Experience with Power Query, Power BI or SQL query an asset.

Experienced at extracting data, creating queries, developing complex reports ad providing detailed analysis. 

Experienced at translating complex financial concepts into final reports and summaries for management presentations. 

An excellent communicator (verbal and written) with strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills and able to work as part a team and collaborate with others across multiple departments and at all levels.

Flexible working in a fast-paced, deadline-oriented environment where work outside of regular business hours may be required. 

What We Offer: 

A fast-paced environment. Collaboration, innovation and passionate professionals are at our core. We relentlessly pursue what’s next to unlock the full potential of you and us together. 

Flexible work environments. As part of our Hybrid work culture, we provide flexible, remote work options to support you in your career, in addition to in-office teamwork and collaboration.

Diversity and inclusion. We recognize the value in our differences and prioritize inclusivity to bring together the best talent to protect the public, advance the profession and enable CPAs to lead business and society forward. 

Ongoing learning and career growth. We want your career to skyrocket. We support career advancement and professional development opportunities with learning investments to promote your future growth. Thrive with us. 

Focus on your well-being. With industry leading benefits and wellness programs, including a healthy lifestyle allowance, mental health resources and more, we’re committed to your well-being.

Who We Are:  

We protect the public. We advance the profession. We enable CPAs to lead business and society forward. We ensure that our 103,000 members and 18,000 students meet the highest standards of integrity and expertise. We help them stay ahead of global market trends and abreast of regulatory change. CPAs represent a globally recognized, premium designation. Our Chartered Professional Accountants are valued by organizations in all industries for their financial expertise, strategic thinking, management skills and leadership. We believe that success happens when both business and society benefit. For information on the profession visit: cpaontario.ca 

We Appreciate Your Interest In CPA Ontario And This Position: 

At CPA Ontario, we are committed to building high-performance teams. Our selection process is thorough, and all candidate applications are reviewed. Should your qualifications and experience meet the requirements of this role, a member of our recruitment team will contact you. We encourage you to set up CPA Ontario job alerts for positions that align to your experience and career goals. 

CPA Ontario is an inclusive employer. Accommodation is available under the Ontario Human Rights Code. If you require a disability-related accommodation to participate in the recruitment process, please email accessibility@cpaontario.ca with “Accommodation Required” in the subject line to provide your contact information. A member of the Recruitment team will contact you within 48 hours.