Financial Business Analyst

Reporting to the Director of Financial Planning and Analysis structure this role plays an integral role focusing on delivering value added analysis to Canada-wide studio management, as well as the headquarters Finance team located in France. This analysis will be focused on both studio structure operations, as well as business case analysis/studies on significant Canada-wide topics.

What you'll do

• Help consolidate and analyze each studio budget and total Canada budget along with KPI metrics and analysis (high level, and deeper metrics along with studio comparisons/benchmarking) - highlight notable metrics with Managing Director decision making in mind
• Analyze the "story" behind the numbers - trends, major issues impacting the costs, raising awareness to potential future impacts/risks identified through key metrics - anticipate large upcoming studio decisions and how these will impact the key metrics
• Assist with quarterly “zone 1” managing director managing director meetings. budgets/KPI/benchmarking/concerning trends etc.
• Review the “zone 1” studio structure financial metrics quarterly with the headquarters Finance team in France – help to prepare and explain key metrics.
• Model building / forecasting at a macro level
• Ad hoc business cases / analysis as required (ROI focus for investments, leases, depts/services, gov't subsidies/investments, etc)
• Help identify, raise, and analyze opportunities to optimize costs.

What you'll bring to the team

• Strong analytical skills: ability to identify relevant metrics unique to each situation, comfortable thinking beyond the typical KPIs
• Strong presentation skills: ability to articulate and synthesize complicated topics into clear and concise communications both visually and verbally
• Database skills: ability to query and manipulate data to suit the study or business case. Tableau and SQL skills are an asset.
• Experience building business cases with an ROI focus
• Strong accounting fundamentals to help identify anomalies, trends, etc
• Strong MS Excel skills

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