City : St. Jacobs, Ontario, Canada

Category : Finance

Industry : Retail

Employer : Home Hardware

• Develop in-depth knowledge of the business, operations, and processes, as well as contribute to the implementation of business plans.
• Act as a Finance partner to provide functional support to the Leadership Team and management; work closely with them to prioritize deliverables and ensure deliverables are met in a timely manner.
• Act as a key business partner to the operational business areas, providing financial information, analytics, and recommendations to facilitate decision-making and target-setting.
• Lead the development and implementation of improved management and business reporting to facilitate the understanding of business results and enable financial management reporting, forecasting, planning and analysis.
• Monitor operational and financial performance models, highlighting trends and performing variance analysis.
• Provide guidance, change management and training to business support areas, while navigating a transformation of systems, processes, and reporting, as well as implement new tools and processes.
• Lead annual financial planning process for functional support areas by working collaboratively with business leaders on the development of budgeting tools and variance analytics.
• Collaborate with the Director, Finance team and related stakeholders in providing advice and business insights to grow the business while understanding the opportunities and risks.
• Provide strong leadership, ongoing coaching, development support for direct reports.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance or Accounting, with a CPA designation (preferred); with 5 to 10 years’ experience in data analytics, management reporting, financial planning, and analysis.
• Strong collaboration skills with the ability to establish credibility cross-functionally in order to influence decision making and positively impact business performance.
• Experience in interacting and consulting with senior leadership and supporting with executive level presentations and board reports.
• Strong data analytics skills with a proven ability to synthesize large volumes of data from multiple sources, and autonomously build compelling business cases.
• Data-driven with the ability to develop and implement business management tools, analyze and review numbers and trends, and recommend solutions to support senior leader decision-making.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills as well as presentation skills. Solid confidence to lead by example, demonstrating high personal energy.
• Consumer insights and analytics exposure. Strong Microsoft Office skills.
• Highly developed business and financial acumen to drive business performance, embracing change and innovation.
• Motivated individual with excellent organizational, interpersonal, consultative, and negotiating skills; with the ability to lead and coach a team.
• Ability to adapt to changing business needs, multi-task several priorities and ability to work autonomously.
• Ability to work additional or varied hours as required to fulfill the responsibilities of the position.