Financial Analyst III

Location:
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA Edmonton, AB, CA Montreal, Quebec, CA Toronto, ON, CA

Req ID: 27808

Jobs by Category: People & Culture, Finance and Corporate Affairs

Job Function: Finance

Status: Full Time

Schedule: Regular

Join our team and what we’ll accomplish together

The Financial Planning & Analysis for the Customer Technology Excellence (CTE) Finance team provides financial leadership to a group enabling technology deployment and driving operational efficiencies having impact across all TELUS business units. As their trusted partners, we help solve complex business challenges and help achieve operational and strategic goals. We provide insights and recommendations that influence key decisions made by executives. Decisions that optimize resources, minimize risks, drive operational excellence, impact customer and team member experiences, and shape future business growth.

Here’s the impact you’ll make

As Customer Technology Excellence (CTE) trusted partners, our Financial Planning & Analysis Finance team helps solve complex business challenges and help achieve operational and strategic goals. Our team is looking for YOU – someone just as motivated about people as they are about financial analysis! Each day, you will bring your a-game with value-add financial reporting, performance variance analysis, budgeting, and potential projects & initiatives. At the core of your talents is your innate ability to communicate; you transform your in-depth financial analysis into a clear format that stakeholders understand.

This role will report to the Controller, Financial Planning & Analysis – Reliability Center of Excellence (RoCoE) and will work closely with Controllers and Analysts supporting CTE Finance Corporate reporting group.

Here’s how

As a Financial Analyst III, you will be the trusted finance partner to CTE:

Month End & Forecasting cycle

Prepare monthly reports, variance analysis, and engaging presentations for various stakeholders, including senior management

Assist with journal entries, analysis of results for completeness and accuracy

Track and accurately calculate the headcount, salary & benefits to update the forecast

Update and manage the long range plan (3-yr Financial Plan, budget, triage) files

Maintain SAP Hierarchy and organizational changes and manage the budget transfer process

Responsible for updating and managing the macro driven monthly results & forecasting file

Digital Transformation Financial support

Review, support, and provide economic modeling support for Business cases

Prime program FP&A cycle – Multi year financial model and liaise with the business units, budget, triage, actuals reporting and variance explanation

Liaise with all other financial areas – e.g. Corp. & Business Units FP&A team, Capital & Asset Management, Accounting Policy, Taxation, etc.)

Prepare quarterly and monthly financial reports & analysis to ensure compliance to program governance framework and liaise with team to provide update to scorecard metrics

Adhoc & Other

Complete ad-hoc investigations, analysis and reporting as required

Identify and implement processes under your prevue

Get involved and learn about the business we support

You’re the missing piece of the puzzle:
Appreciated for owning and proactively addressing challenges and issues

Noted to be detail-oriented while maintaining focus on the big picture

Recognized for your business insight, problem solving skills, advanced analytical and financial modelling skills

Demonstrate ownership, initiative, showing a sense of urgency and self-direction

Ability to work with multiple systems, extract, reconcile, and interpret data

Sought out for your strong communication and presentation skills, and you convey insights, concepts and ideas in a clear and simple manner

Creative self-starter with very strong interpersonal, communication, presentation and time-management skills

Respected as a collaborative partner who cultivates positive relationships and influences others, including senior leaders

Able to effectively problem solve, manage multiple deliverables to meet deadlines and goals in fast-paced, ever-changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment

Focused on continuous improvement; must be able to communicate learning’s from prior projects to improve new ones

Minimum of 3 years of relevant financial analysis experience

Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation is an asset (or working towards)

Great-to-haves

Experience in the telecommunications, IT-systems and/or security sector

Knowledge of IFRS 16 (International Financial Reporting Standards)

Knowledge of SAP and Hyperion

Proficient knowledge of MS Office (advanced Excel and Access to build complex IF type of statements, code macros and VBA)

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