Financial Analyst

Job Title: Financial Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: Fulltime

Toronto, Ontario, 4 days on-site

Help us boldly shape retail in Canada
Canadian Tire Corporation’s (CTC) rich heritage of serving Canadians from coast-to-coast dates back to 1922. Our vision is to become the #1 retail brand in Canada, and we are focused on innovating and making important investments in our business, especially when it comes to our people. To reach our goal, we need the best talent to help us evolve and drive change across the business – and boldly help shape Canada’s retail industry. As we strive to be at the forefront of a complex and vastly changing retail industry, it is an exciting time to join the Canadian Tire family of companies.

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 planning & reporting, analysis, and advice. Reporting to the AVP, CTR, Specialty Banners and IT FP&A, this role helps drive the organization to achieve its financial and strategic targets by providing financial insights, partnering with business clients, and leading efficiency improvements during a period of significant transformation.  

We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Senior Financial Analyst of FP&A to support various initiatives across the IT portfolio. This role will deliver seamless and timely forward looking financial and business information, as well as actionable value-added business insights to key executive decision makers. The ideal candidate will possess strong financial acumen and communication skills, be a self-starter with the proven ability to deliver results.

What you will do

• Develop understanding of major financial performance drivers and assist business decision makers in the development of action plans to meet financial goals and mitigate risks
• Preparation of meaningful and innovative performance reporting that communicates the story behind the financial performance to senior management
• Collaborate across the organization to ensure the financial impacts of key strategic initiatives are accurately reflected within our financial plans and forecasts
• Be a leader of change – challenging current approaches and fostering new ways of approaching business questions
• Bring efficiencies to the reporting and forecasting and planning processes

Who you are
We are looking for individuals who are:

• Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
• Action oriented, outcome focused, and critical thinker with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across the corporation
• Collaborative team players, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward

If you’re innovative, curious, determined, won’t accept the status quo and ready to take on new challenges, then this is the place to be

What you bring

• Innovative mindset to help drive the transformation of the broader FP&A team
• Drive – Results oriented and organized, with the ability to prioritize and manage multiple responsibilities, maintaining attention to detail while retaining focus on the big picture
• Critical Thinking – Be able to think through business problems wholistically
• Comfortable analyzing and interpreting large, complex datasets from multiple sources to drive business insights and strategic decisions to identify trends, variances, and opportunities
• Advanced proficiency in Excel, including (complex formulas, pivot tales, Power Query, and data modeling) is essential.
• Reporting and forecasting experience, as well as experience with financial modeling including experience using Power BI
• University degree in Business, Accounting, or Finance
• 1 to 3 years progressive experience in finance roles
• Working towards a professional accounting/financial designation (CPA, CFA), or Post Graduate Degree (MBA) considered an asset

About Canadian Tire Corporation
Canadian Tire and its family of companies are boldly shaping retail in Canada, and we continue to deliver a positive experience for our customers. As one of the most trusted brands in Canada, our employees take pride in the work we do across the country. It’s more than the iconic triangle that keeps our employees around. From benefits and perks, to learning and development opportunities, to our commitment to Jumpstart – these are some of the many reasons why Canadian Tire Corporation is one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging 
We are committed to fostering an environment where belonging thrives, and diversity, inclusion and equity are infused into everything we do. We believe in building an organizational culture where people are consistently treated with dignity while respecting individual religion, nationality, gender, race, age, perceived ability, spoken language, sexual orientation, and identification. We are united in our purpose of being here to help make life in Canada better.

Accommodations  
We stand firm in our Core Value that inclusion is a must. We welcome and encourage candidates from equity-seeking groups such as people who identify as racialized, Indigenous, 2SLGBTQIA+, women, people with disabilities, and beyond. Should you require any accommodation in applying for this role, or throughout the interview process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to help meet your needs.