Senior Financial Planning and Analysis Analyst

Description

Ready to deploy your financial expertise to turbo-charge your career by being at the forefront of our growth strategy?

Our team is looking for YOU - someone who is just as excited about numbers as they are about people! If you’re ready to hit the ground running and live and breathe our P&L daily and proactively flagging insights and opportunities, read on...

Our Team And What We’ll Accomplish Together

Help shape the future of home internet, entertainment and security. We’re embarking on an exciting new journey with the growth and transformation of our Home Solutions offerings in new and emerging markets.

You will be part of a finance team supporting our marketing and product leaders, empowering them with cutting-edge financial analytics and insights to drive strategic decisions. As part of TELUS' national expansion strategy, you will be a key contributor to our Financial Planning & Analysis function, supporting growth across new and emerging markets. At the core of your talents is your demonstrated ability to communicate; you transform your in-depth financial analysis into a clear format that stakeholders understand. If you're ready to deliver value-added financial reporting, forecasting, and analysis services to a dynamic business, keep reading…

Here’s How

Each day you will bring your A-game to the field of financial and performance analysis:

Month-end & Reporting

Provide value-added analysis for month end Financial (P&L analysis) and KPI reporting (financial & subscriber performance) aimed at determining the root cause of variance

Continuously work with marketing and product primes to ensure policy and control adherence, sufficiently mitigating financial & reporting risks to TELUS

Improve on current reporting processes to ensure clear and concise management reporting with automation where appropriate

Forecasting

Lead the preparation of monthly rolling forecast (“Triage”) which includes subscriber/rgu outlook (gross/deactivations/nets) as well as P&L line items (revenue , direct cost , opex)

Lead the preparation of Annual Budget and Strat Check (long-term model) which includes subscriber/rgu forecast (gross/deactivations/nets) as well as P&L line items (revenue , direct cost , opex)

Enhance/leverage existing driver-based forecasting models to improve our monthly and annual EBITDA planning (revenue and cost)

Ad-Hoc

Maintain and update SAP and Hyperion hierarchies

Lead miscellaneous profitability / break-even analysis calculations measuring ROI, performance evaluations and present the findings to the senior leadership team to assist in strategic decision making

Identify areas of risk/opportunity and coordinate team efforts to deliver solutions/action plans

Create and present organizational information and financial reports to team members and leadership including SVPs, VPs and Directors

Develop effective business relationships with peers, the senior finance team and serve as P&L prime to the business unit team

Qualifications

You're the missing piece of the puzzle

• Recognized for your ability to synthesize all complex internal and external drivers (i.e. market, economics, operations etc.) and articulate clear holistic strategic recommendations
• Known for your ability to effectively communicate complex financial analysis results and recommendations to peers & senior management team
• Noted for your focus on people and ability to forge strong cross-functional working relationships, collaborate across groups
• A creative and strategic thinker, with an ability to articulate ideas and gain buy-in from all levels in the organization
• You have a can-do attitude and superior organizational skills, you can scope out difficult tasks and projects, set objectives and goals, develop schedules and tackle multiple deliverables
• 5-7 years of relevant analytical experience

Great-to-haves

Experience with month-end close work, including journal entry preparation, account reconciliations and controls monitoring & remediation

Accounting Designation (CPA/CA, CMA, CGA) preferred

Business Finance, Accounting, Computer Science or Engineering related degree

Telecom/IT and/or Retail Operations work experience considered an asset