Senior Financial Analyst (FP&A)

If you are looking to join one of Canada’s fastest growing companies, goeasy Ltd. is the place for you! Recognized as Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures, GTA's Top 100 Employers, one of Canada’s Top 50 Fintech’s and North America’s Most Engaged Workplaces, we want the best and brightest to join our team.

We are a publicly traded company on the TSX with over 4000% shareholder return since 2001, goeasy operates two main business units. easyfinancial is our consumer lending business that offers secured and unsecured installment loans of up to $35,000 and easyhome is Canada’s largest merchandise lease-to-own company. It is our vision to provide everyday Canadians the path for a better tomorrow, today by giving them access to the credit they need and by offering them a second chance when they have been turned down by banks and traditional lenders. With a retail network of nearly 400 locations across Canada and over 1900 employees, we are able to build lasting relationships with our customers as we help them rebuild their credit and graduate towards prime rates and a brighter financial future.

The Senior Financial Analyst will collaborate with the Finance department and other stakeholders of the organization including senior finance leaders and executives to ensure that easyhome business unit level analysis is completed facilitating operational needs to be met. The incumbent will play a crucial role in monthly, quarterly, and year end processes, will be involved in various ad-hoc projects, and will deliver in-depth qualitative and quantitative analysis as they arise.  The individual will report to the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis. 

Responsibilities:

Strategic Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the budgeting process to develop accurate, frequent and timely re-forecasts for the easyhome business unit.
• Perform variance analysis comparing actual results to budget/forecast, providing meaningful commentary to management on its performance.
• Develop financial models incorporating business initiatives into the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Monitor and report on economic, industry, consumer, and competitive developments.
• Work proactively to improve operations, processes and policies to improve alignment with business plan.

Data Analysis

• Assist with various projects and initiatives through data sourcing, exploration, cleanup, manipulation and design.
• Support data validation, consolidation and cleansing processes to present data in a consumable form.

Enhance Management Reporting

• Prepare in depth analysis of business results – translating the reported financial results to actionable information on the Company’s business units.
• Prepare quarterly KPI reports, competitor analysis and other board documents.
• Assist with developing the appropriate set of performance metrics, to monitor performance and react accordingly.
• Continuously enhance the management reporting package, providing increasing in-depth analysis based on the evolving needs of the business and its leadership team.

Deliver Crucial Analysis and Line of Business Support

• Assist in the development of business cases for initiatives contemplated by the business units, and provide post-implementation analysis on newly executed initiatives.
• Develop strong understanding of the business, identifying areas of investigation and analysis in line with the Company’s goals and objectives.

Support Strategic Projects

• Support strategic projects such as acquisitions, divestitures, new business ventures and post-merger integration as they emerge.
• Assist and collaborate in financial modeling, valuation and due diligence efforts related to potential acquisitions.

Qualifications :

• Minimum Three years of relevant management and/or FP&A experience, preferably in the financial services industry.
• Professional designation (either: CPA, CFA or MBA).
• Advanced Excel skills, financial modeling, sensitivity analysis (DCF) and ROI, IRR, and NPV analyses.
• An entrepreneurial mindset and a roll-up-the-sleeves work ethic.
• Comfortable with rapid rates of change.
• Knowledge of MicroStrategy, Accounting Systems (ERP), and Bloomberg.
• Proficiency in SQL and SAS applications.
• Proven ability to exercise sound judgment and provide meaningful insights and recommendations, based on analytical and problem solving skills.
• Passion for driving results, with high level of integrity and dependability.
• A team player who is keen to take ownership of tasks and support other team members, and someone who can effectively collaborate and work with other functions.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, high-volume of tasks, deadlines, and requirements.
• Proven experience as a client focused business advisor with deep analytical and problem solving skills and an ability to build influential relationships with key stakeholders at all levels.
• Ability to translate data into information.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills with an ability to partner with various functions as needed.
• Solid IFRS knowledge.

Inclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment

goeasy is an equal opportunity employer. In addition, goeasy is committed to providing accommodations for applicants upon request at any stage of the recruitment process in accordance with all legislative requirements throughout Canada.   Please let us know if you require an accommodation due to a disability during any aspect of the recruitment process and we will work with you to address your needs.

Additional Information:

All candidates considered for hire must successfully pass a criminal background check, credit check, and validation of their work experience to qualify for hire.  We thank all interested applicants, however we will only be contacting those for interview who possess the skills and qualifications outlined above.

Why should you work for goeasy?

To learn more about our great company please click the links below:

www.goeasy.com/careers

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