Senior Financial Analyst

What you’ll do

Reporting to the Manager, Accounting – Financial Services, the Senior Financial Analyst, Loyalty, provides insights into new projects, contracts, and financial results. This key role requires experience in building relationships with stakeholders to ensure proper accounting for CTC’s loyalty program and partnership initiatives. Responsibilities include analyzing and validating data output, investigating discrepancies, ensuring accurate reporting, and adhering to accounting standards and policies. Your technical expertise, analytical skills, effective communication, collaboration and prioritization of multiple deadlines are critical for success.

If you are curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to innovative approaches that help us evolve rapidly, then this is the place to be.

• Serve as the initial point of contact for new loyalty initiatives.

• Update and improve reporting processes while overseeing and supporting the team execution.

• Maintain and update various financial models supporting loyalty, ensuring reasonability and completeness.

• Review and/or prepare journal entries and account reconciliations as part of the monthly financial reporting and review process.

• Analyze significant variances, key metrics, and business trends, present findings to management.

• Ensure timely completion and accuracy of all monthly and quarterly deliverables.

• Research and lead discussions on evolving business and accounting issues in accordance with IFRS.

• Identify and execute improvements and efficiencies.

• Monitor and execute key controls.

• Effectively manage communications and relationships with business partners, accounting, FP&A, tax, and auditors.

• Participate in or lead a variety of ad hoc projects as assigned by the Manager.

• Provide supervision and coaching to other team members within the department.

What you bring:

• University Degree in Business, Finance or Accounting. CPA designation is required.

• Minimum 3 years experience in a medium/large company accounting department or accounting firm.

• IFRS expertise and experience with researching and developing accounting position documents is an asset.

• Strong problem solving, analytical and strategic thinking skills; able to see the “big picture” in a complex business environment.

• Natural curiosity to understand the reason behind transactions.

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills with a demonstrated ability to build and maintain strong relationships.

• Ability to thrive in an environment responsive to changing business requirements.

• Excellent attention to detail.

• Advanced PC skills including Microsoft suite (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint). Excel advanced

• Familiarity with internal and external audit processes.

• Working knowledge of PeopleSoft accounting system and Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) is an asset.

About Us

Canadian Tire Corporation, Limited (“CTC”) is one of Canada’s most admired and trusted companies. With more than 90 Owned Brands, 1,700 retail locations, financial services, exemplary e-commerce capabilities, and exciting market-leading merchandising strategies. We dream big and work as one to innovate with purpose for our customers at every level of our business, investing in new technologies and products, and doubling down on top talent to drive the company forward. We offer competitive salaries and wages to CTC employees, as well as store discounts, supported learning through our Triangle Learning Academy, Canadian Tire Profit Sharing, and retirement and savings programs for eligible employees. As part of our enhanced flex benefits program, we offer mental health benefits in the amount of $5,000 per year for benefits-eligible employees and their families, including total well-being, and mental health tools and resources for all employees. Join us in helping to make life in Canada better through living and working our Core Values: we are innovators and entrepreneurs at our core, outcomes drive us, inclusion is a must, we are stronger together and we take personal responsibility. It is an especially exciting time to join CTC and its family of companies where career opportunities are wide-ranging! Join us, where there's a place for you here.

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.