Financial Analyst III
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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 and what we'll accomplish together
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 – Customer Network Implementation (CNI) and will work closely with Controllers and Analysts supporting CTE Finance Corporate reporting group.
Here’s how
- 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
- Review, support, and provide Finance guidance for various business programs
- Liaise with all other financial areas - e.g. Corp. & Business Units FP&A team, Capital & Asset Management, Accounting Policy, Taxation, etc.)
- Track and review program performance to ensure business reasonability and continuity
- Involve in Capital Lease end to end process
- Complete ad-hoc investigations, analysis and reporting as required, i.e. BCH OH negotiation.
- 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, Security and/or technology 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)