Senior Financial Analyst

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Job Description

Location: Toronto, Canada or Bristol, UK (Hybrid)

In this position, you'll be based in the Toronto or Bristol office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.

We give you a world of potential

Computershare is renowned for its expertise in data management, high volume transaction processing, payments and communications. Many of the world's leading organizations use these core competencies to help maximize the value of relationships with their investors, employees, creditors, members and customers. Our vision is to leverage our global network, specialized technology, local and global financial markets expertise and unsurpassed service levels to keep Computershare at the forefront of the industry. As the perfect partner for organizations seeking consolidated tailored solutions and superior service, we constantly strive to widen the gap in quality between us and our competitors.

The Finance function is responsible for providing transactional accounting services; treasury, financial planning, analysis, reporting and commercial finance support to all business units and functions throughout Computershare, across all global locations.

This position will be an integral part of the Financial Planning and Analysis team. The role will be responsible for delivering and producing management reporting requirements for Senior Management.

A role you will love

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, the Senior Finance Analyst will play a key role in producing, analyzing and consolidating global business headlines from key financial reports. They will be responsible for maintaining, delivering, and improving analytical processes that supports senior management in providing clear insights to drive the future long-term performance of the business.

The role consolidates global results, analyzes financial data including drafting resulting commentaries, build reports, manages the structural business hierarchies, in collaboration with Finance and business teams in multiple countries.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Head of FP&A in delivering global month end, forecast, and budget reporting
• Complete enhancing analysis such as producing:
  • Customer Analysis - profitability, cross selling, single view, product offerings, product profitability
  • Competitor Analysis - CPU differentiation, SWOT analysis, opportunities for competitive advantage
  • Product - holistic view of products, profitability analysis and new product development
  • Focus on profitable and identify future innovative potential growth areas
• Consolidate and review global commentary from multiple sources for month end, forecast and budget. Commentaries includes month end financial drivers, CAPEX, FTE and other adhoc items.
• Develop global business headlines summarizing the drivers for month end, forecasts and budget
• Maintain reports, working with each of the regions to make sure we are receiving what is needed to consolidate, adjusting/adapting to adhoc items that come up throughout the process
• Completes enhancing analysis to drive growth and operational efficiencies. including; month end processing, management review of budget vs. actual results as well as prior year comparisons and trend analysis.
• Support the development of board decks which will include creating PowerPoint slides and chart of accounts by reviewing and approving all cost centers and accounts.
• Supports the delivery of process simplification and standardization as well as ensuring appropriate and optimally efficient policies, procedures and controls are maintained and regularly reviewed, making improvements as necessary
• As a key financial liaison, the BU Finance Analyst will collaborate with the various departments across the business unit.
• Identify opportunities for continual process improvements

What will you bring to the role?

Essential

• Minimum 2 years of financial and analytical experience.
• ACA/ACCA/CIMA qualified (or local equivalent)
• Bachelor's degree (B.A./B.S.) or equivalent in finance, accounting or related discipline.

Desirable

• Master's degree in a quantitative field or relevant field
• Experience with visualization software such as Tableau
• ERP (Oracle, SAP, Workday, other) experience

Rewards designed for you

Flexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle.

Health and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family.

Invest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you'll receive a company contribution as well.

Extra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future.

And more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. Our handbook will help you find out more about our rewards and life at Computershare, visit computershare.com/careers-handbook.

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About Us

A company to be proud of

We're a global leader in financial administration with over 12,000 employees across more than 22 different countries. At Computershare, it's more than just a job, our open and inclusive culture means that we will help you to grow, to move forward and make the most of our world of opportunities.

A diverse and inclusive place to work

At Computershare we value diversity and welcome applications from everyone, believing that an equal and inclusive culture is key to excellent results. One of the greatest advantages for our organisation is the talent and diversity of our people and we strive to ensure all our employees have an equal opportunity to contribute their ideas, bring their personality to their work and showcase their skills. For support with accommodations or adjustments during our recruitment process please visit computershare.com/access for further information.

Computershare is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national or ethnic origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other characteristics protected by applicable law.

About the Team

Our Shared Services teams support all of our business lines behind the scenes. Across the world, we have a range of specialisms that ensure the delivery of our business priorities. These include Technology, Information Security, Finance, Risk, Audit, Governance, Marketing and Communications as well as our People team. Join our strategic team and help us look after everything from creating an amazing end to end employee journey to keeping our systems safe. You'll be looking after our people, our clients and their customers, whilst maintaining our exceptional standards around the globe.