21 Oct
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Resource Label Group
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Toronto
21 Oct
Resource Label Group
Toronto
Nature & Scope
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will join the Finance team and serve as a key business partner across Resource Label Group Canada's operations and commercial functions. The role supports both the Scarborough and Montreal operations and requires close collaboration with leaders across Finance, Operations, Sales, Customer Service, and other functions to ensure consistent financial performance management and decision support across the organization. The Senior Financial Analyst plays a critical role in supporting strategic and operational decision-making through insightful financial analysis, forecasting, business modeling, and performance reporting. You will work closely with leaders across Finance, Operations, Sales, and other functions to provide meaningful analysis and recommendations that drive profitability, improve efficiency, optimize working capital, and support business growth. In this role, you will gather and analyze financial and operational data, assess data quality, identify trends and outliers, and develop actionable insights related to costs, profitability, inventory management, revenue opportunities, and overall business performance. Projects may range from monthly budget-to-actual analysis and capital expenditure ROI evaluations to headcount planning, cost reduction initiatives, customer profitability analysis, and dashboard development. The ideal candidate is naturally curious, highly analytical, and comfortable working with large datasets. They possess solid communication skills and can effectively present complex financial information in a concise and understandable manner to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Major Responsibilities
Financial Planning & Analysis
- Prepare and analyze monthly financial results, comparing actual performance against budgets, forecasts, and prior-year results.
- Identify key business drivers, trends, risks, and opportunities and provide actionable recommendations to management.
- Support the monthly forecasting process and annual budget cycle.
- Develop and maintain financial models to support business planning, headcount forecasting, capital investments, and strategic initiatives.
- Partner with department leaders to develop budgets and provide variance analysis and performance reporting.
- Track and report cost savings initiatives against approved business plans.
- Continuously improve planning processes, reporting accuracy, and forecasting effectiveness.
- Lead and support ad hoc financial analyses and special projects as required.
Costing & Operational Finance
- Develop and maintain models that analyze production metrics, schedules, and operating costs versus actual performance.
- Participate in daily production meetings, reviewing key operating metrics, highlighting variances, and providing financial insights.
- Identify, quantify, and monitor cost reduction and operational improvement opportunities across both facilities.
- Analyze spending patterns, cost structures,
and operational efficiencies to support sustainable cost optimization initiatives.
- Partner with Operations to drive performance improvements and support data-driven decision-making.
- Identify opportunities to improve efficiency, reporting quality, financial performance, and business outcomes.
Commercial Finance & Business Partnering
- Analyze customer transactions, pricing, and profitability trends to identify revenue leakage and margin improvement opportunities.
- Maintain and enhance Customer Job Margin and Profitability reporting to support commercial decision-making.
- Prepare sales reporting by product category, customer, and currency (CAD/USD).
- Prepare and maintain order backlog and pending sales reports to support monthly revenue forecasting.
- Partner with commercial leaders to evaluate business performance and support strategic growth initiatives.
Business Intelligence & Reporting
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, and analytical tools using Power BI and other business intelligence platforms.
- Create and enhance KPIs and performance metrics that provide meaningful insights to business stakeholders.
- Develop centralized reporting solutions that improve visibility into business performance and support informed decision-making.
- Ensure financial information is communicated clearly and effectively to audiences with varying levels of financial expertise.
- Promote data-driven decision-making through analysis, reporting, and stakeholder education.
Other Duties
- Support cross-functional initiatives and continuous improvement projects.
- Assist with audit requests and financial data analysis as required.
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📌 Senior Financial Analyst (Toronto)
🏢 Resource Label Group
📍 Toronto