Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A

About this role

The Canadian Tire FP&A team plays a critical role in enabling strong financial performance in an evolving retail environment. Reporting to the Manager, FP&A Petroleum & Partnerships, you will partner closely with the Petroleum team to understand results, deliver actionable insights, and influence business decisions.

This role combines financial analysis, business partnering, and storytelling with a strong focus on process improvement, automation, and building scalable FP&A tools that enhance the quality and efficiency of our deliverables.

What you’ll do

• Manage and take ownership of the end to end forecasting and budgeting process by collaborating with the Petroleum business and other functional groups across the organization

• Translate complex financial information into clear, insightful commentary for financial and non‑financial stakeholders.

• Identify financial risks and opportunities and support long‑term outlook planning aligned to strategic priorities.

• Build and enhance financial models that enable faster, more reliable, and more insightful analysis.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to streamline reporting, forecasting, and month‑end processes

What you bring

• Highly organized, detail-oriented while retaining focus on the “big picture”, motivated to thrive in a dynamic environment

• Critical Thinking – Be able to think through business problems wholistically

• Strong communication – Ability to communicate with people at all levels of the organization in a professional and competent manner.

• Advanced Excel skills (e.g., Power Query, Power Pivot, complex formulas); experience with automation is an asset.

• Excellent written and verbal communication; strong relationship‑building and influencing abilities.

• Minimum of 3 to 5 years business experience in an analytical field and solid understanding of financial statements (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow statements)

• Familiarity with HFM, financial systems, or ERP environments ...