Senior Financial Analyst - Margin Accounting

About this role

What You’ll Do
Reporting to the Manager of Margin Accounting, this role provides unique insight into Canadian Tire’s retail banners, key business initiatives, and financial results. The Senior Financial Analyst will partner with cross-functional teams to ensure new programs, contracts, and business initiatives are appropriately evaluated and accounted for. The role is responsible for analyzing revenue and cost of sales, investigating trends and anomalies, supporting complex accounting assessments, and ensuring accurate financial reporting in accordance with accounting standards and company policies. Success in this position requires strong analytical and technical accounting skills, sound business judgment, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a dynamic environment.

• Serve as a key accounting partner for margin-related business initiatives across multiple banners, including Mark's, SportChek, PHL, Sports Experts, and PartSource.
• Provide accounting guidance and ensure appropriate treatment and policy decisions are applied to new programs, contracts, and business initiatives.
• Lead the development, maintenance, and enhancement of sales return provision models across multiple banners, analyzing trends, assumptions, and key drivers to ensure reserves are appropriate and supportable.
• Manage accounting for royalty arrangements across multiple banners, ensuring accurate financial recognition and reporting in accordance with contractual terms and accounting standards.
• Support month-end close activities, including the review of journal entries, account reconciliations, and financial analysis.
• Ensure the timely and accurate completion of all recurring financial reporting and deliverables.
• Report financial results, explain significant variances to prior year, budget, and forecast, and provide updates on key initiatives.
• Monitor and execute all key controls.
• Effectively manage communications and relationships with business partners, Accoun...