Senior Financial Planning Analyst

About this role

The Senior FP&A Analyst will be based in head office located in Toronto and will report to the Director, Finance. The Senior FP&A Analyst will play a critical role in driving financial insight, supporting strategic decision‑making, and enhancing reporting and forecasting capabilities across the organization. This position requires a highly analytical problem‑solver who can go beyond surface-level symptoms to identify root causes, develop sustainable solutions, and communicate insights in a clear, business‑friendly manner.

Responsibilities

• Build, enhance, and maintain sophisticated financial models in Excel that support forecasting, annual budgets, long‑range planning, and scenario analysis.
• Ensure models are dynamic, assumption‑driven, and easily updated as business conditions change.
• Partner with business leaders to translate operational drivers into financial outcomes.
• Extract, transform, and analyze financial and operational data using SQL, Power BI, or related tools.
• Build dashboards, KPI reports, and analytics that help leadership identify trends, risks, opportunities, and performance gaps across multiple manufacturing sites.
• Support continuous improvement of reporting processes, system integrations, and data governance.
• Act as a first‑line problem solver, digging into data and processes to identify root causes.
• Lead or support investigations into variance drivers, cost changes, margin compression, productivity issues, or other anomalies.
• Propose data‑driven corrective actions and track implementation progress.
• Provide strong accounting expertise to support Controller teams, including month‑end close activities, reconciliations, journal entry review, and cost accounting fundamentals.
• Serve as a reliable back‑up to site or corporate Controllers as needed.
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, financial policies, and audit requirements.
• Translate complex financial outputs into clear, concise insights tailored for non‑financial ...