Finance Senior Manager Job

As a Finance Senior Manager at Interac Corp. you will be providing support for the Planning & Analysis function, will be a Finance Business Partner to key budget owners in the organization and be part of a high performing team. Finance Manager provides decision support through the use of management & financial reporting, financial modeling, and problem-solving support to help drive revenue, manage costs, maximize efficiencies and business value.

This role will be mainly focused on supporting stakeholders of Digital ID Business Unit and Innovation Team and drive the delivery and growth of new offerings.

Reporting directly to the Finance Director.

This position must understand the business drivers and actively support business partners in all financial related matters impacting the business including revenue models development, pricing decisions, support development of commercial models for new businesses, develop business cases for new initiatives. This role is responsible to validate month-end results, assist in preparing monthly management reporting and provide board financial inputs. Position is also responsible for supporting planning process, including the annual budget and the multiple forecasts throughout the year.

Significant portion of time will be allocated to Interac’s Digital ID business.

Projects, New Businesses Support:

• Lead/Assist with business casing by creating financial models to determine feasibility of projects including challenging assumptions & data

• Support development of commercial models, pricing, KPI’s, and dashboards for new business units/products to generate value-added insights and recommendations to drive business growth

• Participate in multi-year strategy work

• Assists in developing and maintaining revenue models to support short-term and long-term projections

• Manage Innovation department projects

• Conduct comprehensive analysis on ad-hoc requests related to product/service pricing

• Support setting billing and reporting, analytics to deliver insight and value to business  

• Develop good knowledge of product by working with subject matter experts and provide financial perspective and guidance to support business performance objectives 

• Preparing, reviewing, and communicating financial results to senior management and key stakeholders

Financial Planning Support, Business Partnering, Business Decisions Support:

• Work with business partners to develop forecasts & budget, including multi-year rolling forecasts. Gather financial and qualitative information to perform due diligence and validation

• Assist with the analysis of the departmental inputs and preparation of the financial projections

• Ensure all contractual commitments are accounted for in the annual plan and forecast

• Support headcount projection and resources allocation

• Work with senior decision makers and stakeholders across Finance, Product, other departments, manage cross-functional initiatives 

• Build strong partnerships and credibility with business partners to deliver tangible impact

• Assist with the analysis of the departmental inputs and preparation of the financial projections

• Advise business owner on options to get financials on track to budget, help identify risks and opportunities

• Provide financial inputs to Management reports, Board/Shareholder reporting, and a valuation model

• Support business owners with vendor discussions/negotiations, where requested

Month End Reporting:

• Lead in preparing and reviewing business unit financial results, including making appropriate accruals

• Manage Intercompany allocations

• Assist in the preparation of monthly financial packages inclusive of variance commentary

• Meet with budget owners monthly to review results, explain variances against budget &/or forecast, and offer directions to help budget owners to meet financial targets

• Analyze information and develop reports to drive the business to improve performance

• Support Intercompany accruals and reconciliation, shared resources allocations

Additional Accountabilities:

• Assist in creation of various reports and presentations for management and for board packages

• Support continuous process improvement, transformation, and modernization of financial processes

• Other financial projects as required

What you bring?

• University degree in accounting or finance

• A Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or relevant accounting degree and possess experience in the operations of a finance function

• Minimum 7+ years of experience in managing budgeting, forecasting and monthly financial statement analysis, business partnering, business casing

• Business casing, financial modelling experience

• Advanced Excel Modeling Skills

• Strategic mindset, solid problem-solving skills, highly analytical, ability to clearly define problem and develop solutions

• Excellent communication and influencing skills; ability to create story behind numbers

• Team player attitude, ability to develop strong working relationships with related team members, business partners

• Open, customer-centric, positive attitude

• Self-starter

• Experience in JDE or other enterprise accounting software is an asset