Senior Financial Analyst

Summary of Duties

The Finance department of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre has an immediate opening for a permanent Senior Financial Analyst.  The Senior Financial Analyst will play a key role in providing evidence based-analysis for effective decision-making. Activities include development of the annual operating budget, forecasting and multi-year planning process and supporting the programs and the Senior Leadership team.   The successful candidate must have demonstrated success working independently as a self-starter in a fast paced environment along with excellent inter-personal skills. 

Applicants must include a cover letter and specify salary expectations. Only applicants specifying salary expectations in a cover letter will be considered.

Reporting to the Manager – Financial Planning & Analysis, this position will provide ongoing leadership and financial support to an assigned portfolio of programs from a forecasting and financial planning perspective including:

• Working with Managers, Directors and VPs to lead the development of the annual budget and forecast processes, including identifying and presenting key risks and opportunities as part of Multi-Year Operating Plan process
• Preparing and presenting monthly management reports to evaluate and recommend solutions to financial and operational issues
• Providing financial support and expertise in evaluating various business initiatives and reinvestment strategies
• Assisting in the development of briefing notes and reports for presentation to senior management, standing committees, and to the ministry
• Financial Modeling including sensitivity analysis, contribution margin, scenario analysis, costing, rate/volume analysis, budget modeling, and any other financial analysis required by senior management
• Representing Financial Planning & Analysis on operation and program sub-committees
• Ad-hoc analysis, projects and other assignments as required

Qualifications/Skills

• 5+ years of financial analysis experience including budgeting and planning experience in a hospital or industry setting
• Mandatory Accounting Designation - CPA-CA, CPA-CMA, CPA-CGA
• Excellent analytical skills, with attention to explaining key variances
• Expert in modeling business cases and building management reports
• Ability to interpret large amounts of financial and non-financial data and summarize it to present meaningful information to various levels of management
• Ability to take initiative and be proactive in owning projects and processes, working independently without detailed instruction
• Multi-tasker with a solid sense of prioritization and the ability to work under pressure; well organized
• Problem solver with a results-oriented approach; confident in dealing with operations
• High proficiency using Microsoft Office programs, primarily Excel, Word and PowerPoint mandatory and experience in building Excel Macros would be preferred
• Experience in a major ERP (e.g. SAP) and Business Intelligence (e.g. Cognos TM1 Planning Analytics, Microsoft PowerBI) system preferred
• Excellent interpersonal (verbal and written) communication skills with all levels of management including Senior Executives