Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis

at  Grant Thornton

WHO WE ARE

You know those big cities that still feel like small towns? Where everyone’s friendly and helps each other out? That’s like Grant Thornton. Except here we’re all professionals and there isn’t a mayor or a general store. What we’re trying to say is that we’re a large and growing professional services firm that still feels like a community. We employ over 3000 people across Canada, and we truly care about our colleagues, our clients and the communities where we work and live. That’s what’s most important to us. We’re building a thriving organization that’s purpose driven and still want to remember what your favourite milkshake flavour is.

• Work with the FP&A team to create, develop and maintain the firm’s financial models, budgets, and forecasts
• Support the team during the budget and forecast process, including managing updates to fees and expense assumptions
• Collaborate and support various business support teams during the forecast and budget cycle (eg. Real Estate, Marketing, Partner Services, and People & Culture) by creating, maintaining, and improving financial planning models
• Prepare and analyze financial results for Business Units and Service Lines to assess performance against fees, expense targets, and key performance indicators, and report on significant variances
• Lead the development of National budget templates, working with other National Departments alongside the FP&A team
• Work with Business Unit Leadership and other National Departments to establish key relationships across the country
• Responsible for overseeing headcount forecasts, including requisition approval requests, and coordinating with support teams across the country (eg. People & Culture, Resourcing) to maintain timely reporting, and overseeing changes and updates made by the team
• Lead the preparation and distribution of monthly, budget and ad-hoc management financial reporting packages through preparing and pulling data from various sources, for leadership review
• Support the invoice approval process within our team and ensure accurate coding of invoices and appropriate approvals are maintained
• Evaluates and makes recommendations for best practices and process improvements as our team continues to grow and evolve
• Support the FP&A team through maintaining and organizing the team inbox, coordinating meetings, and creating tasks when needed