Senior Financial Analyst

at  Computershare

LOCATION: TORONTO, CANADA OR BRISTOL, UK (HYBRID)

In this position, you’ll be based in the Toronto or Bristol office for a minimum of three days a week, with the flexibility to work from home for some of your working week. Find out more about our flexible work culture at computershare.com/flex.

WE GIVE YOU A WORLD OF POTENTIAL

Computershare is renowned for its expertise in data management, high volume transaction processing, payments and communications. Many of the world’s leading organizations use these core competencies to help maximize the value of relationships with their investors, employees, creditors, members and customers. Our vision is to leverage our global network, specialized technology, local and global financial markets expertise and unsurpassed service levels to keep Computershare at the forefront of the industry. As the perfect partner for organizations seeking consolidated tailored solutions and superior service, we constantly strive to widen the gap in quality between us and our competitors.
The Finance function is responsible for providing transactional accounting services; treasury, financial planning, analysis, reporting and commercial finance support to all business units and functions throughout Computershare, across all global locations.
This position will be an integral part of the Financial Planning and Analysis team. The role will be responsible for delivering and producing management reporting requirements for Senior Management.

A ROLE YOU WILL LOVE

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, the Senior Finance Analyst will play a key role in producing, analyzing and consolidating global business headlines from key financial reports. They will be responsible for maintaining, delivering, and improving analytical processes that supports senior management in providing clear insights to drive the future long-term performance of the business.
The role consolidates global results, analyzes financial data including drafting resulting commentaries, build reports, manages the structural business hierarchies, in collaboration with Finance and business teams in multiple countries.

Some of your key responsibilities will include:

• Supporting the Head of FP&A in delivering global month end, forecast, and budget reporting
• Complete enhancing analysis such as producing:
• Customer Analysis – profitability, cross selling, single view, product offerings, product profitability
• Competitor Analysis – CPU differentiation, SWOT analysis, opportunities for competitive advantage
• Product – holistic view of products, profitability analysis and new product development
• Focus on profitable and identify future innovative potential growth areas
• Consolidate and review global commentary from multiple sources for month end, forecast and budget. Commentaries includes month end financial drivers, CAPEX, FTE and other adhoc items.
• Develop global business headlines summarizing the drivers for month end, forecasts and budget
• Maintain reports, working with each of the regions to make sure we are receiving what is needed to consolidate, adjusting/adapting to adhoc items that come up throughout the process
• Completes enhancing analysis to drive growth and operational efficiencies. including; month end processing, management review of budget vs. actual results as well as prior year comparisons and trend analysis.
• Support the development of board decks which will include creating PowerPoint slides and chart of accounts by reviewing and approving all cost centers and accounts.
• Supports the delivery of process simplification and standardization as well as ensuring appropriate and optimally efficient policies, procedures and controls are maintained and regularly reviewed, making improvements as necessary
• As a key financial liaison, the BU Finance Analyst will collaborate with the various departments across the business unit.
• Identify opportunities for continual process improvements