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WESCO Senior Analyst - Financial in Mississauga, Ontario
As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will be responsible for the preparation, coordination, and documentation of forward-looking financial and business-related projects. You will prepare financial forecasts and/or reports and provides strategic analytical expertise for assigned areas. You will identify issues and suggests courses of action and makes recommendations for improving operations.
Responsibilities:
Develop and manage profitability analysis across multiple lines of business.
Enhance and maintain standardized approaches in analyzing, evaluating, and obtaining approvals for financial support of RFP’s, bids, and proposed contracts.
Evaluate actual performance on contracts vs. proposed.
Coordinate across functions and business units to obtain information and garner input on key assumptions and variables.
Support development of unit’s annual budget, and tracks and analyzes variances throughout year.
Monitor progress toward objectives.
Identify issues and suggests courses of action, makes recommendations for improving operations, and resource allocation.
Perform additional strategic analytical functions.
Conduct detail end of period review of financials to ensure proper reporting.
Monitor sales and margins to ensure appropriate billing margin is earned.
May provide direction and support to more junior analysts.
Qualifications:
Bachelors’ Degree - Accounting, Finance, or business related required
3 years required of financial analysis experience; including discounted cash flow
1 year required of data query extraction and analytics experience
1 year required of profit and loss and balance sheet forecasting and management experience
Strong communication and presentation skills with ability to translate complex analytical data into easily understandable format
Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite – High proficiency in Excel
Strong teamwork, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
Managing and organizing large amounts of data
Ability to prioritize and handle multiple projects and deadlines
Ability to analyze financial data and prepare financial reports, statements, and projections
Report writing utilizing Hyperion and Oracle
Short and long-term budgeting and forecasting, rolling budgets, and product-line profitability analysis is preferred
Ability to travel up to 25%
Wesco International, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Wesco”) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, religion, color, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law. US applicants only, we are an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer.
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