Senior Financial Analyst

The Senior Financial Analyst plays an essential role in growing talent in our business through collaboration and support within FP&A and our business partners. You know how to be curious about opportunities and how to be real with feedback and support.

Analysts play an essential role in developing and executing the company vision by supporting decision making, planning, and driving results. You will understand business operations, developing tools, metrics, and processes to provide information that drives action and improvements. You will ensure information is accurate, relevant, and actionable while being understood by a wide audience of stakeholders.

You will be comfortable regularly interacting with all levels of staff and provide them with insightful, forward looking, reporting and analysis. Lush is a true vertically integrated business including Manufacturing, Distribution, Retail, Digital, and Admin streams. While all streams are linked, this role is primarily focused on the Administration teams. You will play a key role in all budgeting and forecasting workflows for these teams.

As a growing business, Lush needs people that can adapt and evolve to the needs of the business. You are a listener with a structured approach to planning but are also excited to drive discussion that leads to action. You have a passion for what you do and are ready to join a business dedicated not just to technical proficiency but to the practices of fair-trade sourcing, supporting sustainable communities, and giving back to grass roots organizations.

Our Lush staff live with purpose, finding their personal value connection with the values of our business, bringing their work and life paths into one holistic journey. #mylushlife

Reporting to the Head of FP&A, the Sr Financial Analyst undertakes the following RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Financial business partner to the Administration teams, providing quality, relevant, and timely, financial support to the stream and the organization.
• Be a storyteller, turning data into easily understood trends and impacts that can be actioned by the business.
• Lead month-end variance analysis and operational reviews for Administration, providing insights on financial performance and key underlying drivers, changes against the plan, and upcoming opportunities and risks.
• Lead monthly financial forecasting and annual budgeting processes, including the development, maintenance, and ongoing improvement of forecasting models to ensure accurate financial plans.
• Proactively review and develop metrics and key performance indicators (KPIs) to find actionable opportunities for stakeholders and educate the business on how those metric drive financial improvements.
• Responsible for the development and improvement of centralized tools and dashboards for business users to clearly understand their performance and opportunities.
• Work with stakeholders to provide decision support, impact assessment, and return on investment (ROI) analysis on the evaluation of projects and strategic initiatives.
• Improve finance knowledge across the business by effectively communicating financial concepts that can be easily understood by all stakeholders.
• Provide peer support, guidance, and development opportunities to team members.
• Proactively seek opportunities to improve accuracy and efficiency of processes and deliverables.
• Provide support for any ad-hoc analysis projects, modelling, and presentation materials as required.

You bring the following QUALIFICATIONS:

Required:

• 3-5 years of progressive FP&A experience.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics AX (or other ERP) and/or Adaptive forecasting software considered an asset.
• Experience in dashboarding, analysis and visualizations through PowerBI.
• Strong leadership, presentation, and communication skills.
• Excellent analytical, modelling, and problem-solving skills, with an in-depth knowledge of financial statements and drivers that impact them.
• A proven, collaborative, and inclusive approach to business support.
• Extremely high proficiency and experience within Microsoft Excel.
• Proactive approach and initiative.
• Excellent time management skills and ability to work calmly under pressure to achieve deadlines.
• Self-motivated and results oriented with a focus on delivering high-quality work.
• Excitement and commitment to learn, understand, and relate to Lush’s core brand values.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's Degree in Accounting, Commerce, Business Admin, or related field.
• Experience in vertically integrated operations.
• Formal education or relevant experience in project management.
• Accounting designation preferred.
  
  

Job Type: Regular, Full Time. Hybrid position. 1-2 days on-site is required.

Job Location: 1-2 days on-site is required. The successful candidate must be located in or around Vancouver, BC.

Thriving with a diverse company culture, celebrating the uniqueness of our staff, and committed to inclusion. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer.

We thank all interested applicants; however, only qualified candidates will be contacted.

We’re 10% Employee Owned - all colleagues play a role in protecting our ethics and our independence, contributing ideas for the future and sharing in the rewards of success when the company is doing well.

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Last updated on Aug 8, 2024