Telesat

Senior Financial Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis

Telesat

full-time

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Origin:  • 🇨🇦 Canada

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Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Assist with monthly and quarterly company-wide analysis of operational results, including identification of drivers behind any changes in company KPIs and profitability analyses, and associated variance analyses
  • Maintain a quarterly Databook as a single reference source for all key financial analyses ahead of quarterly earnings calls
  • Support preparation for quarterly Operations Review meetings
  • Assist with preparation of profitability/margin/segmental analyses and track/analyze company performance against KPIs
  • Perform subsidiary analytical reviews and assist with maintenance of the Telesat Lightspeed, GEO and consolidated Long-Term plans and run sensitivities as needed
  • Prepare quarterly update to the Lenders’ Base Case for Lightspeed and support informational requirements for Government of Canada/Quebec progress reports
  • Assist with annual Budget process, interim planning or rolling 18-month forecasts in Adaptive
  • Prepare monthly cost centre actual vs budget/forecast reports and expense analysis, including identification of drivers for variances with possible mitigation initiatives
  • Collect and document SOX documentation support for budget and planning cycles and document new processes
  • Extract data from WorkDay accounting system of actuals and update forecasts and long-term plans with historic results
  • Support Director, Financial Planning and Systems and Senior Director, FP&A with ad hoc projects and initiatives as required

Requirements

  • Undergraduate university degree with a major in Finance
  • 3+ years in a planning and analysis role, an advantage
  • Advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills
  • Demonstrated experience in financial modelling
  • Demonstrated ability to perform comprehensive analytical reviews
  • Proactive nature / natural self-starter
  • Financial accounting experience including ability to drill-down within an accounting system to perform detailed analysis, an advantage
  • Experience of using WorkDay, Adaptive Insights and Workday a plus
  • The ability to obtain a Government of Canada Reliability clearance is required for this position