Senior Financial Analyst

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Are you actively looking for a new opportunity? Or just checking the market? Well… you might just be in the right place!

We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst to join our Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) team. You will create and utilize data-driven analysis that holds the senior leaders of the business accountable to delivering budget targets. This candidate possesses effective communication skills, is self‑motivated, is highly organized to meet deadlines, can extract insights from large and multiple data sets, can develop and maintain complex excel models and is passionate about growing the P&L.

What you’ll be doing:

• Establishing solid business partnerships with leaders across the business

• Preparing presentations for the Senior Management team

• Preparing, improving and streamlining the budgeting, forecasting and long term planning process

• Performing deep analysis and scorecard against budget/forecast monthly and quarterly

• Responsible for the delivery of accurate and timely month-end variance and management reporting

• Providing analytical support and financial guidance to help with various business decisions. This includes developing new analyses and improving reports and metrics to better support senior leadership’s decision‑making process

And a little bit of…

• Working on ad hoc projects as assigned; such as assessment of new business activities or change of process

• Assisting with special requests from the executive team

• Contributing as part of the wider team to achieve organizational objectives even if this means doing things that aren’t strictly within the scope of your role.

What you need to bring:

We're looking for a candidate who has experience with the following:

• 3-5 years in progressive financial analysis experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Business, Accounting or Finance

• Expert knowledge in Excel

• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills

• Experience with financial modeling

• Proven track record in business partner or corporate FP&A role

• Highly detail oriented and organized

• Strong and effective verbal and written communication to interact with all levels of management

• Demonstrated success working in a deadline‑driven and multi‑task, fast‑paced environment

• Ability to multitask and work quickly while being able to adapt to a rapidly evolving environment

Even better if you have, but not necessary:

• Experience with Pigment planning tool

• Knowledge/experience working in a customer support organization

Be a change maker

You’ll enjoy:

• A flexible work environment that empowers you to do your best work

• A culture that celebrates performance

• The chance to make an impact in a team that’s big enough for career growth, but lean enough to make your voice heard

• Career-defining opportunities

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies

• Equity options, because this is your company too

• Contributions to your pension plan. Your future matters

• Training opportunities to grow your skills and career

• Health and wellness credit so you feel your best

• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community

• Interest groups, employee led networks, social committees to sponsored sports teams

• Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook

• Enhanced parental leave to support growing families

• Etc…

Fuel your growth. Find your people.

At Lightspeed, your growth is our priority. We invest in you with continuous learning opportunities, global mobility and benefits designed to support you—all within a driven, diverse and inclusive team that’s passionate about empowering our communities

Please note that we ask applicants to disclose any criminal convictions, and we conduct criminal record checks as part of our hiring process for this role.

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