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Job Description:
Description/Purpose:
Reporting to the Director, Finance the Senior Financial Analyst plays a key role in supporting financial business planning, performance measurement, and accounting processes within the Secure Communications FP&A team, including accruals, budgets, forecasts, variance analysis, and other management reporting. The successful candidate will interact with many other financial and business teams within BlackBerry giving them exposure to a wide breadth of business functions.
Responsibilities:
- Coordinate inputs to quarterly budgeting and regular forecasting processes
- Address pre-budget and ongoing planning system requirements, including set-up and data extracts
- Prepare documentation (Excel summary tables, PowerPoint slides, etc.) for budget review presentations
- Maintain an aligned cost centre hierarchy
- Maintain the FP&A planning timeline template
- Support headcount reconciliation/alignment process from a financial systems and management reporting standpoint
- Coordinate inputs to and distribution of performance measurement reports such as KPIs, scorecard metrics, quarterly business review, etc.
- Analyze and explain variances to budget, forecast, and prior periods
- Continually assess and identify process improvements
- Support financial reporting, month end close, and other related processes as needed
- Prepare evidence to satisfy internal SOX and Audit controls
- Prepare and communicate reports for ISV reseller program
- Ownership of AOP process for your client group
- Provide ad hoc financial analysis and reporting
- All other duties as assigned
Education and Experience
- Undergraduate degree or diploma in Business or Finance
- 3-5 years of budgeting, financial analysis, and accounting experience
- CPA or enrolment in CPA program an asset
- Strong sense of accountability and ownership to meet deliverables on time as committed
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively collaborate across all levels of the organization
- Demonstrated ability to multi-task effectively and prioritize tasks to manage fluctuating timelines and workload with minimal supervision
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills with a high focus on quality and detail
- Ability to learn quickly and high level of learning agility required
- Strong Excel skills required
- Experience with PowerPoint, Adaptive, and NetSuite or equivalent financial ERP/planning systems preferred
Location
- Waterloo, Ontario – hybrid in office 3 days per week
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Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Blackberry Waterloo, Ontario, CAN Office
295 Phillip Street, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 98008
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