Senior Financial Analyst

About Four Seasons:

Four Seasons is powered by our people. We are a collective of individuals who crave to become better, to push ourselves to new heights and to treat each other as we wish to be treated in return. Our team members around the world create amazing experiences for our guests, residents, and partners through a commitment to luxury with genuine heart. We know that the best way to enable our people to deliver these exceptional guest experiences is through a world-class employee experience and company culture.         
At Four Seasons, we believe in recognizing a familiar face, welcoming a new one and treating everyone we meet the way we would want to be treated ourselves. Whether you work with us, stay with us, live with us or discover with us, we believe our purpose is to create impressions that will stay with you for a lifetime. It comes from our belief that life is richer when we truly connect to the people and the world around us.

About the location:

Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts is a global, luxury hotel management company. We manage over 120 hotels and resorts and 50 private residences in 47 countries around the world and growing. Central to Four Seasons employee experience and social impact programming is the company’s commitment to supporting cancer research, and the advancement of diversity, inclusion, equality and belonging at Four Seasons corporate offices and properties worldwide. At Four Seasons, we are powered by people and our culture enables everything we do.

Senior Financial Analyst

The FP&A Senior Analyst will play a critical role in supporting the FP&A team by driving financial planning, reporting, and analysis. This role will contribute to the budgeting and forecasting processes, long-range planning, and financial insights to support strategic decision-making. The analyst will collaborate with key stakeholders across Finance, Residential, IT, and Operations to ensure accuracy, transparency, and efficiency in financial processes.

The ideal candidate is analytical, detail-oriented, and possesses strong business acumen with a proactive approach to problem-solving. This role will also support process improvements and standardization to enhance the financial planning function.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Financial Analysis and Planning

• Conduct data-driven financial analysis across multiple sources, ensuring data accuracy and integrity. Leverage financial tools and Power BI to enhance reporting and automate manual processes. Prepare monthly, quarterly, and annual variance reports and analysis for Revenues and collaborate with various departments to articulate the drivers behind the trends. 
• Assist in coordinating the annual budget, monthly forecasts, and long-range planning cycles Prepare regular financial schedules to support management reporting Work with teams to connect financial KPIs to operating KPIs for Enterprise Reporting.
• Support Management with the development of Corporate P & L reporting and financial metrics for decision-making.
• Support revenue and cost planning efforts, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
• Provide financial insights that support revenue optimization efforts.

Support for Residential License Fee Forecasting, Analysis

• Ensure adoption and integration of new cloud based financial tools and fee models, deal summary documents, adherence checklists, and training frameworks.
• Work collaboratively with Residential and other Finance stakeholders to help coordinate and then iterate upon Residential License Fee budgets, forecasts and long-range plans, and ensure accuracy in audit packages and backlog reports.
• Prepare summaries of the various Residential meetings that take place and articulate agreed-upon changes.
• Prepare and analyze variance reports (Actual vs. Budget vs. Forecast), identifying trends, risks, and opportunities.

Process Improvement & Governance    

• Work on projects to envision automation of Excel based tools.
• Collaborate with Finance teams to introduce new analytics tools and improve existing reporting capabilities.
• Assist business partners with financial governance process related to strategic initiatives
• Develop and maintain standardized dashboards and reporting templates for real-time decision support.

Ad-hoc Analysis and Special Projects

• Support strategic initiatives by conducting financial modelling, scenario analysis, and deep-dive reviews.
• Conduct ad-hoc financial analysis, trend & sensitivity analysis and financial modeling as required to support business decision making and help answer spontaneous management questions.
• Assist Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis in developing and maintaining analytical tools.
• Assist on special projects and other assignments as required.

What You Bring:

• Minimum 3-4 years’ experience in Financial Analysis or relevant work experience.
• Any professional courses related to financial modeling will be a bonus.
• Undergraduate Degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Math or Engineering.
• MBA or CPA is preferred, not required.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint. Experience with automation and advanced analytics is a plus.
• Working knowledge of ERP systems – Dynamic 365, EPM – One Stream or similar systems will be a benefit.
• Strong financial modelling skills.
• Process improvement mindset, eager to streamline workflows and improve financial data accuracy.
• Working knowledge of Revenue Recognition under IFRS or generally accepted accounting principles is an asset but not required.
• Stakeholder management experience, collaborating across departments to support strategic initiatives.

Key Skills/ Who You Are:

• Strong attention to detail and high degree of accuracy.
• Self-starter and ability to work independently with little supervision both in the office and hybrid work from home.
• Strong interpersonal and relationship-building skills to work with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work under pressure and meet various deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Must be a team player willing to work with all levels of management and staff.
• Must show initiative and a willing attitude to become involved in a wide array of projects.
• Ability to multi-task and balance a challenging and often shifting workload.
• Excellent analytical, organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to quickly research and learn skills to become competent and add value in areas of limited familiarity.
• Must be prideful of one’s own work quality while also balancing competing priorities.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and capable of managing multiple deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Effective communication skills verbally, in writing, both in person and through Teams virtual meetings and interactions.

This role will be a Hybrid working model, which will require 3 days per week in the Four Seasons Corporate Office located at 1165 Leslie Street, Toronto, Ontario #LI-Hybrid

Four Seasons is committed to providing employment accommodation in accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code and the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. If contacted for an employment opportunity, please advise Human Resources if you require accommodation.