Senior Financial Analyst (16-month contract)

DP World · Burnaby

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Role Purpose

The Senior Financial Analyst supports financial planning, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for Canadian operations, with a focus on consolidated management reporting, capital expenditures, and Shared Services. This hands-on role analyzes complex financial data, performs consolidations and reconciliations, and delivers accurate, decision-ready reporting. The role also supports Finance modernization through expanded Power BI reporting and the implementation of a new budgeting and forecasting platform.

Key Responsibilities

Financial Reporting, Consolidation & Ad Hoc Analysis

• Prepare and present monthly consolidated financial and operational reporting, including business performance, KPIs, budget-to-actual results, forecasts, and variance analysis for executive and regional leadership.
• Consolidate, reconcile, and validate financial and operational data from multiple sources, delivering accurate reporting and insights to support business decisions.
• Maintain budget and forecast models, support month-end reviews, and investigate financial variances, discrepancies, and reclassification requirements.
   

Capital Expenditure Reporting

• Manage capital reporting and project data, including budget, forecast, spend, and variance analysis, while maintaining data integrity through consolidation, reconciliation, and collaboration with key stakeholders.

Shared Services Financial Planning & Analysis

• Partner with Shared Services leaders to manage budgets and forecasts, analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and provide insights, recommendations, and risk/opportunity analysis to support decision-making.
   

Reporting Automation & Planning Systems

• Support reporting and planning system enhancements, including Power BI reporting, budgeting and forecasting tools, data validation, process design, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Knowledge & Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance.
• CPA, CFA and/or MBA qualification an asset.
• Minimum of 3-4 years of post-designation experience in financial reporting and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting and variance reporting.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency is essential, including complex formulas, lookups, PivotTables, large dataset manipulation, manual consolidation, reconciliations and robust ad hoc analysis.
• Strong data management skills: able to extract, clean, organize, validate and interpret high volumes of information, resolve inconsistencies and turn complex data into accurate, accessible reporting.
• Solid financial and business acumen, including financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and variance analysis.
• Hands-on experience with Power BI required, including report/dashboard development, data transformation and validation. Knowledge of Power Query and DAX is an asset.
• Experience improving or automating financial reporting and planning processes; exposure to budgeting system implementation, Oracle EPBCS or comparable planning platforms is an asset.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results to non-finance stakeholders and build effective relationships with business leaders.
• Detail-oriented and resourceful; comfortable working independently in a high-volume, partly manual reporting environment while developing better long-term processes.
• Familiarity with port and terminal operations is valuable but not required.
• Must be fluent in English.
• Previous Canadian work experience or experience working directly with Canadian industries.
  
   

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