Senior Manager - Financial Planning and Analysis

Role: Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Status: Full-Time, Regular
Department: Finance
Location: Markham

Summary

As Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A), you will play a key leadership role within the Finance organization, providing financial leadership, strategic insight and decision support across Enercare's functional support organizations, including Operations, Product and Marketing, Customer Experience, Human Resources, Legal, IT, Finance and other corporate functions.

You will lead a team of FP&A professionals and act as a trusted strategic finance partner to senior business and Finance leaders. You will oversee budgeting, forecasting, multi-year planning, management reporting and financial analysis, ensuring business performance is clearly understood and emerging risks and opportunities are identified early.

Beyond reporting financial results, you will challenge business assumptions, connect operational performance to financial outcomes, and translate complex information into clear insights and recommendations. You will also develop FP&A talent and continuously improve the quality, efficiency and effectiveness of financial planning and analysis.

Responsibilities

Strategic Planning and Business Partnering

• Lead FP&A partnership across Operations, Product and Marketing, Customer Experience, Human Resources, Legal, IT, Finance and other supported corporate functions.
• Act as a strategic financial advisor to senior leaders, providing insight, constructive challenge and recommendations to support key business decisions.
• Lead the development of annual operating plans and multi-year strategic financial outlooks across supported functions.
• Challenge business assumptions and ensure financial plans appropriately reflect underlying business drivers, risks, opportunities and strategic priorities.
• Lead financial evaluation of strategic initiatives, investments, productivity programs and organizational changes, including business cases, ROI, NPV, IRR, payback and sensitivity analysis.
• Partner across Finance and the organization to align financial objectives, operating plans and strategic priorities.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Financial Management

• Lead and oversee annual budgeting and monthly forecasting processes across supported areas.
• Review and challenge forecasts, assumptions and financial submissions to ensure accuracy, completeness and appropriate business rationale.
• Consolidate financial results and forecasts into a clear overall view of performance, identifying key drivers, risks and opportunities and recommending appropriate management actions.
• Analyze performance against budget, forecast, prior year and strategic plan, ensuring significant variances and underlying drivers are clearly understood.
• Oversee month-end financial review activities, including accruals, variance analysis and management reporting.
• Lead workforce planning, headcount forecasting, compensation planning and organizational cost management for supported areas.

Management Reporting and Executive Presentations

• Lead the development and review of monthly, quarterly and annual management reporting for senior Finance, business and executive leadership.
• Translate detailed financial and operational analysis into a clear overall story explaining performance, outlook, risks, opportunities and recommended actions.
• Develop and review concise, executive-ready presentations, ensuring the FP&A team's analysis is accurate, insightful and decision-oriented.
• Support Board and other executive-level reporting requirements as required.
• Oversee the development of KPIs and dashboards that provide meaningful visibility into financial and operational performance.
• Continuously improve management reporting to focus leadership attention on the metrics and business drivers that matter most.

Financial Analysis and Strategic Decision Support

• Lead complex financial modelling and analysis supporting strategic, operational and investment decisions.
• Evaluate the financial implications of business initiatives, organizational changes, productivity opportunities and investment decisions.
• Lead scenario and sensitivity analysis to assess alternative business outcomes and support decision-making.
• Identify financial and operational trends, underlying business drivers and opportunities to improve performance.

Team Leadership and Development

• Lead, coach and develop a high-performing FP&A team, establishing clear objectives, priorities and expectations.
• Provide oversight and review of analysis, forecasts, models and presentations produced by the team, maintaining accountability for quality and timeliness.
• Develop team capabilities in financial modelling, forecasting, business partnering, strategic analysis and executive communication.

Process Improvement, Systems and FP&A Excellence

• Lead continuous improvement of budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analytical processes.
• Identify opportunities to simplify, standardize and automate recurring Finance activities and establish consistent FP&A methodologies and reporting standards.
• Leverage Excel, Power BI, ERP and financial planning systems to improve financial visibility, efficiency and decision support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, Economics or a related field.
• Professional designation such as CPA or CFA strongly preferred; MBA or MFin considered an asset.
• Minimum 7–9 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, financial management, business partnering or related Finance roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading and developing Finance professionals.
• Proven experience leading annual budgets, forecasts and multi-year strategic planning processes.
• Strong understanding of financial statements and the relationship between operational drivers and financial performance.
• Exceptional financial modelling, analytical and problem-solving capabilities.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel and financial planning tools; experience with Power BI, ERP and financial planning systems considered an asset.
• Demonstrated experience developing and delivering executive-level financial presentations and recommendations.
• Strong commercial acumen and the ability to translate complex financial and operational information into clear recommendations.
• Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to influence and constructively challenge senior stakeholders.
• Experience within a large, complex organization is considered an asset.
• Big 4 accounting, transaction/advisory, consulting or similarly rigorous analytical experience considered an asset.
• Strong judgment, ownership and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.