As a Senior Financial Analyst at Equifax Canada, you will primarily be responsible for providing proactive, insightful financial analysis to enable the business to reach its short- and long-term strategic and financial objectives. The Senior Financial Analyst will often interface with senior management to deliver financial information in a concise and meaningful manner to foster effective decision making.

The Senior Financial Analyst will also drive value-added planning, budgeting and forecasting activities, and work with various areas of the business and business unit management to prepare annual budgets, monthly forecasts and monthly reporting including summarizing the budget and preparing presentations. You will analyze business results and trends and preparing a myriad of reports and synopsis of the business results for reporting to the business and management.
 

Who is Equifax? 
At Equifax, we believe knowledge drives progress. As a global data, analytics and technology company, we play an essential role in the global economy by helping employers, employees, financial institutions and government agencies make critical decisions with greater confidence. 

We work to help create seamless and positive experiences during life’s pivotal moments: applying for jobs or a mortgage, financing an education or buying a car. Our impact is real and to accomplish our goals we focus on nurturing our people for career advancement and their learning and development, supporting our next generation of leaders, maintaining an inclusive and diverse work environment, and regularly engaging and recognizing our employees. Regardless of location or role, the individual and collective work of our employees makes a difference and we are looking for talented team players to join us as we help people live their financial best.

The Perks of being an Equifax Employee?

• We offer excellent compensation packages with market competitive pay, comprehensive healthcare packages, schedule flexibility, work from home opportunities, paid time off, and organizational growth potential.

• Grow at your own pace through online courses at Learning @ Equifax.

What you'll do:

• Prepare, develop, consolidate and manage the annual budget, monthly forecast and reporting including a 3-5 year plan identifying opportunities to enhance financial outlooks, and other financial analysis tasks and projects.

• Analysis and reporting on several revenue streams, including daily product activity tracking, preparation and timely completion of monthly forecasts and month end results reporting/analysis

• Analysis of month end revenue results, including analyzing customer activity and consulting with Sales leaders, and preparing insightful commentary on monthly results. Preparation of various monthly reports and executive dashboard schedules

• Develop business cases along with the business case sponsor and various business areas to assess investment recommendations and NPV analysis

• Work collaboratively with the other FP&A team members and accounting teams to ensure financial results are in conformity with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) and revenue recognition policies of the company 

• Work with the various areas of the sales team, business, managers and business unit management on monthly financial forecasts reflecting revenue, expenses, headcount, and other metrics

• Continuously improve the financial processes to gain efficiencies and identify areas of productivity through automation and utilization of BI tools

Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree from accredited University with a focus on Finance, Economics, Business, Accounting, or other quantitative discipline is essential

• 3 to 5+ years of relevant experience in financial analysis and reporting 

• Proficient with financial concepts and financial reporting tools such as Hyperion and/or OOBI (Business Intelligence Objects) with an emphasis on Microsoft Excel and Powerpoint

• Experience in BI tools such as Tableau, Power BI, etc preferred

Extra Points for the following:

• Financial designation (e.g. CA, CMA, CGA) or MBA or master’s level degree preferred

Success Attributes of an Equifax employee; does this describe you?

• Accountability

• Curiosity

• Collaboration

• Think and act differently

• Trust

• Ownership

• Problem solving

• Strong Communication skills

• Team player

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to work, don’t delay, apply today - we’re looking for you!