We’re looking for a Senior Financial Analyst, FP&A to help us support the next exciting phase in Hootsuite’s growth. As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will gain a deep understanding of our business and be a key player in setting, monitoring and analyzing our financial plans and forecasts. You’ll partner with key stakeholders to provide insights into financial and operating trends, and financial support of business cases and decisions, and play a key role in the annual budgeting process. While working remotely or in a hybrid work arrangement, a blend of virtual (in accordance with Hootsuite’s distributed workforce strategy), and in Hootsuite’s Vancouver or Toronto office, you will report to the Senior Director, FP&A.
WHAT YOU’LL DO:
Budgeting and Forecasting & Business Partnering
- Leveraging deep systems and tool knowledge, develop tools and templates necessary to support and effectively consolidate departmental budgets and forecasts. Develop and implement related processes to build scalable solutions to support the next wave of Hootsuite’s growth
- Serve as a key business partner to assigned departments working directly with stakeholders to provide assistance with budgeting and reporting. Present findings and business recommendations in a simple way for stakeholders to understand their Operating expense spend
- Monitor actual results vs. budget and meet regularly with budget holders to review variances and changes to forecasts.
Management Reporting and Financial Planning System support
- Support recurring consolidated management, and board reporting, with clear narratives on variances and overall performance
- Develop/ maintain processes to report on Headcount / hiring plans against budget in a timely manner and ensure deviation from plan/ budget impact is communicated
- Support continuous improvement of Adaptive, Financial planning system and ensure ongoing audits/ control requirements are met
Decision Support / Finance and Business Advisory
- Serve as a key business partner working directly with stakeholders to provide financial analysis and support in regards to strategic planning, scenario modeling and development of business cases.
- Provide analysis, commentary and insights for inclusion in corporate performance reporting to executives, Board and investors.
- Drive continuous improvement in operational efficiency by identifying financial and operational control gaps and making recommendations to mitigate risks and improve internal systems and processes
- Perform other related duties as assigned
WHAT YOU’LL NEED:
- Significant relevant experience in an FP&A business partnership capacity or similar role
- Professional accounting designation CPA, CFA, CBV or an MBA preferred
- Financial modeling and analyzing data and performance, particularly strong knowledge of Google Sheets and Netsuite.
- A strong foundation in Adaptive Insights, including knowledge of understanding/ writing formulas, and creating reports/dashboards preferred
- Problem Solving: uses an organized and logical approach to find solutions to complex problems. Looks beyond the obvious to understand the root cause of problems
- Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs
- Open Communication: clearly conveys thoughts, both written and verbally, listening attentively and asking questions for clarification and understanding
- Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects
- Customer Focus: demonstrates a desire to proactively help and serve internal/external customers meet their needs
WHO YOU ARE:
- Solution seeker: You’re focused on tackling new challenges, solving problems, and moving the business forward—and you don’t wait to be asked.
- Lifelong learner: You have a growth mindset – you’re here to learn, experiment, seek, apply, and provide feedback, share what works with your team, and move on from what doesn’t.
- Resilient adapter: In the face of change and challenges, you bring a thoughtful, calm approach, and a focus on finding the new opportunity.
- Intentional collaborator: You build positive working relationships across the business, bringing people together to foster new opportunities and to facilitate the efficient flow of information.
- Critical challenger: You have the trust in your team to ask difficult questions in order to get to the best end result.
- Active communicator: You listen actively and communicate ideas and information clearly, inclusively, and proactively.
- Integrated thinker: You look beyond your role and responsibilities to understand how your team’s work drives broader organizational goals.
- Accountable owner: You take pride in the work you’re responsible for with a mindset of ultimate accountability and reliability for the outcomes.
- Bar-raiser: You step up to help your team grow and succeed, even when that means going beyond what might be expected.
Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
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Canada Pay Range For This Role
$78,400—$109,800 CAD
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What We Do
Hootsuite has been on the pulse of how people use social media for over a decade. As the global leader and world’s first social media management platform, we put social to work in every corner of every organization, from the smallest business to the largest enterprise. We are committed to helping customers harness the power of social media to ignite their brand and business.
How? Over time, we’ve adapted our software to help businesses reach their customers more efficiently across multiple platforms, improve their customer service and gain deeper analytics and consumer insights. Through our deep expertise in social media management, social insights, employee advocacy, and social customer care, we empower organizations to strategically grow their brands, businesses, and customer relationships – while guiding them through the wild world of social media.
Put simply, we help our customers with:
Social media marketing: Create, schedule, publish, and manage content and ad campaigns across social networks from a single dashboard. We help maximize the impact of social marketing by providing real-time insights, so customers can focus on other areas of their business.
Social care: By combining the power of conversational AI with the human touch of our customers’ team(s), our customer messaging platform delivers exceptional customer experiences at scale.
Social customer care: We help our customers meet their customers where they are at. Using Hootsuite, businesses can view and manage all of their customer conversations in one dashboard, providing service that’s seamless and personal.
Why Work With Us
As the creators of social media management, Hootsuite has been on the pulse of this dynamic and ever-changing space since our inception. Working at Hootsuite means being at the forefront of social innovation, tapping into courageous creativity to guide customers through the wild world of social, and helping to define what it means to ‘be social.’
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