About the role
YouGov1 day ago
Toronto, Ontario
Mid Level
full_time
About the role
Here’s a Summary Of The Role As a Finance Business Partner, you will act as a strategic financial support to business units across the Americas portfolio, using financial data and insights to support decision-making, improve performance, and drive business growth.
Working closely with functional leaders, you will drive cross-functional collaboration, challenge the status quo and in turn ensure robust planning, reporting, and decision support that aligns the Americas with wider business goals.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Build strong relationships between the finance department and business leaders, acting as a strategic business partner to support growth efficiency, and profitability.
- Provide insightful financial analysis to support strategic and operational initiatives.
- Lead the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans for the Americas including the US Regional business as well as the US Tech business, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
- Monitor and report on expenditure and resource allocation, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Support the month-end close process, preparing variance analysis and commentary for the US Regional and US Tech businesses in the monthly reporting pack.
- Evaluate investment cases and business proposals within the Americas (e.g., technology, people initiatives, facilities projects).
- Develop and maintain financial models to support scenario planning and cost–benefit analysis.
- Partner with department leads to help them understand financial results and make informed decisions.
- Ensure that quarterly commission accruals and sales bonuses are performed with accuracy.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying process efficiencies and automation opportunities within reporting and planning.
- Ensure that financial KPIs and metrics for the Americas are well understood, tracked, and aligned with business objectives.
- Support ad hoc analysis and reporting requirements from functional leaders and senior management.
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- CPA designation, CFA charterholder or candidate, MBA with a finance concentration is preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, or business partnering roles.
- Experience working in a commercial, high growth or tech environment is an advantage.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex data for executive audiences.
- Proven ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with OneStream, NetSuite, Adaptive, Salesforce and Power BI.
Why join YouGov? Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
Data Privacy To find out how we collect and use your personal data when you apply for a role at YouGov, please read our privacy notice at https://jobs.yougov.com/privacy
About YouGov
Business Intelligence Platforms
1001-5000
YouGov is a global research data and analytics group that is powered by reality. Thanks to a unique panel comprising millions of highly engaged members across 55 countries, we deliver unsurpassed accuracy, to inform better, more impactful decisions.
When you want unsurpassed accuracy to inform more impactful decisions, you need real-time, real-world data from real people.
YouGov /Research Reality
About Yougov
We don’t just collect data, we connect data.
YouGov is an international data and analytics group. Our value chain is a virtuous circle consisting of a highly engaged online panel, innovative data collection methods, powerful analytics technology, delivery of high-margin syndicated data products, expert insights and an authoritative media presence.
Our core offering of opinion data is derived from our highly participative panel of 5 million people worldwide who provide us with live, continuous streams of data. We capture these streams of data via our variety of data collection platforms and collect them together in the YouGov Cube, our unique connected data library.
We maximise the value of all this connected data through the application of leading-edge analytics technology and strong research expertise in order to deliver to our clients an innovative and systematic research and marketing platform which can be used to plan, manage and refine all types of campaigns.
Mission: From the beginning we had one simple idea: The more people are able to participate in the decisions made by the institutions that serve them, the better those decisions will be.
We are a global online community for millions of people, and thousands of organisations, to engage in a continuous conversation about their beliefs, behaviours and brands and provide a more accurate portrait of what the world thinks.
About the role
YouGov1 day ago
Toronto, Ontario
Mid Level
full_time
About the role
Here’s a Summary Of The Role As a Finance Business Partner, you will act as a strategic financial support to business units across the Americas portfolio, using financial data and insights to support decision-making, improve performance, and drive business growth.
Working closely with functional leaders, you will drive cross-functional collaboration, challenge the status quo and in turn ensure robust planning, reporting, and decision support that aligns the Americas with wider business goals.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Build strong relationships between the finance department and business leaders, acting as a strategic business partner to support growth efficiency, and profitability.
- Provide insightful financial analysis to support strategic and operational initiatives.
- Lead the preparation of budgets, forecasts, and long-range plans for the Americas including the US Regional business as well as the US Tech business, ensuring alignment with overall business objectives.
- Monitor and report on expenditure and resource allocation, highlighting trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Support the month-end close process, preparing variance analysis and commentary for the US Regional and US Tech businesses in the monthly reporting pack.
- Evaluate investment cases and business proposals within the Americas (e.g., technology, people initiatives, facilities projects).
- Develop and maintain financial models to support scenario planning and cost–benefit analysis.
- Partner with department leads to help them understand financial results and make informed decisions.
- Ensure that quarterly commission accruals and sales bonuses are performed with accuracy.
- Drive continuous improvement by identifying process efficiencies and automation opportunities within reporting and planning.
- Ensure that financial KPIs and metrics for the Americas are well understood, tracked, and aligned with business objectives.
- Support ad hoc analysis and reporting requirements from functional leaders and senior management.
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- CPA designation, CFA charterholder or candidate, MBA with a finance concentration is preferred.
- 7+ years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, or business partnering roles.
- Experience working in a commercial, high growth or tech environment is an advantage.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to simplify complex data for executive audiences.
- Proven ability to work independently, take initiative, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience with OneStream, NetSuite, Adaptive, Salesforce and Power BI.
Why join YouGov? Join our global team to help us achieve our social mission: to make millions of people’s opinions heard for the benefit of our local, national, and international communities.
Understanding diversity of opinion requires diversity of background. Although our global panel of millions of people worldwide powers our research, our biggest asset is our people. If our research is to be truly representative of what the world thinks, we need people from all walks of life to be part of the team to bring their perspective to the work we do.
Life at YouGov We are driven by a set of shared values. We are fast, fearless, and innovative. We work diligently to get it right. We are guided by accuracy, ethics, and proven methodologies. We respect and trust each other, bringing these values into everything that we do.
We strive to provide YouGovers with best-in-class benefits to support their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. We want our employees to have a sense of belonging and uniqueness in a supportive workplace, so they can bring their full selves to work.
Equal Opportunity Employer As an Equal Opportunity Employer, qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity or expression, and sexual orientation), parental status, national origin, marital status, age, disability, genetic information, HIV status, political affiliation, socioeconomic background, veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law or in line with our responsibilities as a fair and ethic employer. All employment decisions are made based on occupational qualifications, merit, and business need.
Data Privacy To find out how we collect and use your personal data when you apply for a role at YouGov, please read our privacy notice at https://jobs.yougov.com/privacy
About YouGov
Business Intelligence Platforms
1001-5000
YouGov is a global research data and analytics group that is powered by reality. Thanks to a unique panel comprising millions of highly engaged members across 55 countries, we deliver unsurpassed accuracy, to inform better, more impactful decisions.
When you want unsurpassed accuracy to inform more impactful decisions, you need real-time, real-world data from real people.
YouGov /Research Reality
About Yougov
We don’t just collect data, we connect data.
YouGov is an international data and analytics group. Our value chain is a virtuous circle consisting of a highly engaged online panel, innovative data collection methods, powerful analytics technology, delivery of high-margin syndicated data products, expert insights and an authoritative media presence.
Our core offering of opinion data is derived from our highly participative panel of 5 million people worldwide who provide us with live, continuous streams of data. We capture these streams of data via our variety of data collection platforms and collect them together in the YouGov Cube, our unique connected data library.
We maximise the value of all this connected data through the application of leading-edge analytics technology and strong research expertise in order to deliver to our clients an innovative and systematic research and marketing platform which can be used to plan, manage and refine all types of campaigns.
Mission: From the beginning we had one simple idea: The more people are able to participate in the decisions made by the institutions that serve them, the better those decisions will be.
We are a global online community for millions of people, and thousands of organisations, to engage in a continuous conversation about their beliefs, behaviours and brands and provide a more accurate portrait of what the world thinks.