Financial Analyst/Sr. Financial Analyst (Future Opportunity)
About the role
With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. **Posting for Future Opportunities only
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis** Do you have a learning mindset? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment that doesn’t settle for the status quo? Would working in a highly collaborative and relationship driven company that values respect for everyone excite you? Look no further than Home Depot Canada.
We are the trusted finance partners working collaboratively to identify problems, find efficacies and drive results. As a senior financial analyst, you are the key person influencing decisions for key business leaders through financial data and insights, and serve as the main point of contact to provide findings and recommendations to our senior leadership team and CFO.
Responsible For
- Acting as the CFO for their business working directly with management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations and develop reports to drive the business
- Prepare and present complex financial analysis in a meaningful, concise and user friendly manner for senior management
- Ability to think strategically , leading semi-annual planning activities in partnership with the other finance teams and internal business stakeholders to support division’s strategic planning
- Influencing and driving business actions through value added analysis/insights to both technical and non-technical audience
- Providing thought leadership and recommendations for identifying and implementing process improvements
- Sharing and implementing best practices among the team and the finance group
- Represent functional area as an analytics & insights professional and key resource; build positive and productive working partnerships
- Oversee and/or independently perform tasks from end to end
- Execute on data requests accurately and within a timely manner
- Act as a bridge to translate business requirements to analytics and reporting needs for a given domain
- Applying your creative problem solving skills to build new and supplemental reporting methods
- Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights and identify areas of business opportunities
- Supports data science projects by conducting effective analysis to solve business problems
- Consults with Data Scientist or Sr. Data Scientist on appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytical methodologies
- Apply understanding of respective business strategies to produce relevant and substantial data analysis to support business goals and objectives
- Continually develop skills and expertise in data analytics concepts and methodologies
What you will need to be successful in this role:
- For internals, must fulfill minimum time-in-position (1 year) and performance management code requirements (M+)
- 3 to 7 years of Financial Analyst/Financial business partner/Business Insights experience
- A Bachelors’ or a Masters’ degree in Finance, Business, a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc.) or equivalent work experience
- Learning mindset and willingness to mentor new analysts and senior analysts
- Excellent oral and written communication
- A Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and financial modeling
- Ability to work in a dynamic, complex, fast-paced environment, to adapt quickly and to manage changing priorities and deadlines
- Self-motivated and pro-active, with respect to both managing workload and professional development
- A Flexible attitude and approach to business solutions.
- Comfortable presenting in front of a small and large audience
- Working knowledge of MS Office
- Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
- Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
- Experience utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
- Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python) considered an asset
About Home Depot Canada
The Home Depot Canada is the Canadian arm of the world’s largest home improvement retailer. The company has 182 stores in 10 Canadian provinces, employing more than 30,000 associates from coast-to-coast.
Our company is the largest home improvement retailer in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Our global expansion demonstrates how The Home Depot combines its vast knowledge of the home improvement industry with the needs, shopping trends and customs of each unique geography to best serve customers.
Based out of our dynamic Toronto-based Store Support Centre, we have many opportunities available for corporate professionals seeking a big challenge with great rewards. Our high-performing team consists of marketing and communication specialists, the industry’s best product merchants, and experts in financial and inventory planning. We also have exciting opportunities within our Supply Chain team including positions at our Distribution Centres.
The Home Depot’s values are the fabric of the company's unique culture and are central to our success. In fact, they are our competitive advantage in the marketplace. Associate pride and our "orange blooded" entrepreneurial spirit are distinctive hall marks of our company.
With our unprecedented growth, there's no better time to build your career at The Home Depot Canada.
Financial Analyst/Sr. Financial Analyst (Future Opportunity)
About the role
With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger. **Posting for Future Opportunities only
Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis** Do you have a learning mindset? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment that doesn’t settle for the status quo? Would working in a highly collaborative and relationship driven company that values respect for everyone excite you? Look no further than Home Depot Canada.
We are the trusted finance partners working collaboratively to identify problems, find efficacies and drive results. As a senior financial analyst, you are the key person influencing decisions for key business leaders through financial data and insights, and serve as the main point of contact to provide findings and recommendations to our senior leadership team and CFO.
Responsible For
- Acting as the CFO for their business working directly with management and other internal stakeholders to provide financial recommendations and develop reports to drive the business
- Prepare and present complex financial analysis in a meaningful, concise and user friendly manner for senior management
- Ability to think strategically , leading semi-annual planning activities in partnership with the other finance teams and internal business stakeholders to support division’s strategic planning
- Influencing and driving business actions through value added analysis/insights to both technical and non-technical audience
- Providing thought leadership and recommendations for identifying and implementing process improvements
- Sharing and implementing best practices among the team and the finance group
- Represent functional area as an analytics & insights professional and key resource; build positive and productive working partnerships
- Oversee and/or independently perform tasks from end to end
- Execute on data requests accurately and within a timely manner
- Act as a bridge to translate business requirements to analytics and reporting needs for a given domain
- Applying your creative problem solving skills to build new and supplemental reporting methods
- Design and develop algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights and identify areas of business opportunities
- Supports data science projects by conducting effective analysis to solve business problems
- Consults with Data Scientist or Sr. Data Scientist on appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytical methodologies
- Apply understanding of respective business strategies to produce relevant and substantial data analysis to support business goals and objectives
- Continually develop skills and expertise in data analytics concepts and methodologies
What you will need to be successful in this role:
- For internals, must fulfill minimum time-in-position (1 year) and performance management code requirements (M+)
- 3 to 7 years of Financial Analyst/Financial business partner/Business Insights experience
- A Bachelors’ or a Masters’ degree in Finance, Business, a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc.) or equivalent work experience
- Learning mindset and willingness to mentor new analysts and senior analysts
- Excellent oral and written communication
- A Demonstrated expertise in business analysis and financial modeling
- Ability to work in a dynamic, complex, fast-paced environment, to adapt quickly and to manage changing priorities and deadlines
- Self-motivated and pro-active, with respect to both managing workload and professional development
- A Flexible attitude and approach to business solutions.
- Comfortable presenting in front of a small and large audience
- Working knowledge of MS Office
- Experience running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
- Experience with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
- Experience utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
- Experience in a modern scripting language (preferably Python) considered an asset
About Home Depot Canada
The Home Depot Canada is the Canadian arm of the world’s largest home improvement retailer. The company has 182 stores in 10 Canadian provinces, employing more than 30,000 associates from coast-to-coast.
Our company is the largest home improvement retailer in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. Our global expansion demonstrates how The Home Depot combines its vast knowledge of the home improvement industry with the needs, shopping trends and customs of each unique geography to best serve customers.
Based out of our dynamic Toronto-based Store Support Centre, we have many opportunities available for corporate professionals seeking a big challenge with great rewards. Our high-performing team consists of marketing and communication specialists, the industry’s best product merchants, and experts in financial and inventory planning. We also have exciting opportunities within our Supply Chain team including positions at our Distribution Centres.
The Home Depot’s values are the fabric of the company's unique culture and are central to our success. In fact, they are our competitive advantage in the marketplace. Associate pride and our "orange blooded" entrepreneurial spirit are distinctive hall marks of our company.
With our unprecedented growth, there's no better time to build your career at The Home Depot Canada.