About the role
YouGovabout 14 hours ago
Toronto, Ontario
Mid Level
full_time
About the role
Here’s a Summary Of The Role As a Finance Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the Finance Business Partner for the Americas. This role is focused on assisting with financial planning, reporting, and analysis, while developing your skills and understanding of how finance supports strategic business decisions.
You will collaborate with colleagues across the finance team and business functions to ensure accurate reporting and valuable insights.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Support monthly reporting processes, including preparing variance analysis and commentary.
- Perform data analysis to identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Assist in the preparation of budgets, forecasts and business cases.
- Build and maintain advanced Excel models for reporting, forecasting and scenario planning
- Work with business teams to provide clear, accurate and timely financial information.
- Support commission and bonus calculations under guidance from the Finance Business Partner.
- Contribute to process improvements in and automation opportunities in reporting and analysis.
- Support ad hoc reporting and financial requests from business leaders
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Professional qualification (or part-qualified) in ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent is desirable.
- Relevant experience in finance, analysis, accounting or business partnering in a similar role
- Advanced Excel skills are essential (pivot tables, lookups, macros, data modelling etc).
- Strong ability to analyse large volumes of financial data from ERP/finance systems
- Exposure to Power BI, SAP, NetSuite, OneStream, or similar tools is an advantage.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present financial insights clearly.
- Proactive, organized, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
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
YouGovabout 14 hours ago
Toronto, Ontario
Mid Level
full_time
About the role
Here’s a Summary Of The Role As a Finance Analyst, you will play a key role in supporting the Finance Business Partner for the Americas. This role is focused on assisting with financial planning, reporting, and analysis, while developing your skills and understanding of how finance supports strategic business decisions.
You will collaborate with colleagues across the finance team and business functions to ensure accurate reporting and valuable insights.
Here’s a breakdown of what you’ll do (not all of it, just the important stuff):
- Support monthly reporting processes, including preparing variance analysis and commentary.
- Perform data analysis to identify trends, variances, risks, and opportunities.
- Assist in the preparation of budgets, forecasts and business cases.
- Build and maintain advanced Excel models for reporting, forecasting and scenario planning
- Work with business teams to provide clear, accurate and timely financial information.
- Support commission and bonus calculations under guidance from the Finance Business Partner.
- Contribute to process improvements in and automation opportunities in reporting and analysis.
- Support ad hoc reporting and financial requests from business leaders
These are the essentials you’ll need to get an interview:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field.
- Professional qualification (or part-qualified) in ACCA, CIMA, CPA, or equivalent is desirable.
- Relevant experience in finance, analysis, accounting or business partnering in a similar role
- Advanced Excel skills are essential (pivot tables, lookups, macros, data modelling etc).
- Strong ability to analyse large volumes of financial data from ERP/finance systems
- Exposure to Power BI, SAP, NetSuite, OneStream, or similar tools is an advantage.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to present financial insights clearly.
- Proactive, organized, and eager to learn in a fast-paced environment.
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.