Business Analyst

**Who We Are**

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is a registered charity and has been operating for 150 years. The Society provides care, comfort and compassion to animals in need in communities across Ontario; we value all animals and advocate to treat them with respect and kindness. We strive to keep pets and families together and do so through a variety of community support services.

**Opportunity**

The **Business Analyst** (financial) role will focus on financial reporting, analysis, and risk identification. This role will use analytical fact finding to support organizational budgeting and forecasting and identify financial risks and opportunities for the organization. The Business Analyst recognizes the key performance indicators (KPI’s) necessary to make financially sound business decisions and presents them to the CFO for further examination.

**Status**: Full Time Permanent

**Location**:Based out of our Provincial Office in Stouffville with partial remote opportunity available.

**A Typical Day**

**Business Analysis**
- Identify and research variances to forecast, budget and prior
- year expenses and proactively identify opportunities for improvement.
- Provide FP&A support to Finance and management in areas of productivity, reporting and metrics in a timely manner.
- Seeks to understand data structures across the organization and work with users to interpret reports.
- Extraction and manipulation of data pulled from various databases to produce meaningful reports.
- Understand and explain internal and external drivers impacting performance and trends.
- Collaborate with business partners in Finance and Operations to execute against plans.
- Partner with stakeholders to analyze and bring forward new business requests.
- Participate in all initiatives or process improvements within finance and IT departments.

**Project Work**
- Design, operate and maintain a KPI Dashboard for operations and Finance in order to support operational improvements, provide insight to improving financial efficiencies and drive growth.
- Prepare and maintain financial models to support both short and long-term strategic plans with support of CFO.
- Special Projects and ad hoc reporting as assigned by CFO and Controller.

**Why You Should Join Our Team?**
- Be part of an energetic team environment with others who share your passion for animal wellbeing
- Competitive compensation package including medical, dental and vision benefits.
- Employee Family Assistance Program.
- Paid sick time.
- Generous vacation policy.
- Generous discount on virtual pet care services.
- Discount on pet supplies and toys.
- Discount on Ontario SPCA Paws & Give merchandise.

**Do You Have What it Takes?**
- 3-5 years of relevant experience
- Medium to large scale project experience with proven success in analysis, reporting and effective KPI development.
- Advanced Excel knowledge including charts, graphs, Pivot Tables and V-lookups.
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Microsoft Dynamic Navision
- Intermediate to advanced knowledge of Blackbaud, Raiser’s Edge and/or a similar software.
- Proficiency in Business Intelligence (BI) would be an asset.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) skills with ability to explain financial systems and processes to a non-financial audience.
- Strong ability to build and foster relationships at all levels.
- Sound judgement and decision-making ability with a solution driven mentality.
- Excellent analytical, problem recognition and problem-solving skills.

**We Can’t Wait to Meet You**

Please forward your resume and cover letter to:
AnneMarie Dupuis

HR Business Partner

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest in the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society, however; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society will provide accommodation during all stages of the recruitment process. Should you require any accommodation, please advise us if you are contacted for an interview and we will work with you to meet your accessibility needs. For any questions, suggestions or required documents regarding accessibility in a different format, please contact us at 888-668-7722

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

Pay: $75,000.00-$85,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Casual dress
- Dental care
- Disability insurance
- Discounted or free food
- Employee assistance program
- Extended health care
- Flexible schedule
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Paid time off
- Store discount
- Vision care
- Work from home

Flexible Language Requirement:

- French not required

Schedule:

- Day shift
- Monday to Friday

Application question(s):

- This role is graded to have a salary between $75k-$85k dependent on skills and experience. Does this meet your expectation?
- There will be onsite work required on a regular basis. Do you have the ability to work onsite?

**Education**:

- Bachelor's Degree (preferred)

**Experience**:

- relevant: 3 years (required)