Financial Analyst

2 months ago

Vancouver, Canada Lush Handmade Cosmetics Full time

The **Financial Analyst - Business Support** plays an essential role in **growing talent** in our business through collaboration and sharing best practices with the FP&A team and our business partners. You know how to **be curious** about opportunities and how to **be real** with feedback and support.

Analysts play an essential role in developing, communicating and executing the company vision by understanding the business operations and developing tools, metrics and processes to provide data and information that drives discussion and action. You will ensure the information is not only accurate, relevant and actionable but also understandable to a wide audience of stakeholders.

You will be comfortable regularly interacting with all levels of staff and providing them with insightful, forward looking reporting and analysis. Lush is a true vertically integrated retailer including manufacturing, retail, distribution, digital and corporate streams. While all streams are linked, this role is primarily focused on the streams that fall under headquarters sales and administration - including but not limited to Admin, Technology (IT), Finance, Events, Internal communications, Sustainability, Charity Pot, and Ethical Buying. You will play a key role in all budgeting and reforecasting workflows for these teams.

You are a listener with a structured approach to planning but are also excited to drive discussion that leads to action. You have a passion for what you do and are ready to join a business dedicated not just to technical proficiency but to the practices of fair-trade sourcing, supporting sustainable communities and giving back to grass roots organizations making a difference through our Charity Pot Program.

Our Lush staff **live with purpose**, finding their personal value connection with the values of our business, bringing their work and life paths into one holistic journey. #mylushlife

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:

- Partner with sales and administration streams to plan and execute strategies to support corporate goals and support the North American business through an aggressive retail expansion plan and partner with stream on projects aimed at improved cost management
- Provide decision support and ROI analysis to stream owners in the evaluation of strategic initiatives and actively support the development of success metrics and KPI's through defining metrics, benchmarking, and partnering with BI.
- Conduct financial analysis, proposing and assessing effectiveness of programs. Support business by presenting findings in plain language to both financial and non-financial audiences
- Prepare and deliver monthly P&Ls to managers and stream owners as a summary of the financial period
- Partner with stream stakeholders on a regular basis to interpret financial information and data improving financial acumen and decision-making around capital and operating expenditures. This includes ongoing reviews of capital and operating expenses and updating rolling forecast assumptions
- Variance analysis of actuals to forecast to ensure expenditure is in line with expectations. Analysis includes understanding variances, providing support to business when opportunities are identified and monthly commentary.
- Be a storyteller, turning data into easily understood trends and impacts that can be actioned by the business
- Streamline and improve S&A and Capex reporting to meet the needs of various audiences
- Facilitate and prepare the annual budget and re-forecasts for S&A streams
- Facilitate and prepare the annual Capex budget and re-forecasts for relevant streams
- Proactively seek opportunities to improve accuracy, efficiency, and usability of deliverables
- Adapt financial data and prepare content as needed for the Monthly Business Report, leadership, and company-wide presentations
- Drive standardization and efficiency across all streams by developing ongoing communication, templates, and procedures to help streamline and improve processes
- Provide peer support and development opportunities to team members
- Design and develop new and ad hoc reports and dashboards as required
- Actively support Strategic Program Management
- chairing bi-weekly PM Context reviews, ensuring communication across streams, coaching projects looking for funding and facilitating steering committee sessions, tracking funding approvals and ongoing engagement with strategy sponsors.
- Actively support the PMO function as a member of PM CoP to develop best practice PM processes and drive the development of the PM Cost Management and Tracking Process.
- Partner with PMO lead to improve the overall project management execution process, to streamline and enhance the PM capability in project delivery
- Actively participate in the annual strategic planning cycle preparing content and presentations for leadership

**You bring the following QUALIFICATIONS**:
**Required**:

- Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Statistics, Business Data An

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