Analyst

Reliance Foundry Co. Ltd. is a Surrey-based, rapidly growing marketing and distribution company of metal products. With over 90 years of experience in the cast metals industry, we now serve our Global customer base with a product line of contemporary site furnishing and castings products that now incorporate a range of electronic products and services.

Reporting directly to the Business Controller, the primary goal, and responsibility of this position is to help and support our company’s Accounting Team.

**Key Tasks and Responsibilities include**:

- Analytical work such as variance analysis, margin, category, and product analysis.
- Experience with US/Canada import & export documentation and accounting for them — including duty drawbacks, knowledge of duties, brokerage, unique invoicing for customs compliance, etc.
- Focus on accounting projects including duty drawback and US state tax (Avalara/Taxjar).
- Work with accounting and statistical data to analyse it to make it more presentable and comprehendible using various tools such as Excel, Tableau, Power BI etc.
- Generate predictive models based on ERP sourced data in Excel, PowerBI.
- Provide ERP (Netsuite) support for the company such as building reports, searches within Netsuite including coordinating tickets for upgrades and reporting feature.
- Coordinating various financial task with the technical contractors in order to meet their deadlines.
- Provide IT support including coordinating projects with I.T. consultants to ensure priorities and timelines are met.
- Communicating analysis results and making recommendations to senior management.
- Willing to learn how to work with data tables to process them into meaningful reports from our ERP system.
- Provide support to the Business Controller and perform other duties as assigned.

**Success Factors**:

- You have excellent communication skills and can articulate concepts and provide insight from analysis, forecasting trends, KPIs, their impact and potential opportunity.
- Your attention to detail will be a critical factor for success in this role.
- You are a self-motivated self-starter who can also manage tight timelines and are always looking for ways to improve current processes to better meet the needs of the team and those you work with.
- You are a critical thinker and passionate about understanding how the ever-changing market and business conditions could affect company performance.
- You have a professional demeanor with the ability to build and maintain trusted relationships across key stakeholders and groups.
- You take a consultative approach to understanding internal client needs.
- You are highly collaborative, and team focused, with the ability to work independently as well as part of a dynamic team. You thrive working across lines and influencing without authority.
- You have excellent organizational and time management skills.
- You are calm and collaborative under pressure.

**Requirements and skills**:

- Well-rounded, smiles, and has a good sense of humour
- Good communication and interpersonal skills; self-starter, team player, and results oriented.
- Your default setting is HAPPY.
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting.
- A minimum of 3 years of work experience in finance and in an FP&A role.
- Netsuite experience and PowerBI experience would be highly beneficial.
- Advanced experience in Excel. You’re a wizard and aren’t afraid of a little quiz on Excel.
- Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing, high-growth environment.
- You have superior written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Must be legally eligible to work in Canada for any employer.

**Who we are**:

- A fun, focused team, that works and plays hard
- We have monthly events and celebrate all our employees’ birthdayswith cake
- Did someone say drinks and snacks? Non-alcoholic drinks, of course We have that.
- V.I.P. - Very Important Parking, for a very important person, you If you drive, we’ll have a spot.

**Benefits**:

- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Tuition reimbursement
- Vision insurance

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

- White Rock, BC: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

**Experience**:

- Microsoft Excel: 1 year (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- CPA (preferred)

Work Location: One location