Principal Financial Analyst

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YOUR IMPACT
There is a unique opportunity to join the OpenText FP team as a Principal Financial Analyst. As a member of the FP organization, the Lead Financial Analyst will partner across the organization to consolidate, monitor, process, and report OPEX, P and allocation results. You will partner with business leaders in making informed operational and investment decisions and have broad exposure within OpenText in this centralized function.
You will bring experience with monthly results reporting& analysis, budgeting/forecasting and business analysis and financial modeling. The position requires an individual with a high degree of autonomy, a broad understanding of Infrastructure and a solid financial acumen.
WHAT THE ROLE OFFERS
- Oversight of consolidation, validation, and reporting capital forecast and budgets which includes variance analysis and commentary.
- Ability to drive and maintain allocation of expenses. This includes process, models, and systems.
- Opportunity to recommend actions by analyzing and interpreting financial and operational data. This may include scenario analysis, aggregation of necessary data, development of supporting models, coordination with Business Leaders to determine assumptions, and completion of key metrics, reporting, and benchmarks.
- Partnership with Accounting for Close process duties, including capital review, trend analysis, variance analysis.
- Gather information and data from various systems, reporting tools, and people.
- Ability to bring data together in a meaningful way to provide granular insight into the various models.
- Perform ad-hoc analysis to support various business initiatives and special projects.

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
- 5+ years of progressive experience in FP with Business partnership experience, prior experience in technology or telecom industry preferred.
- Outstanding data analytical and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail.
- Strong excel, financial and ERP reporting, Power BI, Tableau skills
- Collaborative, able to influence across teams, comfortable dealing with ambiguity.
- work both independently and as part of a team
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Accounting or Economics. Advance degree desirable.
- Demonstrated capability in cross-functional team environments.
- Having and being able to articulate/defend an informed opinion on important topics.
- Process improvement and automation

**Work Arrangement**: This role will be office-based out of either the Waterloo, ON office or Richmond Hill, ON office. Employees need to be in the office on OpenText corporate days (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) to drive maximum coordination and collaboration.
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