Fp&a Consultant

**We provide work flexibility whereby team members have the option to work remotely or from our Toronto office.**
Limelight's cloud financial planning, forecasting & reporting platform automates manual spreadsheet processes so businesses can spend more time on data insights. As we continue to scale, it's important to us to nurture the culture we have built where team members work closely together to solve problems, innovate, and get creative. We are hardworking, we are serious about what we do, and we have a ton of fun, too.
Limelight is looking for a **FP&A Performance Consultant **to join the team
Reporting to the Director of Client Experience, we are looking for a Finance and Performance Consultant who is a customer-oriented problem solver with a strong financial analytical background and technical knowledge. You will be working with a team of Project Managers, Data Analytic Consultants, and Solutions Architects in our matrix environment to ensure our Limelight platform rollouts super exceed clients’ expectations.
**FP&A Performance Consultant**
As a Finance and Performance Consultant, you will work closely with key stakeholders in finance (CFO, VP, Director, Controller) to connect their strategic goals to FP&A model design. You must have a deep understanding of the FP&A planning/reporting process, knowledge of metrics that Finance leaders hold their business accountable to, and challenges at all levels within the FP&A function. Intimate knowledge of financial statements is a must.
Your main responsibilities will be to partner with key decision-makers in finance to host Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions. These sessions act as the kick-off for our projects where functional requirements and technical requirements are discussed and translated into the model design that will support the FP&A modernization initiative we’ve been engaged to deliver. You must be able to speak the language of finance, dive deep into their planning/reporting and bring forward best practices that will enhance their process.
This role requires a Finance foundation in addition to a technical understanding of FP&A models built on data models & hierarchal structures.
As part of this role you will:

- Work closely with clients' Finance leadership teams to uncover where improvements can be made within their FP&A processes and to understand what outcomes their strategy is targeting
- Deliver JAD sessions to extract the technical/functional requirements
- Translate technical/functional requirements from JAD sessions to model design documentation
- Develop reporting within Limelight to support the delivery and implementation of the project
- Minimum 2 years experience in FP&A
- Minimum 2 years of consulting experience
- Experience with building FP&A models
- Strong finance and accounting background
- Project management is an asset
- Understanding of data governance principles and best practices
- Skilled in communication with clients and team members
- Focused on relationship building and client centricity
- Having worked with ERP or other FP&A products is value-add
- Knowledgeable of market trends within FP&A and Performance Management

Some reasons our team loves working here:

- We emphasize a highly collaborative environment. Everyone builds things and collaborates across departments. The best solution can come from anywhere or anyone
- We’re fierce defenders of healthy work-life flexibility
- Respect, trust, and honesty. Personal and professional maturity is important to us, and we keep each other honest
- We pay competitive salaries and have a flexible vacation
- We provide great benefits: drug, dental, vision, life
- We have an amazing team that will be eager to help you succeed in your role and grow and develop in your career

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