Financial Planning

Overview:
As an FP&A Analyst at High Tide, you will support financial planning, performance management, and strategic decision-making across our expanding operations. This role requires a strong understanding of budgeting and forecasting, financial modeling, and cross-functional collaboration. You will partner with stakeholders to drive data-informed decisions and create long-term value.

Our FP&A analysts must go beyond the numbers to provide actionable insights that help drive strategic decisions. FP&A sits at the center of the business, so the ability to partner effectively across teams is critical. You’ll quickly become a go-to resource who connects the dots between data and decision-making.

**Responsibilities**:

- Build and maintain complex financial models to support forecasting (e.g. Free cash Flow, Gross Margin and EBITDA), budgeting, long-range planning, and strategic initiatives.
- Provide monthly and quarterly variance analyses, identifying key trends, risks, and opportunities across product lines and geographies.
- Support reporting and commentary for earnings releases and quarterly board presentations.
- Collaborate with business unit leaders to evaluate business performance and provide actionable insights.
- Analyze key financial and non-financial metrics to support margin optimization and operational efficiency.
- Support scenario analysis and business case modeling for new strategic projects, market entries, product launches, and capital investments.
- Adhere to relevant SOX compliance as required in a public company environment.
- Partner closely with accounting and operations to ensure data accuracy and financial alignment.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field (MBA or CPA preferred).
- 2-5 years of FP&A, corporate finance, or business analysis experience—ideally in a highly regulated or multi-entity environment.
- Experience in the cannabis industry, CPG, retail, or manufacturing is highly preferred.
- Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills; proficiency in ERP systems (e.g., Sage, NetSuite, SAP) and BI tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Adaptive).
- Strong understanding of IFRS and public company reporting standards.
- Exceptional attention to detail, analytical thinking, and communication skills.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving industry with shifting regulatory requirements.
- Ability to manage confidential information with integrity and discretion.

About Us:
**High Tide Inc.** is the leading community-grown, retail-forward cannabis enterprise engineered to unleash the full value of the world’s most powerful plant and is the second-largest cannabis retailer globally by store count**⁷**. High Tide (HITI) is uniquely-built around the cannabis consumer, with wholly-diversified and fully-integrated operations across all components of cannabis, including:

- Bricks & Mortar Retail: Canna Cabana is the largest cannabis retail chain in Canada, with 194 current locations spanning British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Ontario and growing. In 2021, Canna Cabana became the first cannabis discount club retailer in the world.
- Retail Innovation: Fastendr is a unique and fully automated technology that employs retail kiosks to facilitate a better buying experience through browsing, ordering and pickup.

Wholesale Distribution: High Tide keeps that cannabis category stocked with wholesale solutions via Valiant.

Licensing: High Tide continues to push cannabis culture forward through fresh partnerships and license agreements under the Famous Brandz name.

High Tide consistently moves ahead of the currents, having been named one of Canada’s Top Growing Companies in 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024 by the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business Magazine, and was named as one of the top 10 performing diversified industries stocks in both 2022 and 2024 TSX Venture 50. High Tide was also ranked number one in the retail category on the Financial Times list of Americas’ Fastest Growing Companies for 2024.