Country Financial Analyst

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Country Financial Analyst

**Requisition ID**:8753**Location**:Mississauga, ON, CA, L4V 1S7**Pay Type**:Salary**WHO IS LAFARGE?**
As a global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions, Lafarge is enabling greener cities, smarter infrastructure and improving living standards around the world. With sustainability at the core of our strategy, we are becoming a net-zero company, with our people and communities at the heart of our success. We are driving circular construction as a world leader in recycling to build more with less. It’s all thanks to our 70,000 talented people around the world who are passionate about building progress for people and the planet through four business segments: Cement, Ready-Mix Concrete, Aggregates and Solutions & Products.

**WHO ARE LAFARGE PEOPLE?**
Lafarge people are passionate about finding better ways to build. They embrace innovation and improvement with a pioneering spirit. They work as trusted partners, creating better solutions and experiences for their customers, communities, and colleagues.

**Objective & Overview**
- The Country Financial Analyst provides management reporting, financial analysis, and decision support.
- This position works to improve understanding of key business drivers and maximize results within the country/segments/markets.
- The Analyst works closely with, and in support of, the Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis.

**Responsibilities**
- Safety:
- Communicating, improving and adhering to safety policies in all work environments
- Month end Activities and Reporting:
- Performing month end activities i.e. journal entries. Lead a team of segment analyst in the coordination and consolidation of month end reporting requirements.
- Reporting encompasses financials, key performance indicators and commentary explaining business.
- Account Reconciliations & Variance Analysis:
- Analyzing and reconciling accounts and cost centers.
- Performing variance analysis and account reviews to make sure balances are in line with expectations.
- Developing commentary to explain major variances.
- Financial Campaigns:
- Assisting with planning and execution of various financial campaigns throughout the year.
- Forecast, budgeting, cost action planning, audits and ad hoc campaigns.
- Holding planning meetings with stakeholders involved to establish key deliverables and the processes to execute the campaign.
- Developing templates and processes to ensure proper validation and consolidation at a segment and country level.
- Ensuring alignment with Group and Regional requirements and targets.
- Reporting Compliance:
- Collaborating and monitoring with various reporting system owners to ensure proper account mapping, LHARP compliance and reporting views are established.
- Systems include SAP ECC, SAP FC, Qlikview and BPC.
- Process Improvement:
- Continuously reviewing for process improvement.
- Utilizing reporting tools to making processes efficient. (i.e. developing a report in a system to automate the delivery)
- Accounting Standards Compliance:
- Assisting ensuring compliance and implementation of accounting standards (i.e. IFRS standards)
- Relationship with Others- Actively working with segment analysts, FP&A manager, financial directors and Head of finance.
- Collaborating with shared services (ABS & NABS), department directors/managers (i.e. Treasury, Tax)

Specific Accountabilities:
- Adheres to health and safety practices and policies
- Support of month end close & related activities
- Timely delivery of analytical & Ad hoc request in support of country reporting
- Provide accurate financial modelling support including forecast and budgets
- Continuous process improvement including automation & efficiency
- Dimensions- This position will directly report to the FP&A manager

**Qualification Profile**
- Undergraduate degree in Finance or Accounting or Business/Commerce degree
- 3 - 5 years professional experience required
- Enrollment in a Professional accounting program (CA, CMA, CGA or CPA) preferred
- SAP FC/SAP ECC/BPC experience an asset
- Strong ability to work independently
- Advanced MS Excel and Access skills for reporting and data analysis
- Advanced MS Powerpoint skills for presentation to senior management
- In depth systems knowledge and experience
- Exceptional interpersonal skills
- verbal and written
- Demonstrated ability in financial/business analysis
- Excellent organizational skills
- Business Intelligence skills
- IFRS knowledge
- Ability to multi-task
- Demonstrated ability in financial/business analysis
- Excellent organizational skills
- Lominger Competency- Functional/Technical Skills
- Action Oriented
- Drive for Results
- Informing