Financial Analyst at ILAC – Toronto, Ontario

Job Title: Financial Analyst, FP&A

Reports To: Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Company: ILAC Education Group (ILAC)

Job Type: Permanent Full-Time

Location: This position is four (4) days in the office at ILAC’s 120 Bloor Street East location.

About Us:

ILAC Education Group is an industry leader with a mission to change lives through education and create opportunities for international students to achieve their dreams.

For over 28 years, ILAC has offered thousands of international students an immersive learning experience with award-winning English language programs, cultural diversity, exceptional customer service and beautiful campuses in Toronto and Vancouver.

ILAC offerings include high school, in-person and online language training, summer camps, pathways to higher education in Canada and the US, study & work programs, language testing centres, and student housing.

Why is this role exciting?

This is an opportunity for a curious and diligent recent graduate or a CPA student to take on a financial planning & analysis role with significant potential for growth. The successful candidate will benefit from the following:

• Interaction with senior executives: As a highly visible member of a small finance team, the successful candidate will have significant interaction with the CFO, CEO, senior management, and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Financial Analysis:
• Assist in the preparation of weekly, monthly, and quarterly reports for internal stakeholders (senior management) and external stakeholders (Lenders, Owners). This includes monthly financial reporting packages; weekly cash reporting; regular cash forecasting; lender reporting; board reporting packages.
• Meet with managers on a regular basis to review their departments’ financial and KPI performance
• Work closely with the accounting team to implement improvements to posting practices based on internal user input
• Participating in the annual budget process; meet with internal managers to collect input; update, improvement, and maintenance of templates
• Support ad-hoc analysis and preparation of presentations for senior users (including board-level materials)
• Support the month-end process as required
• Extract and prepare data from various operational sources; upload to data warehouse; maintenance and update of mapping tables in data warehouse; make use of data warehouse to build reporting.
• Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree required in a quantitative discipline such as Finance, Business Management, Economics, or a related field
• CPA in progress or completed
• Candidate must have prior work experience as a financial analyst.
• Applicable work experience and skills:
• Exposure to budgeting, forecasting, and ad-hoc analysis
• Participation in / support of month-end close activities
• Strong MS Excel skills
• Experience with or interest in financial analysis and related tools – such as Power BI and equivalents, SQL and/or data warehousing tools, etc. a strong asset.
• Prioritization –Demonstrated ability to stay on task in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment. Ability to prioritize with multiple competing priorities.
• Communications – Strong oral and written communication skills. Proactive communicator with a keen sense of how to deeply connect with people and build trust. Able to effectively explain and articulate financial and business fundamentals to a variety of people, with varying degrees of financial and business knowledge, both internally and externally. Ability to build strong relationships and engage people across the organization and foster buy-in to new ideas and concepts.
• Character – Respected for business ethics, integrity, and common-sense approach. Balances a can-do attitude with a pragmatic approach to getting work done in a timely manner. Is smart, practical, hardworking and can roll up their sleeves when required to meet objectives.