Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)

Key Responsibilities

Planning, Budgeting & Forecasting

• Support the annual budget process, including templates, assumptions, data collection, consolidation, quality control and presentation materials.
• Prepare and maintain monthly and quarterly rolling forecasts in partnership with the Director, FP&A and business leaders.
• Build and maintain driver-based financial models covering store revenue, gross margin, labour, operating expenses, capital expenditures and cash flow.
• Maintain multi-entity consolidation models and help integrate acquired businesses into a consistent planning and reporting structure.

Management Reporting & Performance Analysis

• Prepare monthly management reporting, including performance versus budget, forecast and prior year, with clear variance explanations by store, banner, channel and business unit.
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards for measures such as same-store sales, gross margin percentage, labour productivity, inventory turns and store-level profitability.
• Identify performance trends, risks and opportunities, and prepare concise insights and recommendations for management.
• Perform ad hoc financial analysis and scenario modelling to support operational and strategic decisions.

MD&A, Executive & Lender Reporting

• Draft financial commentary and Management Discussion & Analysis (MD&A) for monthly and quarterly results, ensuring consistency with actual results validated by Accounting.
• Support the preparation of executive, board and lender reporting materials, including financial performance, outlook and key business trends.
• Create clear charts, bridges and narratives that translate complex financial information into decision-useful messages.

EPM Implementation & Reporting Automation

• Support the Director, FP&A as business lead for the selected EPM implementation, including requirements gathering, model design, testing, data validation, documentation and user adoption.
• Reconcile and validate data between EPM models, the general ledger, accounting systems and operational data sources.
• Help automate recurring reporting and reduce reliance on manual Excel-based processes while maintaining strong controls and auditability.

Business Partnership & Continuous Improvement

• Partner with Operations, Merchandising, Marketing and other functional teams to understand business drivers and assess the financial implications of decisions.
• Work closely with Accounting and Controllership to ensure a clean handoff of monthly close data into management reporting, forecasts and analysis.
• Document and improve FP&A processes, models, reporting standards and data definitions.
• Provide analytical support for acquisitions, integration activities and other strategic initiatives, as required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or a related field; CPA, CFA or MBA completed or in progress is an asset.
• Approximately 4–7 years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting or a related analytical role. Relevant experience and demonstrated capability may substitute for years of experience.
• Demonstrated hands-on experience with budgeting, forecasting, management reporting and financial variance analysis.
• Strong financial modelling skills, including experience with multi-entity or multi-business-unit consolidation models.
• Advanced Excel skills; experience with Power BI, Tableau or other business intelligence and reporting tools is an asset.
• Experience implementing, administering or using an EPM platform such as Anaplan, OneStream, Oracle Hyperion or a comparable solution is strongly preferred.
• Retail or distribution experience is strongly preferred, ideally in a multi-store or multi-unit environment with exposure to store-level P&Ls, same-store sales, labour productivity and inventory turns.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results clearly to finance and non-finance stakeholders.
• High degree of accuracy, ownership and organization, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines in a fast-paced and evolving environment.
• Exposure to financial integration following acquisitions is an asset.
• French and English communication skills are an asset given the role’s collaboration across Québec and Canadian operations.

Core Competencies

What Success Looks Like

• Delivers accurate, timely and increasingly automated planning and reporting outputs.
• Produces analysis that explains not only what changed, but why it changed and what action is required.
• Builds trusted working relationships with Finance and operating leaders while maintaining analytical independence.
• Supports the Director, FP&A in establishing a scalable, disciplined and high-impact FP&A function for TRC.