Financial Analyst

Description:

Bell is a truly Canadian company with a 137-year track record of success. We are defined by the passion of our team members and their belief in our company’s vast potential. To ensure we continue to be recognized as Canada’s leading Communications Company, we are committed to finding and developing the next generation of leaders. This means creating best-in-class career and development opportunities for our employees.
If you’re passionate, driven and find yourself seeking interesting work, new challenges and continuous learning opportunities, then we want you to join our team. Includes corporate and operational finance, internal teams support, the controllers group, internal audit and risk advisory services, taxation, treasury, corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions.
Bell’s Business Market Finance team is seeking a qualified Financial Analyst who can bring clarity and focus to financial process, analysis and reporting specifically for Bell’s top 100 customers. We are looking for a dynamic and responsible self-starter, who is detail-oriented with strong leadership skills. The candidate will work closely with various Business stakeholders to provide detailed financials on large customer deals as well as develop deal specific tracking & reporting profitability models.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare detailed financials on large customer deals, including key financial metrics (Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, Contribution Margin, etc.)
• Working closely with the Sales team, Network Architects, Pricing specialists and Operation primes to optimize financials and ensure competitiveness of the solution.
• Perform monthly and quarterly detailed customer profitability analysis and liaise with the dedicated Customer prime to trend (YTD, YEE), identify key issues/risks and provide insightful financial recommendations. This would also take into account monthly analysis of specific project results vs. business case trackable cash flows.
• Develop annual trackable plans for deals/customer by leveraging the Knowledge Transfer Session with customer primes to determine monthly trackable cash flows.
• Identify key areas for profit improvement including revenue up-sell and COGS reduction opportunities.
• Represent the Finance Team on other initiatives that may have financial dependencies to assess impacts, risks, and business requirements.

Critical Qualifications

• University Degree in Finance, Administration
• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or in the process of obtaining designation
• Minimum of 2 years experience, ideally in the Telecom environment
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to work in a fast-paced environment with great autonomy
• Strong financial skills and knowledge (e.g., management reporting processes, IFRS, SOX)
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (notably Excel and PowerPoint)
• Excellent speaking, writing and listening skills
• Strong organizing and planning skills
• Proven ability to work under pressure, manage a number of projects simultaneously and meet tight deadlines