Lead Strategic Financial Analyst

🔥 14 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $120k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

💸 Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A)

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Lightspeed Commerce

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2005

☁️ SaaS

🛒 Retail

SaaS • Retail

Lightspeed Commerce is a cloud-based point-of-sale (POS) and payments SaaS platform that powers in-person and online commerce for retailers, restaurants, golf facilities and wholesalers. It provides omnichannel POS, inventory management, eCommerce, payments and reconciliation, workforce and payroll, analytics/insights (including Lightspeed AI), hardware integrations, capital/funding, and wholesale tools (NuORDER). Lightspeed emphasizes scalable, customizable systems for multi-location businesses and reports supporting ~150,000 customer locations worldwide.

📋 Description

• Tackle complex, open-ended questions spanning multiple parts of the business and bring structure to ambiguity • Understand how different businesses make money, identify key growth drivers, and assess whether growth is sustainable • Connect individual business performance to the broader consolidated picture • Build financial models and analysis from the ground up to answer strategic questions and support business decisions • Find, access, and validate data, including working directly with SQL and BI tools • Improve in-year and long-range forecasting by strengthening methodologies and key drivers, increasing accuracy, and making processes more efficient and explainable • Own the monthly and quarterly finance rhythm • Partner with business teams on reviews and reporting • Challenge assumptions, identify risks and opportunities, and turn complex analysis into clear recommendations for senior finance leadership and business leaders • Report to the Director, Strategic Finance & Insights and work directly with the VP Finance and CFO

🎯 Requirements

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to bring structure to ambiguous or unowned problems • Sound financial modelling skills, including building driver-based models and three-statement analysis from the ground up • Experience working with data directly, including SQL or an equivalent querying tool and a BI platform • Strong business curiosity and ability to investigate business drivers • Ability to challenge assumptions and numbers while building trusted relationships with business partners • Strong communication skills, with the ability to make complex analysis clear and actionable for finance and non-finance audiences • Experience working in a complex business with multiple revenue streams or business models • Availability to work within EST/EDT hours • Legal eligibility to work in Canada is addressed in the application requirements

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work environment • Flexible paid time off and remote work policies • Equity options • Contributions to your pension plan • Training opportunities • Health and wellness credit • Time off to volunteer • Interest groups, employee-led networks, social committees, sponsored sports teams • Computer purchase program to get your personal Macbook • Enhanced parental leave • Medical, dental, wellness, life and disability insurance • RRSP plan and match • Paid parental leave top-up • Paid time off