Financial Planning & Analysis Analyst

Mawer

$100K — $130K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance, Business or a quantitative discipline
  • Professional designation (e.g. CPA, CFA) or graduate degree preferred
  • 5+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, or analytics roles
  • Strong financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario analysis skills
  • Experience with large datasets and complex business drivers
  • Familiarity with BI and data tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SQL)
  • Ability to synthesize complexity into clear, compelling narratives

Responsibilities

  • Partner with senior leaders for budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
  • Develop and maintain driver-based financial models
  • Conduct scenario analysis to support strategic decision-making
  • Translate complex data into actionable insights
  • Analyze large datasets to identify trends and leading indicators
  • Design dashboards and self-serve analytics to elevate insight quality
  • Deliver impactful ad hoc analysis for various business initiatives

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Retirement planning assistance with RSP contributions
  • Annual learning stipend
  • Parental leave top-up
  • Employee Matching Program for community contributions
Full Job Description
Full Time
Location: Toronto, ON or Calgary, AB
Vacancy Status: Existing Role
Salary Range: $100k-130k/year


The Opportunity

This role sits at the intersection of finance, data, and strategy and is critical to delivering forward-looking insights that inform senior leadership decision making. This is not a traditional reporting role. This role will help drive how Financial Planning & Analysis partners with the business, leveraging data, modeling, and storytelling to drive clarity, discipline, and value across the organization.

Duties and Responsibilities

Strategic Financial Planning

  • Partner with senior leaders across the organization to support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
  • Develop and maintain robust, driver-based financial models that link financial outcomes to operational and strategic levers
  • Develop scenario analysis and sensitivity modeling to support strategic initiatives, investments, and resource allocation decisions
  • Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, execute-ready insights


Advanced Analytics & Data Driven Insights

  • Analyze large, multidimensional datasets (financial, operational, Assets Under Management, headcount, product, pricing)
  • Identify trends, anomalies, and leading indicators that influence financial outcomes
  • Design and enhance dashboards, visualizations, and self-serve analytics
  • Elevate the quality of insights by moving from descriptive reporting to diagnostic and predictive analysis


Data, Systems & Process Excellence

  • Support finance system enhancements, automation, and tool implementation (e.g., budgeting and forecasting platforms)
  • Reduce manual processes and improve scalability through automation, standardization and improved processes
  • Ensure a strong, reliable data foundation to support strategic analysis


Enterprise Support & Ad Hoc Analysis

  • Deliver high impact ad hoc analysis (e.g., pricing, compensation modeling, product profitability, cost efficiency)
  • Support cross functional initiatives including new product launches, and transformation efforts
  • Contribute to a high-performance Financial Planning & Analysis culture grounded in curiosity, rigor, and collaboration


Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in a Finance, Business or quantitative discipline
  • Professional designation (e.g. CPA, CFA) or graduate degree (Masters in Finance, Economics, Data Science, Mathematics, or a related field) preferred; equivalent experience will be considered
  • 5+ years of experience in FP&A, strategic finance, and/or analytics focused finance roles
  • Demonstrated strength in financial modeling, forecasting, and scenario analysis
  • Experience working with large datasets and complex business drivers
  • Exposure to investment management, asset management, or professional services is an asset
  • Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills
  • Experience with BI and data tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, SQL, or similar)
  • Demonstrated ability to leverage AI and data tools to improve analysis, automate workflows, or enhance decision support is a strong asset
  • Comfortable working with imperfect data and improving it over time
  • Ability to connect financial outcomes to operational and strategic drivers
  • An innate drive for data quality, governance, and usability
  • Naturally curious and analytical; asks "why" and "what's next"
  • Able to synthesize complexity into clear, compelling narratives
  • Confident partnering with senior stakeholders while maintaining analytical independence
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and a fast-evolving environment
  • Result focused, outcome-driven, and proactive


Our Benefits and Perks Include:

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Unlimited vacation days
  • Retirement planning assistance, including RSP contributions
  • Annual learning stipend
  • Parental leave top-up
  • Significant community investment contribution via our Employee Matching Program


To apply, please submit your resume, cover letter, and application by July 29, 2026, to: https://www.mawer.com/careers/

All candidates must be eligible to work in Canada.

We believe experience comes in many forms and we're committed to adding new perspectives to our team. If your experience is close to what we've outlined, we encourage you to apply.

At Mawer, we are committed to fostering a culture of diversity and inclusion. We strive to attract, hire, develop, and retain the best people from a wide variety of backgrounds/experiences and create an environment where unique ideas and perspectives are heard and valued. We believe a diverse and inclusive culture fuels innovation and enables more effective decision-making across the firm, helping to improve investment performance, strengthen client partnerships, and create more value for all stakeholders: clients, employees, owners, and society.

Our processes are people-driven. We may use technology for scheduling, communication and screening but we do not use AI for candidate assessment, or selection; those decisions are made by our team.

No telephone inquiries please.We thank all applicants and advise that only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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