WSP

Senior Advisor, Financial Reporting & Executive Support

WSP • $112K — $154K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • CPA designation and 10+ years of finance experience, preferably in professional services or matrixed settings.
  • Experience in managing and coordinating financial reporting, forecasts, and budgets.
  • Strong analytical skills to rapidly identify financial risks and trends.
  • Capability to prioritize and manage multiple requests in a high-paced environment.
  • Attention to detail with strong professional judgment and ownership.
  • Effective communication skills for translating financial data into actionable insights.
  • Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Bilingual in English and French, fostering effective collaboration across teams.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate monthly financial reporting, forecasts, budgets, and executive presentations.
  • Lead complex reporting requests involving multiple Finance team members.
  • Collaborate with Finance Controllers and operations leadership to align expectations and outputs.
  • Manage competing requests based on urgency and business impact.
  • Analyze financial results against forecasts and provide insights on key drivers and risks.
  • Identify trends and anomalies in financial data to highlight opportunities for improvement.
  • Review financial reports for accuracy and investigate unusual variances.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to report directly to the VP Finance and be integral to strategic decision-making.
  • Collaborative work environment engaging with both Finance and operational leaders.
  • Focus on data integrity and compliance, enhancing risk management.
  • Opportunity to streamline financial processes and reporting.
  • Build strong relationships across diverse teams in a bilingual work environment.
Full Job Description
Job Description

The Opportunity

Unlock Potential

Bring clarity and insight to the financial information that guides strategic decisions across Earth & Environment. Reporting to the VP Finance, you will coordinate critical reporting, forecasts, budgets and executive deliverables while partnering with Finance Controllers and operational leaders to strengthen quality, consistency and timely decision-making.

Your Impact
  • Coordinate the preparation, consolidation, review and delivery of monthly financial reporting, forecasts, annual budgets, management reports and executive-level presentations.
  • Lead reporting requests that require input from multiple Finance team members, establishing clear ownership, timely follow-up and effective delivery.
  • Partner with Finance Controllers and operational leadership to align inputs, timelines, expectations and consistency across deliverables.
  • Prioritize competing requests from senior leadership and internal stakeholders based on urgency, business impact and available team capacity.
  • Analyze actual results against forecasts and budgets, highlighting key drivers, risks, opportunities and areas requiring action.
  • Interpret financial data and business metrics to identify trends, anomalies, inconsistencies and improvement opportunities.
  • Review financial reports and presentations for accuracy, completeness, consistency and reasonableness, identifying unusual variances for investigation.
  • Strengthen data integrity, reporting accuracy, IFRS compliance and internal controls, including 52-109 requirements.

The Skills That Set You Apart
  • CPA designation and 10+ years of progressive finance experience, ideally in a professional services or matrixed environment.
  • Proven experience preparing, reviewing and coordinating management reporting packages, forecasts, budgets and executive-level presentations.
  • Strong analytical, strategic-thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify errors, unusual trends and financial risks quickly.
  • Demonstrated ability to manage competing priorities and coordinate deliverables across multiple contributors in a fast-paced environment.
  • A high level of accuracy, attention to detail, professional judgment and ownership.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to translate financial information into clear insights for financial and non-financial stakeholders.
  • Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
  • Bilingual proficiency in English and French, combined with the ability to build effective working relationships across Finance and operations.

Compensation:

AB, BC, NT, NU, SK & YT: $122900 - 162800

MB & ON: $112100 - 154400

NB, NL, NS, PE & QC: $111000 - 147400

Disclosure: The final salary awarded for this role may vary from the above range based on several factors including, but not limited to, relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, and business or organizational needs. The wage range provided in this job posting may be subject to change for business purposes.

Make Your Mark with WSP

If you are ready to turn complex financial information into clear, actionable insight, we would love to hear from you. Apply today and help strengthen the decisions that shape our business.

About WSP

WSP is a Canadian engineering consulting firm that provides services to transform the built environment and restore the natural environment. The firm's expertise ranges from environmental remediation and urban planning, to engineering iconic buildings and designing sustainable transport networks, to developing the energy sources of the future and enabling new ways of extracting essential resources. It has approximately 54,000 employees, including engineers, technicians, scientists, architects, planners, surveyors, program and construction management professionals, and various environmental experts. WSP has offices in more than 40 countries and territories around the world.
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