Financial Specialist - IT Finance

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Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

We are seeking a Financial Specialist to join us in our Toronto or Montreal IT Finance team. This role will be part of a team that supports the IT Business Units of IT Services, Infrastructure and Security. If you are detail oriented, love working with IT project budgets, forecasts, and are tenacious about quality, this may be the right opportunity for you!

This dynamic role will require a balance of technical numerical proficiency, strong relationship building skills, and a good knowledge of project and operational portfolio financial management. You must possess strong organizational skills to lead and produce monthly reports and presentations that speak to IT executive management.

Key job responsibilities:

• Be a business partner by providing specific recommendations to meet our financial objectives and detailed explanations of budget variances

• Consolidation of the monthly IT executive management presentation

• Participate in IT forecasting and budgeting exercises so that the current and forecasted budget position of IT projects and portfolios are well understood and communicate.

• Run the resource forecast process. Compare budget and forecast resource budget demand against available staffing and contract resources. Provide insight through monthly resource forecasting reporting on resource budget and resourcing needed to complete IT projects

• Provide key actionable insights to senior IT management: create and maintain dashboard that explain deviations (actuals vs budget vs forecast)

• Continuous improvement of reporting such as refining metrics and visualizations.

• Simplifying report creation by taking advantage of opportunities to automate and streamline processes

• Validation and control of key budget inputs and resulting reports

• Following up with project stakeholders to gain more insight into project financial status

• Partner with key IT project stakeholders and become a trusted business partner

• Be a key team member in evolving Intact’s Total Cost of Ownership strategy and evolving our tools to achieve this

Your Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance or relevant experience required.

• Minimum 3-5 years of demonstrated experience in financial management or financial reporting is considered an asset.

• Advanced Excel (Macros / Pivots / Functions), Power Point, Word.

• Proven ability to think outside the box.

• Effective, clear, and concise communication and presentation skills and the ability to adapt to a wide audience.

• Attention to detail and quality is essential.

• CPA designation or MBA is considered a strong asset.

• Familiarity with project lifecycle, waterfall and agile work processes is an asset.

• Experience with Oracle Cloud ERP and Oracle Hyperion (Essbase) considered an asset.

• Comfortable learning other various IT Tools.

• Passionate about people. You build trust through respect and authenticity. Customer-oriented focus and the ability to deal effectively with multiple demands.

• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.

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We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.