Financial Manager Job - North America

Company Name:		Club Penguin
Website:		www.clubpenguin.com
Preferred Start Date:		ASAP
Salary:		Competitive
Location:		Kelowna
Job Type:		Finance
Category:		Finance and Accounting

This position is now closed - thank you for your interest.

General:

Reporting to the Director of Finance and Accounting (DFA), the Financial Manager, North America (FMNA) will provide finance support and leadership and will be responsible for partnering with the rest of the finance team and business leaders to drive operating performance, delivering on business initiatives, growth and profitability. In addition, the FMNA will be responsible for managing and leading all financial planning, analysis and reporting efforts, working closely with DFA to ensure that all requirements are met.

Responsibilities:

Drive all planning process, 5-year Strategic Plan, Annual Operating Plan, and monthly forecasts (Profit and Loss, Head count, Base Cost, and Cash Flow).
Identify opportunities and lead projects designed to drive operating performance, delivering on business initiatives, growth and profitability.
Develop detailed financial models based on key drivers to facilitate the planning and forecasting process.
Prepare financial reporting and consolidation packages, submissions, analysis, and narrative. Work with cross-functional teams to enhance the understanding of key business metrics, with a goal to drive increased profitability. Analyze trends and variances, highlighting concerns and interpret business results.
Improve financial data collection, reporting and analysis as well as develop, and support Financial Planning and Analysis initiatives to improve and streamline processes.
Support the business in providing the financial data around new product launches and marketing initiatives.
Lead the development, production, monitoring, and reporting of KPI's to identify risk and ways to impact the bottom line.
Implement ongoing process improvements throughout the business. Other duties as assigned by the DFA.

Skills/Experience:

Superior analytical skills with the ability to provide accurate forecasts and business insights with a high level attention to detail.
Demonstrated business sense with the ability to understand the corporate impacts of business decisions including cost benefit analysis and the assignment of reasonable assumptions and variable values to generate appropriate outcomes such as ROI etc.
Demonstrated drive to achieve results, prioritize effectively while keeping the focus on the customer and desired outcomes.
Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate effectively; demonstrated ability to collaborate with other departments and build strong working relationships.
Strong organizational skills with proven problem solving ability and the ability to anticipate change and react efficiently and expeditiously.
Solid understanding of business professionalism and the ability to work in a team environment and an ability to handle diversity in a fast paced working environment.
Must be assertive and resourceful and have the discretion to handle confidential issues.
Proactive with the ability to effectively manage various projects simultaneously to strict deadlines and ability to anticipate change and react expeditiously.

Qualifications:

University degree + CA/CMA/CGA/MBA
7-10 yrs progressive experience with a focus on budgeting, planning and analysis.
Demonstrated technical competence with PC: Microsoft Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Outlook and other office automation equipment.