Finance Advisor - Temporary

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Air Canada is seeking a highly motivated, energetic, and ambitious individual to learn and progress in their career with Air Canada. The Finance Advisor represents Finance and works with the team which supports the finances of the Air Canada Maintenance branch.

Air Canada Maintenance represents one of the key financial drivers for the airline as a whole.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver value added service to ACM Inventory Planning business unit by identifying, and evaluating profitability enhancing opportunities and strategies, internal process changes and new cost savings opportunities.
• Develop and manage effective working relationships with branch leader and strategic partners to ensure buy-in of solutions and changes in processes and strategy.
• Master our M&E system (TRAX) financial transactions: provide guidance on proper accounting impact of branch transactions and work with Finance-Audits team to report, identify and assess transactional inaccuracies.
• Master Balance Sheet transactions, understanding, flow of costs. Partner with YWG, Supply Accounts, Audits and BFO team to educate team on accounting principles to best support the business and sound financial decisions.
• Support Capital Budgeting initiatives for all Air Canada Maintenance business units. Provide timely and accurate reporting and support all related financial activities.
• Partner with YWG Finance to ensure all aspects of inventory are in line with both accounting and corporate direction.
• Lead the development and implementation of Financial Performance Indicators for better understanding of the cause-and-effect relationship of costs and to assure the efficiency and the performance of the business unit.
• Lead, collaboratively, with the ACM branch, process improvement initiatives that provide better financial controls, understanding, and strategic decision-making around Inventory and other financial processes.
• Ensure a consistently high-level of quality in service provided relative to both timelines and accuracy.
• Work with the PowerBI team to update and improve inventory dashboards.
• Work with Principal, Finance Business Partner on the documenting of the Air Canada Unifier new or updated processes.
• Other Ad-hoc financial analysis and project management support.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of relevant experience.
• Undergraduate degree in Business, Accounting or Finance is required
• Accounting and/or business designation CPA is an asset
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to analyze and report back on complex data.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with others
• Self-started, energetic with strong sense of initiative and creativity.
• Ability to learn financial systems quickly
• Demonstrated organization skills and ability to work under pressure and reach to changing timelines.
• Ability to build and maintain advanced financial models in Microsoft Excel and intermediate to advanced PowerPoint & PowerBI skills.
• Experience working with Alteryx is an asset
• Experience in aviation supply chain is an asset
• Experience with TRAX system is an asset
• Demonstrate punctuality and dependability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

Conditions of Employment:

Candidates must be eligible to work in the country of interest at the time any offer of employment is made and are responsible for obtaining any required work permits, visas, or other authorizations necessary for employment. Prior to their start date, candidates will also need to provide proof of their eligibility to work in the country of interest.

Linguistic Requirements

Based on equal qualifications, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and Inclusion

Air Canada is strongly committed to Diversity and Inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding work environment which highlights employees’ unique contributions to our company’s success.

As an equal opportunity employer, we welcome applications from all to help us build a diverse workforce which reflects the diversity of our customers, and communities, in which we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all candidates for their interest; however only those selected to continue in the process will be contacted.