Sr. Financial Planning

We are seeking a Senior Financial Planning &Analysis Analyst (FP&A Analyst) to help lead WCLC's budgeting, forecasting and financial modeling process. This role designs and maintains models to support scenario planning and strategic decisions, by partnering with business leaders and finance team. The incumbent will be an effective communicator, critical thinker, and innovative problem-solver who approaches their role with a collaborative mindset.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the annual budgeting process and quarterly forecast across WCLC, ensuring alignment with strategic goals, cross-functional collaboration, and timely delivery of accurate financial projections.
• Develop and maintain profitability reporting, leveraging a strong understanding of product segment performance to deliver actionable insights that support strategic decision-making.
• Prepare the monthly financial analysis review, providing key insights into performance metrics and trends to deliver actionable insights and strategic recommendations to senior leadership.
• Confirm budget during procurement and project authorization processes, ensuring alignment with financial policies and compliance requirements.
• Manage operational expense accommodations across departments, ensuring accuracy for budget and forecasting alignment.
• Work collaboratively with departments as a partner to analyze business cases, producing actionable key metrics to support decisions and planning.

Qualifications and Experience

• 3 – 5 years of experience in FP&A, financial modelling, budgeting and forecasting, or related roles.
• Bachelor's degree in at least one or more of the following: Commerce, Economics, Business Administration, Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, or CPA, CFA or nearing end stages or related credentials related to financial planning and modelling.
• Experience in financial modelling, scenario planning trend and sensitivity analysis.
• Advance Excel skills and experience with data analytic tools; Snowflake, Tableau, Power BI.
• Strong budgeting and forecasting skills with attention to detail.
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and adaptable to changing business needs.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, with an ability to convey complex financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
• Collaborative mindset with cross-functional business partnership experience.

 Who we are  

You may not be very familiar with WCLC, but you're almost certainly familiar with the products we help bring to players throughout the Prairie Provinces and the North every day; lottery games like LOTTO 6/49, SPORT SELECT, and dozens of instant scratch tickets.   

WCLC is the non-profit organization authorized to manage, conduct, and operate lotteries – at retail and online – and other gaming-related activities for the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as well as the Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut. We work closely with our provincial partners to bring a first-rate lottery experience to our players and meet their changing needs with new technology and tools.   

We know it's our people that make this possible, which is why we invest in building talented, adaptable, and accountable teams who are proud to live and work in our region. We'd love to talk to you about how you fit into that.