Interim Senior Financial Analyst / FP&A Analyst
Cambridge, ON - Onsite
Immediate Start
Contract Opportunity for 2-3 months
Our client, a growing global manufacturing organization, is seeking an experienced Interim Senior Financial Analyst / FP&A Analyst to join their finance team on an urgent contract basis. This is a high-impact opportunity for a hands-on finance professional who can quickly assume ownership of critical reporting, revenue reconciliations, commission calculations, and month-end activities with minimal transition time.
This role is ideal for someone with a strong accounting foundation, advanced Excel capabilities, and experience working with large ERP data sets in a fast-paced manufacturing, distribution, or product-based environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Own monthly financial reporting and support a fast-paced month-end close cycle.
- Perform detailed revenue reconciliations between the general ledger, sales reports, shipment data, and supporting operational records.
- Calculate and validate complex sales commissions across multiple transactions, arrangements, territories, and compensation structures.
- Extract, reconcile, and consolidate high-volume ERP data into accurate financial and management reports.
- Prepare and review month-end accruals, including commissions, freight, and labour-related accruals.
- Analyze financial results, investigate discrepancies, and ensure the accuracy and integrity of reporting.
- Prepare cost centre, commercial, revenue, and R&D reporting and analysis.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, and reforecasting activities as required.
- Partner with Finance, Sales, Operations, and business leaders to explain financial results and provide actionable insights.
- Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting efficiency, and internal controls.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards and company policies.
Qualifications
Required
- CPA designation or active pursuit of CPA considered a strong asset.
- Strong technical accounting knowledge, including: Revenue recognition; Accrual accounting; General ledger reconciliations; Month-end close processes; GAAP and financial reporting principles
- Experience preparing and analyzing financial statements and management reports.
- Proven experience performing detailed revenue reconciliations and financial analysis.
- Hands-on experience calculating and reviewing complex sales commissions.
- Advanced Excel skills, including working with large data set manipulation and analysis
- Experience working with ERP systems and extracting high-volume transactional data.
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain financial information to both finance and non-finance stakeholders.
- Ability to work independently, take ownership quickly, and manage competing priorities in a deadline-driven environment.
Preferred
- Experience within manufacturing, industrial, distribution, or product-based organizations.
- Exposure to multi-entity operations.
- Experience supporting commercial finance and revenue reporting functions.
- Familiarity with ERP platforms such as SAP, Infor CSI/SyteLine, Oracle, Dynamics, or similar systems.
- Experience in interim, consulting, project-based, or contract finance assignments.
Candidates must be available to work onsite in Cambridge and be able to start on short notice.
