Reporting to the Director, FP&A, the Lead Analyst, Corporate FPA plays a critical enterprise-level role in shaping the company's consolidated financial outlook. This position operates at the center of enterprise financial coordination across all commodities and corporate service functions. This role synthesizes cross-commodity and corporate services financial information into a cohesive enterprise forecast and executive-ready narrative. The Director relies on this individual as a highly independent analytical partner cabable of complex modeling, challenging assumptions, and elevating the rigor of enterprise planning and reporting. This is a high-visibility role with exposure to leadership.
Accountabilities
- Drive the consolidation and critical evaluation of monthly and quarterly forecasts across all commodity and corporate service FP&A teams.
- Assess financial drivers, trends, and cross-commodity/corporate service performance dynamics.
- Independently challenge assumptions and identify key risks, sensitivities, and opportunities.
- Synthesize complex cross-FP&A inputs into a structured, executive-ready financial narrative supported by clear visuals and decision frameworks.
- Play a central role in managing the annual budgeting and multi-year planning processes.
- Coordinate enterprise timelines and version control across stakeholders.
- Align planning assumptions across FP&A, Regulatory, Treasury, and Tax.
- Translate diverse inputs into an integrated enterprise narrative.
- Drive the development of monthly and quarterly enterprise reporting packages.
- Analyze variances and articulate forward-looking implications.
- Support preparation of executive and Board-level materials.
- Elevate reporting from descriptive to insight-driven and decision-oriented.
- Translate complex financial data into clear, concise, and visually compelling executive presentations.
- Distill large data sets into key messages, framing financial results in a way that supports strategic decision-making.
- Anticipate executive questions and ensure materials are structured to withstand senior-level scrutiny.
- Develop and maintain robust, driver-based financial models supporting enterprise forecasting.
- Conduct scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate financial impacts of evolving assumptions.
- Strengthen modeling transparency, governance, and consistency.
- Establish best practices in analytical frameworks across Corporate FP&A.
- Serve as a central integration point across FP&A teams and corporate finance functions.
- Manage complex workstreams involving multiple stakeholders.
- Operate with a high degree of autonomy and minimal oversight.
- Proactively identify analytical gaps and recommend improvements.
Education and Experience
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related discipline.
- 5-8+ years of progressive experience in corporate finance, strategic FP&A, investment banking, equity research, transaction advisory, or other highly analytical environments.
- CPA, CFA, or MBA required.
- Prior experience in analytical roles such as corporate development, equity research, corporate finance, FP&A, and transaction services.
- Experience managing multiple initiatives in a fast-paced corporate environment.
- Strong financial modeling skills, including developing/ understanding driver-based three-statement models.
- Comfort with or willingness to learn financial systems
- Willingness to roll up sleeves and problem- solve.
- High attention to detail
- Willingness to work long hours during peak periods
- Comfort with ambiguity and an approach to problems based on first principles.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal skills.
Liberty
Ontario Canada
www.libertyutilities.com
