Company: Sovereign Insurance
Department: Decision Support
Employment Type: Regular Full-Time
Work Model: Hybrid
Language: This role operates in English.
Additional Information: This/these role(s) is/are currently vacant
The Opportunity:
At Sovereign Insurance, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Co-operators General Insurance Company, we believe leadership is shaped by purpose, collaboration, and meaningful contribution. When you grow, we grow — your success crowns ours.
We value diverse perspectives, bold ideas, and people who lift others up. Here, your initiative matters, and your efforts help build the resilience of the Canadian businesses and communities we serve.
That shared commitment strengthens our culture and moves us forward — together. That’s the Crown Effect.
Our national Finance team aspires to create, enhance, and protect value for our organization and its stakeholders. Our knowledgeable team educates and influences the organization to make well-informed, risk-based decisions. We think innovatively and strategically to solve business problems and strive to move our business forward with practical, integrated processes and tools that ensure organizational success.
The Financial Planning & Analysis Consultant will apply comprehensive knowledge of business performance drivers of financial risk and return to identify areas for improvement. This individual will work closely with Decision Support teams, the Enterprise Project Portfolio Office (EPPO), and the Enterprise Transformation Office (ETO) to help demonstrate the impacts of business transformation to the enterprise. This individual ensures business decisions are grounded in sound and balanced financial analysis, demonstrating an ability to deeply understand the business area. This individual will work closely with corporate business partners to support the financial analysis required for decision making and benefits realization.
How you will create impact:
- Evaluate financial condition and create complex financial models for budgets, forecasts, and multi-year plans.
- Support the development of financial business cases that incorporate an understanding of constraints and potential scenarios.
- Support the creation of benefit realization models and identification of metrics driving performance variances, working with the appropriate teams to communicate and highlight implications.
- Enhance internal partnerships to create innovative solutions to translate business roadmap into opportunities sizes.
- Understand financial implications during roadmap planning discussions.
- Work alongside EPPO to develop funding requests in line with enterprise prioritization frameworks.
- Research best practices and analyze competitive, economic, and regulatory environment to identify complex issues and advantages.
- Research appropriate financial management tools and analytic techniques that assist in achieving financial objectives.
- Recommends short-term and long-term solutions for improved performance through the delivery of effective presentations to business partners.
How you will succeed:
- You have an innovative mindset to improve operational efficiencies and ability to influence change, with a primary focus on client needs.
- You use critical thinking skills to recognize assumptions, evaluate arguments, draw conclusions and proactively propose solutions.
- You have strong communication skills to clearly convey messages and explore diverse points of view.
- You build trusting relationships and provide guidance to support the development of colleagues.
To join our team:
- University degree in Business/finance/accounting, or related discipline.
- You have 5-7 years of experience in financial planning and analysis or in a related field.
- Having or working towards professional accounting designation or appropriate professional qualifications (CA, CMA, CBV or MBA) is an asset.
- Working knowledge in strategic financial analysis.
- Proven ability to collaborate with business partners and provide financial analysis.
- Ability to influence decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to initiate, lead and manage change.
What you need to know:
- Strict confidentiality with respect to employee’s personal information and other sensitive or proprietary material.
- Detail oriented work that requires a high degree of mental concentration for extended periods of time.
- You will be subject to a Background check as a condition of employment, in the event you are the successful candidate.
- This position will operate on a hybrid work posture which will require an in-office presence of at least twice a week.
What’s in it for you?
- The opportunity to take on challenging work and contribute your expertise, creativity, and passion in meaningful ways.
- A comprehensive total rewards package, including competitive salary, bonus, paid time off, pension and benefits.
- A holistic approach to your well-being, with physical and mental health programs and flexible work options.
- The opportunity to work on an inclusive team who inspire each other to explore and achieve what’s possible.
- A company that is committed to support the social, environmental and financial well-being of the lives, families and communities we impact.
Expected salary/hourly range $72,847 - $121,411
The salary amount for the successful candidate is determined by Sovereign in its discretion and will vary depending on several criteria including but not limited to: local market conditions, geography and relevant job-related factors such as knowledge, skills, qualification, experience and education.”
Employees may also have the opportunity to participate in incentive programs and earn additional compensation tied to individual and/or business performance, or other business metrics.
