Project Advisor, Finance

Job title: Project Advisor, Finance

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Company: FedEx Express Canada
Job Title: Project Advisor, Finance
Job Requisition Number: RC440472
Job Family: FXE-CAN: Analyst – P
Time Type: Full Time
Worker Sub-Type: Regular
Language: English
Locations:
5985 Explorer Drive
Mississauga, Ontario L4W5K6
Canada

La sélection à ce poste requiert une entrevue. SOMMAIRE GÉNÉRAL Responsable de la conception, du développement et de la mise en oeuvre de solutions innovatrices et reproductibles en appui aux initiatives stratégiques de FedEx Canada. Avoir démontré une compétence reconnue dans l’organisation pour tout ce qui touche le développement de projets, notamment l’ identification et l’évaluation des opportunités, la conception et la réalisation d’une solution, l’évaluation quantitative et la justification des avantages, le lancement de la solution la plus réalisable et l’évaluation des mesures de succès. Collaborer étroitement et indépendamment avec les hauts dirigeants de FedEx pour développer des stratégies entraînant des revenus de transport de base et l’ excellence opérationnelle.

If we’re going to work together, let us first introduce ourselves – because we are proud of our team at FedEx Express Canada. You know us as a global transportation company – and we’ve shipped some pretty interesting things over the years like part of the ship’s hull of the Titanic, a windmill, race cars, a helicopter, the shark from Jaws and a lot of panda bears who get their own chartered airplane!

FedEx Express Canada’s Finance team is looking for a Project Advisor for Mississauga office (currently remote).

Summary
Project Advisor will be responsible for the design, development, and implementation of innovative and replicable solutions in support of strategic initiatives for the MD Controller organization, supporting the long term goals of process improvement, technology and process modernization and customer experience excellence. Demonstrate organizationally recognized competency in all areas of project development including; opportunity identification and assessment, building and designing a solution, quantification and justification of benefits, launching the most feasible solution and evaluating the metrics of success. Independently work closely with FedEx executives in developing strategies to drive operational and customer experience excellence.

Responsibilities

• Leads complex, cross-functional projects with minimal supervision. Effectively manages and oversees multiple projects within time, cost and resource constraints. Directs and influences team leads to ensure collaboration and seamless execution to produce measurable and desired outcomes. Focuses team on priorities and establishes goals.
• Accesses, assimilates and analyzes data to determine business opportunities and risks. Consistently evaluates historical performance and recommends improvements. Recognizes when new data/information calls into question existing rational/analysis and modifies structure appropriately.
• Translates abstract business problems into analytical questions and performs the appropriate analysis, defines acceptable standards of deviation and makes recommendations to alter performance. Gathers, understands and evaluates information to define its impact to the project or business unit(s); develops scenario based contingency plans; and makes recommendations. Recognizes and reacts to contributory causes of business problems.
• Develops Executive level presentations with minimal supervision. Simplifies, expands or summarizes other’s information into usable content without changing original meaning. Effectively communicates both up and down the chain of command. Facilitates

brainstorming sessions, group discussions, and stakeholder meetings. Communicates ideas, impacts and recommendations in an easy to understand and use format. * Leads project teams. Leverages existing resource network to effectively solve business problems. Solves complex problems, adapts to changing work environment and supports critical Corporate initiatives. Proactively establishes collaborative working relationships within and external to department. Establishes rapport and networks effectively. Coaches and mentors peers and project team members.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Bachelor’s Degree or Equivalent

• Business Administration
• 5 years Experience in Project Management, Business Planning, Procedures Analysis and Systems Design.
• Microsoft Word, Excel – Intermediate
• Microsoft Power Point – Advanced
• Writing queries & creating automated applications using SQL & other tools – preferred
• Demonstrated experience in reporting and analytics using SQL – preferred

Some awesome perks to working at FedEx:

• A competitive salary and incentives
• A progressive benefits programs, including health and dental coverage and pension plan
• A Career Investment Fund with up to $5k a year for programs or tuition reimbursement
• Strong Community Service programs including diverse volunteer, charity, and fundraising initiatives to give back to both local and global communities
• Discounted FedEx services, flights, hotels, entertainment and car rentals
• A fun and diverse team who voted FedEx a best employer and a great place to work (we aren’t just saying that, it’s actually true)

We don’t expect you to deliver any helicopters or pandas – but if you can deliver on this exciting job opportunity, please attach your updated resume when applying. We thank all applicants and we will contact you directly – by email, not by FedEx – if selected for an interview.

DISCLAIMER
This job description is general in nature and is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to the job. The incumbent of this position is expected to perform all other duties as assigned, must be able to complete and achieve minimum thresholds on any mandatory testing and training, must be able to operate in an PC windows environment, have the ability to successfully complete all recurrence training and maintain annual accreditations where applicable and work varying shifts based on business needs. If the incumbent resides in the province of Quebec, you must be bilingual (French and English). In addition to the usual factors used in the selection process, all candidates for positions that require driving as a core competency require a valid driver’s license (e.g. Class 5,G, or 1[AZ]) and a driving record with two or fewer violations and/or accidents in the 24 months prior to the date of application. Further, candidates will be assessed through careful consideration of: 1) their current driver’s abstract; 2) their performance during application interviews; and 3) their performance on any driver competency assessments administered

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