Senior Financial Analyst, Digital Finance Transformation

Job title: Senior Financial Analyst, Digital Finance Transformation

Job description: You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You’ll work with dynamic colleagues – experts in their fields – who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you’ll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients – who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Sun Life’s Corporate Finance team is leading the journey of thinking and acting like a Digital company for the Global Finance community through a Finance Accelerator. Leveraging principles and values aligned with a Digital Enterprise (DE) organization, we have created a team to accelerate Finance’s digital journey. Our purpose is to transform Finance through process redesign and automation, establishing best practices, and developing common tool platforms across the organization by applying data and analytics.

This role provides opportunities to further advance your skills and career in a great working environment, while taking on new and exciting challenges and adopting the DE way of working with the first ever Accelerator in Finance. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong finance background, a genuine interest in process improvement and a passion to deliver finance solutions to our business partners and clients. Designing and delivering innovative and evolutionary reporting solutions provides the candidate with great opportunities in expanding their knowledge and network across functions and teams within the company while helping to shape the future of Finance processes.

What will you do?

Collaborate with an agile cross functional team of Finance and IT professionals and stakeholders to identify opportunities, create requirements, and turn vision into value-added outcomes

Manage decisions in design choices on how we will intake, transform and use data to deliver meaningful business value

Leverage data expertise to support initiatives through scoping, implementation, impact analysis, and ongoing reporting

Lead the analysis and validation of financial and analytic results and testing effort for new reporting and analytic developments to ensure solutions are delivered with the highest quality

Effective and timely communications with internal clients, including engagement status, solutioning options, presentation of demo, recommendations, and outcomes

Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release/Sprint Goals

Provide backlog management and elaboration of user stories

Responsible for identifying and tracking benefits of opportunities in our pipeline and delivered solutions to demonstrate value to our stakeholders

Design and develop streamlined and value-added solutions leveraging technology (e.g. Excel, Tableau and SQL) that results in process optimization and/or efficiency

Keep abreast with Agile/Scrum best practices and new trends

Preferred skills

Professional Accounting designation or relevant degree with 3-5 years of related industry experience

Strong Microsoft office skills

Knowledge of Hyperion, SAP, Tableau and SQL is advantageous

Effective written and verbal communication skills

Ability to organize, prioritize and make decisions that require innovative thinking

Knowledge of Lean Agile process and principles (Scrum, Kanban, Process design and Value optimization)

Sound analytical and problem-solving skills

Creative thinker with a vision and desire to learn new skills

Takes initiative and has strong attention to detail

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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At Sun Life we strive to create a flexible work environment where our employees are empowered to do their best work. Several flexible work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

Salary Range: 68,400/68 400 – 111,700/111 700

Job Category: Finance

Posting End Date: 20/07/2022

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