Finance Advisor - Temporary

Description

Belonging to Air Canada means belonging to a Canadian icon; Air Canada was recently named Best Airline in North America. Launch your career by joining our innovative and diverse team at the forefront of passenger air transportation.

Air Canada is seeking a highly motivated, dynamic and ambitious individual who wishes to learn and advance their career within the Company. The person in the Finance Advisor role represents the Finance function and collaborates with the team that supports the finances of Air Canada Maintenance.

Air Canada Maintenance represents one of the Company's key financial strengths.

Main responsibilities

• Provide value-added services to the stock planning business units of Air Canada Maintenance by identifying and assessing opportunities and strategies to improve profitability, internal process changes and new cost-reduction opportunities.
• Establish and manage effective working relationships with business leaders and strategic partners, and ensure adoption of solutions and changes to inventory processes and strategies.
• Manage financial transactions in our monitoring and evaluation system (TRAX): provide guidance on the accounting impact of departmental transactions and collaborate with the Finance and Audits team to report, identify and assess financial inaccuracies.
• Manage balance sheet transactions and understand cost flows. Collaborate with YWG teams, Accounts Payable, Audits and business finance agents to raise the team's awareness of essential accounting principles to support the business and enable informed financial decisions.
• Support capital budget initiatives for all Air Canada Maintenance business units. Provide timely and accurate reporting and support all related financial activities.
• Collaborate with Finance - YWG to ensure all aspects of inventory are aligned with accounting and centralized services directions.
• Lead the development and implementation of financial performance indicators to better understand cause-and-effect relationships between different costs and to ensure unit efficiency and performance.
• Lead, in collaboration with Air Canada Maintenance management, process improvement initiatives that provide financial control, improved understanding and decision-making related to inventory and other financial processes.
• Ensure service quality remains high at all times in terms of timeliness and accuracy.
• Collaborate with the Power BI team to update and improve inventory dashboards.
• Work with the Senior Manager – Finance Business Partner to document new processes or updates to Air Canada's UNIFIER program processes.
• Perform other ad hoc financial analyses and support project management.

Qualifications

• Three to five years of relevant experience.
• Undergraduate degree in business, accounting or finance is required.
• Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation or other professional designation is an asset.
• Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills to examine complex data and report findings.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with demonstrated ability to work in a team.
• Self-directed, energetic, with strong initiative and creativity.
• Ability to quickly become familiar with various financial systems.
• Proven organizational skills and ability to work under pressure and meet changing deadlines.
• Ability to build and maintain advanced financial models in Microsoft Excel; intermediate to advanced knowledge of PowerPoint and Power BI.
• Experience with Alteryx is an asset.
• Experience with supply chain in the airline industry is an asset.
• Experience with the TRAX system is an asset.
• Demonstrated punctuality and reliability to support overall team success in a fast-paced environment.

Conditions of employment

Candidates must be eligible to work in the relevant country at the time a job offer is made and are responsible for obtaining work permits, visas or other necessary authorizations. Proof of eligibility must be provided prior to the start date.

Language requirements

Where qualifications are equal, preference will be given to bilingual candidates.

Diversity and inclusion

Air Canada is firmly committed to diversity and inclusion and aims to create a healthy, accessible and rewarding workplace that values the unique contribution of our employees to the success of our business.

As an employer that ensures equal access to employment, we encourage the broadest possible range of applicants in order to build a workforce reflective of our customers and the communities where we live and serve.

Air Canada thanks all applicants for their interest; only those selected for an interview will be contacted.