Financial Management and Process Automation Specialist

If you have experience in financial management, IT process optimization, or procurement operations, have worked in the aerospace or enterprise technology fields, and want to evolve and develop new skills?

This position is for you!

Your role as a Financial Management and Process Automation Specialist will be to manage recurring costs (OpEx), oversee financial forecasts and P2P execution, automate workflows using AI tools (e.g. Google Gemini, Power Automate), and ensure period-end financial closes for digital domains.

• Expected start date: To be determined

• Full-time job

• Work mode: Hybrid (occasional travel < 5% in Canada and abroad)

• Bilingualism: English required, French strongly preferred

Benefits and perks

• Sick leave days to ensure your well-being.

• Comprehensive group insurance program.

• Health, wellness and development program.

• Competitive salary.

• Career development and professional growth opportunities.

• Stimulating work environment with major projects in the aeronautics, ground transportation and defense sectors.

Responsibilities

Management of recurring costs ("Run") and financial forecasts

• Run rate and OpEx monitoring: Ensure real-time visibility of all recurring operational expenses (SaaS subscriptions, cloud infrastructure, maintenance contracts, subcontracting).

• Subscription lifecycle management: Support tracking of software license pools, renewal schedules, and proactively generate purchase orders (POs) and purchase requisition memos (PR Memos).

• Live commitment dashboards: Maintain automated financial dashboards tracking actual billed expenses, open PO commitments, and the pending PR pipeline.

• Financial forecasting: Collaborate with product managers to map planning roadmaps into rolling 3- and 12-month cost forecasts.

• Variance reporting: Provide monthly narrative reports to management explaining budget-to-actual variances and capacity trends.

Product Owner Enablement and P2P Execution

• Concierge desk for requests: Collaborate with Product Owners to gather technical prerequisites, draft purchase requests (PR/PR Memos) and route them for rapid approval.

• PO facilitation and tracking: Track purchase orders through enterprise workflows and liaise with internal teams.

• Goods Receipt (GR) & AP: Invite Product Owners to verify deliverables, perform goods receipts in ERP systems (SAP/Coupa) and resolve invoice holds or accounts payable errors.

AI Automation, Process Engineering and Coaching

• AI task automation: Leverage tools like Google Gemini, Power Automate, Copilot, and OCR to automate data extraction, PR/PO reconciliation, and status tracking.

• Process Engineering (BPE): Continuously analyze and redesign procurement workflows by replacing manual tasks with automated or one-click solutions.

• Predictive Insights & Governance: Use AI-assisted data modeling to flag anomalous spending, predict overruns, and coach Product Owners on streamlined financial workflows within an Agile framework (SAFe).

Financial Close, Accruals and Cost Optimization

• Financial close execution: Lead closing activities (month/quarter/year-end), subcontractor time tracking, accruals, prepayments, and internal fund transfers.

• AP error resolution: Audit invoice allocations and correct miscoded cost centers.

• Intercompany SLAs & "Go-Get" Optimization: Update internal service level agreements (SLAs), audit recurring software line items and unbilled balances to achieve cost reduction targets.

Skills and qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, business administration, data analysis, or a related discipline.

• Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in financial operations, P2P coordination, or business operations in an aerospace, enterprise technology, or manufacturing environment.

• AI & Automation: Hands-on experience using AI productivity tools (Google Gemini, Copilot, Power Automate) and mastery of process engineering (Lean / Six Sigma principles desirable).

• Financial Analysis & Modeling: Expertise in OpEx/run cost management, proficiency in BI tools (Power BI, Tableau), and advanced modeling in Google Sheets/Excel.

• Agile Context: Strong understanding of Agile / SAFe model mechanics (Solution Trains, ARTs, PI cycles).

• ERP & Tools: Strong practical command of enterprise ERPs (SAP S/4HANA), procurement solutions (Coupa), and management/ticketing platforms (Jira, ServiceNow).

• Accounting: Solid understanding of financial closes, accruals, prepayments, timesheet management, and intercompany transfers.

• Languages: Proficiency in English required, French strongly preferred (bilingualism).

Embark on an exciting adventure with AAA Canada, where every application paves the way for new possibilities.

Feel free to send your resume directly to houda.benarab@aaa-canada.ca

AAA Canada subscribes to the principle of employment equity and encourages women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and members of visible minorities to submit their applications.