Role Purpose
The Senior Financial Analyst supports financial planning, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for Canadian operations, with a focus on consolidated management reporting, capital expenditures, and Shared Services. This hands-on role analyzes complex financial data, performs consolidations and reconciliations, and delivers accurate, decision-ready reporting. The role also supports Finance modernization through expanded Power BI reporting and the implementation of a new budgeting and forecasting platform.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting, Consolidation & Ad Hoc Analysis
- Prepare and present monthly consolidated financial and operational reporting, including business performance, KPIs, budget-to-actual results, forecasts, and variance analysis for executive and regional leadership.
- Consolidate, reconcile, and validate financial and operational data from multiple sources, delivering accurate reporting and insights to support business decisions.
- Maintain budget and forecast models, support month-end reviews, and investigate financial variances, discrepancies, and reclassification requirements.
Capital Expenditure Reporting
- Manage capital reporting and project data, including budget, forecast, spend, and variance analysis, while maintaining data integrity through consolidation, reconciliation, and collaboration with key stakeholders.
Shared Services Financial Planning & Analysis
- Partner with Shared Services leaders to manage budgets and forecasts, analyze financial performance, investigate variances, and provide insights, recommendations, and risk/opportunity analysis to support decision-making.
Reporting Automation & Planning Systems
- Support reporting and planning system enhancements, including Power BI reporting, budgeting and forecasting tools, data validation, process design, testing, and continuous improvement initiatives.
Knowledge & Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Accounting or Finance.
- CPA, CFA and/or MBA qualification an asset.
- Minimum of 3-4 years of post-designation experience in financial reporting and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting and variance reporting.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency is essential, including complex formulas, lookups, PivotTables, large dataset manipulation, manual consolidation, reconciliations and robust ad hoc analysis.
- Strong data management skills: able to extract, clean, organize, validate and interpret high volumes of information, resolve inconsistencies and turn complex data into accurate, accessible reporting.
- Solid financial and business acumen, including financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling and variance analysis.
- Hands-on experience with Power BI required, including report/dashboard development, data transformation and validation. Knowledge of Power Query and DAX is an asset.
- Experience improving or automating financial reporting and planning processes; exposure to budgeting system implementation, Oracle EPBCS or comparable planning platforms is an asset.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain financial results to non-finance stakeholders and build effective relationships with business leaders.
- Detail-oriented and resourceful; comfortable working independently in a high-volume, partly manual reporting environment while developing better long-term processes.
- Familiarity with port and terminal operations is valuable but not required.
- Must be fluent in English.
- Previous Canadian work experience or experience working directly with Canadian industries.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Accounting, or Finance
- CPA, CFA, and/or MBA qualification
- 3–4 years of post-designation experience in financial reporting and analysis, including budgeting, forecasting, and variance reporting
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency, including complex formulas, lookups, PivotTables, large dataset manipulation, manual consolidation, reconciliations, and ad hoc analysis
- Strong data management skills, including extracting, cleaning, organizing, validating, and interpreting high volumes of information
- Financial and business acumen covering financial statements, management reporting, budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and variance analysis
- Hands-on Power BI experience, including report and dashboard development, data transformation, and validation
- Power Query and DAX knowledge
- Experience improving or automating financial reporting and planning processes
- Exposure to budgeting system implementation, Oracle EPBCS, or comparable planning platforms
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to work independently in a high-volume reporting environment
- Familiarity with port and terminal operations
- Fluency in English
- Previous Canadian work experience or experience working directly with Canadian industries
DP World Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about DP World and has not been reviewed or approved by DP World.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Fair & Transparent Compensation: Pay is considered competitive in many contexts, with strong salary perceptions in several regions. Feedback suggests compensation is sometimes viewed as equitable, with salary practices described as compliant and fair.
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Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits — Wellbeing & Lifestyle Benefits: Wellness initiatives, flexible working hours, and practical supports like reimbursements for mobile, home internet, and home‑office equipment are emphasized. Feedback suggests these benefits contribute meaningfully to everyday work‑life needs.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare Strength: Health coverage is described as comprehensive in some locations, including medical emergency coverage and life insurance. A broader emphasis on health, safety, and wellbeing programs reinforces this support.
DP World Insights
What We Do
Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally. With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 108,000 employees, spanning 74 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future. We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses – Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades. What’s more, we’re reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door. We make trade flow, to change what’s possible for everyone.
