Financial Analyst II

Main Purpose and Function

The Financial Analyst is an integral member to the FIFA World Cup 26 Vancouver™ (FWC26) Financial Planning & Analysis team and reports to the FWC26 FP&A Manager. The main functions of this role are to:

• Provide leadership in FWC26 budgeting, reporting, and forecasting processes.
• Evaluate and prepare FWC26 financial plans and business cases, formulate financial strategies and influence high profile and high impact business decisions.
• Provide strategic decision support and make recommendations that may have an impact on financial and operational areas supporting the FWC26.
• Manage IT and BI reporting projects to support strategic analysis capabilities and process efficiency in the FP&A organization.

Specific Duties/Responsibilities

Financial Planning and Analysis Process Leadership:

• Provide leadership in FWC26 budgeting, reporting, and forecasting processes.
• Communicate budgeting processes to FP&A and City staff; champion budget and reporting process excellence throughout the organization.
• Build effective relationships with FP&A counterparts to proactively understand emerging issues.
• Evaluate and prepare FWC26 financial plans and business cases, formulate financial strategies and influence high profile and high impact business decisions.

Strategic Decision Support

• Analyze and succinctly explain the key business issues impacting FWC26 service delivery and financial performance.
• Support Senior Executive by evaluating FWC26 financial plans and results to generate actionable insight:
  • Identify guiding principles and assumptions
  • Develop and/or review financial and operational models to analyze options
  • Assess alternatives
  • Clearly communicate recommendations
  • Create presentation slides
  • Write and edit council reports 
• Evaluate financial implications for major corporate decisions, including business cases, metrics, Council reports, contracts, etc. and make recommendations that may have an impact on financial and operational areas of the City’s Business, as well as staffing workloads, working conditions, changes in positions or staffing levels.

Manage FP&A IT and BI reporting projects

• Manage the business case development and implementation of key FP&A IT and BI reporting initiatives.
• Suggest opportunities for process automation/streamlining and support integration with financial reporting, capital budgeting, and long term financial planning.
• Provides coaching to team members on use of BI tools for financial planning and analysis.
• Other duties/responsibilities as assigned

Minimum Position Requirements

Education and Experience

• Degree in Business Administration, Economics, or Finance
• Professional accounting designation or MBA
• Extensive finance-related experience

Knowledge, skills and abilities:

• Ability to work at a strategic level - perform long term planning, set goals and determine priorities, and identify potential risks and opportunities
• Financial modeling expert
• Experience with ERP and BI reporting environments
• Expert verbal and written communications skills
• Experience developing robust business proposals and gaining senior leadership buy-in
• Demonstrated ability to make sound decisions in a complex environment with shifting demands and no established precedents
• Demonstrated ability to resolve complex business problems through structured data analysis and creative thinking
• Strong business acumen with the ability to quickly and thoroughly understand business priorities
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to consistently produce accurate, high quality reports and analysis
• Experience building relationships and the proven ability to influence all levels of the organization
• Advanced word processing skills using Microsoft Office Suite (Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook)

Where operationally appropriate and subject to change, the City of Vancouver has a Flexible Work Program. This program allows staff to work a hybrid work week from locations that are a daily commutable distance from their work at a City worksite.  At this time this position is eligible to be part of the Flexible Work Program.

Business Unit/Department: Finance & Supply Chain Mgmt (1150) 

Affiliation: Exempt 

Employment Type: Temporary Full Time 

Position Start Date: October 2025

Position End Date: September 2026 

Salary Information: Pay Grade RNG-091: $111139 to $138924 per annum

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