Finance Performance Analyst Intern***Stagiaire, Analyste de performance financière

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IPEX est actuellement à la recherche d’une personne motivée, passionnée et dynamique pour occuper un poste de stagiaire en analyse financière durant une période de 4 mois débutant au mois de Mai 2025.

Relevant d’un analyste sénior au sein de la fonction FP&A, la personne supportera les partenaires d’affaires – Ventes ainsi que l’équipe des ventes Nord Amérique lors de la préparation de la planification financière, des prévisions et de la budgétisation des ventes pour de multiples entités publiantes (multidevises, multi-pays), selon un calendrier serré. 

RESPONSABILITÉS CLÉS :

• Recueillir et saisir l’information recueillie dans le système budgétaire pour fins de compilation et d’analyses. 

• Effectuer différentes analyses financières.

• Aider à cerner des initiatives afin de continuellement améliorer, automatiser et adapter des outils, des processus et des méthodologies en matière de prévisions et d’établissement de rapports. 

•  Supporter les membres de la fonction FP&A dans divers mandats et analyses. 

EXIGENCES DU POSTE

Formation et certificats

»    Titulaire d’un diplôme en comptabilité (Certificat ou BAA)
»    Un minimum de 1 an d’expérience pertinente
»    Bonne connaissance de Microsoft Excel (Niveau intermédiaire)
»    Bonne connaissance de Power Bi (Atout)

Compétences et connaissances techniques :
»    Capacité à gérer le stress et à respecter les échéances
»    Très bonnes compétences en analyse et en communication
»    Esprit d’équipe et excellente approche vis-à-vis de la clientèle 
»    Habilité à manipuler les logiciels et d’apprendre de façon autodidacte

IPEX encourage la diversité et l’inclusion au travail; en tant qu’employeur, nous offrons l’égalité professionnelle.   

IPEX fait tout son possible pour répondre aux besoins d’accommodement des personnes handicapées durant tout le processus d’entrevue et, sur demande, collaborera avec les candidats qualifiés pour leur offrir des mesures d’accommodement convenables de façon à prendre en compte leurs besoins en matière d’accessibilité découlant de leur handicap. Les candidats participant à toutes les étapes du processus de sélection en vue d’un emploi à IPEX peuvent demander des mesures d’accommodement. Pour faire une demande, veuillez communiquer avec les RH à HR@ipexna.com

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IPEX is one of North America’s leading providers of advanced plastic piping systems. Our mission is to shape a better tomorrow by connecting people with water and energy.

We currently have an exciting opportunity as a Financial Performance Analyst intern. This role is based in our Ile de Soeurs, QC office and reports to the FP&A

Manager for Subsidiaries. 

Do not miss the opportunity to join a diverse group of people-centric professionals, leaders with vision and rapid problem solvers, entrepreneurs in spirit and status quo-fighters!

Job Summary

The Financial Performance Analyst intern partners with the FP&A Manager for Subsidiaries to monitor the financial performance against strategic objectives of four subsidiaries ($400M CAD sales), prepare forecast, and budget. In the process, the intern collaborates with various internal stakeholders including subsidiary Presidents, Functional Leaders, Business Partners, and the core FP&A team.

The intern will leverage existing processes/tools but will also help to develop a new generation of reporting and tools aiming to help drive performance improvements, consistent analysis, and reporting. A key component to the Intern’s mandate will consist in supporting the FP&A manager prepare the groundwork for the upcoming budget. 

Achieving success in this role will depend on the incumbent’s ability to collaborate across the organization, be self-motivated, flexible, and dynamic in dealing with ambiguity. The intern will work closely with the FP&A Manager to derive insights and communicate them to the various stakeholders. Unique to this position is exposure to performance dynamics across the P&L spectrum (Gross Sales-CEBITDA) as well as balance sheet.

Principal Responsibilities

•  Help capture, consolidate, and analyze operating and financial results for subsidiaries; including analyzing trends and drivers to explain YoY, forecast, and budget variances

• Help translate financial results and analyses into meaningful insights to support decision making 

• Support the FP&A manager in preparing performance reports; ie monthly reporting packages  and Power BI dashboards

• Participate in reviewing financial results and ad-hoc analyses with Executives

• Partake in the quarterly forecast and budget planning cycles

• Help collect, consolidate, and translate feedback from stakeholders into forecast/budget inputs

• Work with FP&A Manager to identify initiatives to improve performance, automate and scale forecasting and reporting tools, processes, and methodologies 

• Collaborate in developing, standardizing, and improving existing reporting  

• Support the immediate Manager on various analyses and mandates

Qualifications & experience

Education & Certificates

• Undergraduate/Graduate student in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, applied statistics, computer science,  or related field. 

• In progress CFA, CPA, and/or Msc/MBA designations a strong plus

Technical Skills & Experience 

• 1-3 years of relevant experience, preferably in Finance/FP&A (manufacturing industry)

• Experience in financial Planning and modelling

• Proficient in data analytics with strong focus on performance management

• Advance user of Excel; Financial modelling, Pivoting, use of Power Query, Power Pivot..

• Able to use analytical tools such as Power BI, Tableau, and/or Python

• Knowledge of Managerial Accounting and/or Finance

• Be Customer Obsessed - Developing a deep understanding of internal customers and demonstrating a commitment to exceeding their expectations

• Strong ability to ability to distil numbers into insights and drive story telling

• Collaborate & Influence - Building and maintaining effective working relationships, ensuring alignment within and across groups, and using one’s understanding of others to gain buy-in and support and achieve shared goals.

• Drive Accountability and Results - Accomplishing goals to the highest of standards and driving accountability in self and others in alignment with the values of IPEX NA. 

• Deep knowledge of driver data and definitions

• Strong business acumen and business savvy

• Self-driven and drives continuous improvement

• Bilingualism (French and English).

• Provide insightful reporting to enable effective decision making

• Strong understanding of functional requirements

• Understanding of the FPB operational model (an asset)

• Strong understanding of functional processes and how they impact performance

• Deep modelling skills

You are looking for a challenge in finance? This position is for you. This position will challenge you, but you will also be working with a very dynamic set of individuals that cares about you and your professional growth. Moreover, be part of the journey of a dynamic and growing company.

IPEX is committed to providing accommodations for people with disabilities throughout the recruitment process and, upon request, will work with qualified job applicants to provide suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability. Accommodation requests are available to candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process for IPEX jobs. To request an accommodation, please contact HR at HR@ipexna.com
 

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