What are the responsibilities and job description for the Financial Analyst position at The CSL Group Inc.?
Company Overview
The CSL Group Inc. (CSL) is a world-leading provider of marine dry bulk cargo handling and delivery services with its major operating divisions, including Canada Steamship Lines, CSL Americas, CSL Australia, CSL Asia, and CSL Europe.
Through these divisions, CSL owns and operates a highly diversified fleet of specialized self-unloading vessels, off-shore transshippers, and Handysize bulk carriers, delivering more than 78 million tonnes of cargo to industrial customers annually.
CSL's history dates back to 1845 and has a strong commitment to the wellbeing of its crews and employees, promoting a corporate culture that values high ethical standards, a safe and healthy workplace, and respect for the environment.
Duties and Responsibilities
- Support and maintain budgeting and forecasting processes; develop proficiency in systems.
- Responsible for system inputs and leveraging systems to provide data-driven insights.
- Collaborate closely with commercial and scheduling teams in developing and reviewing customer pricing, from setting freight rates to voyage performance and profitability analysis to support commercial strategy.
- Support operations team in development, review, and presentation of operational budgets, variance analysis, forecasts, and spend management and optimization initiatives.
- Perform variance analysis and report on key metrics through regular reporting cycles, address follow-up questions/provide explanations.
- Maintain profitability analysis modelling (ROIC, EVA, etc.).
- Support development of presentations to management and other stakeholders, including managerial/pro-forma reporting.
- Assist with strategic planning process and scenario development.
- Work with and support Corporate resources on regional information requests.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis and prepare recommendations to support decision-making.
- Support investment/business case development, financial modeling, valuation, and sensitivity analysis.
Qualifications and Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting or similar.
- Minimum 2 years of relevant experience in analytical functions.
- Excel power user.
- Oracle, Cognos, Smartsheet, and PowerBI experience an asset.
- CPA/CFA a plus.
- Curiosity, desire, and ability to
