Senior Manager, Financial Compliance & Performance - Remote

The role is a key contributor within the Business Intelligence and Analytics team under the umbrella of the Finance department, where new business ideas and partnerships are incubated and scaled. We are looking for a Senior Manager, Financial Compliance & Performance Optimization whose focus areas include providing visibility and insights for recycling-related insights, development of tools, and optimization primarily through Business Intelligence tools like AWS Redshift, Power BI, SQL/Python, ML, and AI. This will involve the creation and management of data models, the development of formal processes, and the support of other tools to optimize business operations. This role will be involved in strategic projects and work closely with business stakeholders, using data to identify and translate business needs and opportunities into actionable initiatives. The candidate will report directly to the Director, Financial Compliance & Performance Optimization.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Champion a team by leading them through a transition and provide technical and business support
• Understand, assess and automate existing manual operational processes and present back on time savings gained through modernization of business operations
• Translate producer, supply chain and other internal/external data into analytical projects (to include refining the models and asking the ‘right questions’)
• Use and analyze data from multiple data warehouses and present statistically strong analysis to a wide range of business stakeholders
• Proactively identify opportunities within each program to provide additional insights for the wider business
• Drive new analytical initiatives and projects aimed at improving organizational efficiency and shaping a circular economy
• Identify, support, and lead projects aimed at scaling up the way the recycling organization leverages on data, insights, and intelligence.
• Design champion / challenger strategies that lead to ongoing learning and improvement

QUALIFICATIONS

Education
• Bachelor’s degree ideally in a business or quantitative subject (e.g. computer science, mathematics, engineering, science, economics, or finance)

Experience
• 5+ years of progressive expertise as a BI Analyst in analytics/insights/strategy
• Minimum of 5 years of analyst team leadership and support experience
• Direct experience with BI & analytics tools (Python, SQL, Amazon RedShift or PowerBI)
• Strong experience in finding data insights and provide business recommendations to the business.
• CPA or in the process of obtaining one

Knowledge/Competencies/Skills
• Extensive experience in building dashboards and strong ability to solve business problems using data
• Previous experience in implementing FP&A software
• Good stakeholder management experience. Comfortable presenting to senior leadership and C-suite
• Good understanding of statistical modelling knowledge or any machine learning technique knowledge is a plus (regression, logistic regression, random forest, etc.)
• A hacker’s mindset – the ability to build simple but clever and elegant solutions to opportunities while using creative problem-solving automation, programming, and prototyping.
• Excellent communicator with superior written, verbal, presentation, storytelling and interpersonal communication skills
• Data driven in insight generation, decision making and performance measurement with a full data-insights lifecycle mindset and experience.
• Extreme comfort in ambiguous, demanding environment
• Ability to multi-task, prioritize and coordinate resources

Preferable
• Experience with recycling is an asset.
• Knowledge of machine learning is an asset.
• Automation experience is an asset.
• Agile and sprint development experience is an asset.
• Master’s degree in mathematics, Analytics, Statistics is an asset

WORKING CONDITIONS
• All CM employees work 40 hours per week, remotely from a home office environment.

ABOUT CIRCULAR MATERIALS

Circular Materials is a national producer-led not for profit organization that supports producers in meeting their obligations under extended producer responsibility regulations across Canada. We are committed to building efficient and effective recycling systems to minimize waste, and ensure materials are reused again and again. Through the support of our founders and member producers, Circular Materials is implementing a national harmonized approach focused on improving recovery rates, meeting the needs and expectations of consumers, and protecting the natural environment.

Circular Materials is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessible Canada Act, 201+, and all applicable provincial accessibility standards, accommodation will be provided by Circular Materials throughout the recruitment, selection and/or assessment process to applicants with disabilities, upon request by emailing to humanresources@circularmaterials.ca. This email is only used for accommodation requests.

For more information visit: http://www.circularmaterials.ca

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