Manager, Finance Analytics

You are as unique as your background experience and point of view. Here youll be encouraged empowered and challenged to be your best self. Youll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day youll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals families and communities around the world.

Job Description:

Sun Lifes Corporate Finance team is leading the journey of thinking and acting like a Digital company for the Global Finance community through a Finance Accelerator. Leveraging principles and values aligned with a Digital Enterprise (DE) organization we have created a team to accelerate Finances digital journey. Our purpose is to transform Finance through process redesign and automation establishing best practices and developing common tool platforms across the organization by applying data and analytics.

This role provides opportunities to further advance your skills and career in a great working environment while taking on new and exciting challenges and adopting the DE way of working with the first ever Accelerator in Finance. We are seeking a highly motivated individual with a strong finance background a genuine interest in process improvement and a passion to deliver finance solutions to our business partners and clients. Designing and delivering innovative and evolutionary reporting solutions provides the candidate with great opportunities in expanding their knowledge and network across functions and teams within the company while helping to shape the future of Finance processes.

What will you do

• Collaborate with an agile cross functional team of Finance and IT professionals and stakeholders to identify opportunities create requirements and turn vision into value-added outcomes

• Manage decisions in design choices on how we will intake transform and use data to deliver meaningful business value

• Leverage data expertise to support initiatives through scoping implementation impact analysis and ongoing reporting

• Lead the analysis and validation of financial and analytic results and testing effort for new reporting and analytic developments to ensure solutions are delivered with the highest quality

• Effective and timely communications with internal clients including engagement status solutioning options presentation of demo recommendations and outcomes

• Provide an active role in mitigating impediments impacting successful team completion of Release Goals

• Provide backlog management and elaboration of user stories

• Responsible for identifying and tracking benefits of opportunities in our pipeline and delivered solutions to demonstrate value to our stakeholders

• Design and develop streamlined and value-added solutions leveraging technology (e.g. Excel Tableau and SQL) that results in process optimization and/or efficiency

• Keep abreast with Agile best practices and new trends

What do you need to succeed

• Professional Accounting designation or relevant degree with 3-5 years of related industry experience

• Strong Microsoft office skills

• Knowledge of Hyperion SAP Tableau and SQL is advantageous

• Effective written and verbal communication skills

• Ability to organize prioritize and make decisions that require innovative thinking

• Knowledge of Lean Agile process and principles (Kanban Process design and Value optimization)

• Sound analytical and problem-solving skills

• Creative thinker with a vision and desire to learn new skills

• Takes initiative and has strong attention to detail

Whats in it for you

• The opportunity to move along a variety of career paths with amazing networking potential

• Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family

• Were committed to creating an inclusive and respectful environment. Our goal is to make sure all our employees have the chance to live up to their full potential

• Were honoured to be recognized as a 2025 Best Workplaces in Ontario by Great Place to Work Canada

• We are thrilled to be recognized by Excellence Canada with their top-level certification the Canada Order of Excellence for Mental Health at Work for prioritizing employee well-being fostering a positive work culture and achieving excellence in mental health

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The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other addition to Base Pay eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.

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We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business our Clients and you! Several work options are available and can be discussed throughout the selection process depending on the role requirements and individual needs.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing screening interview scheduling.

We thank all applicants for showing an interest in this position. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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