Financial Analyst, FP&A
Centricity Research Canada
Biotechnology Research · 201-500 employees
About the role
The Financial Analyst will support budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis while serving as a finance partner to operational and site leaders. Responsibilities include building financial models, automating recurring reporting, and developing dashboards to provide actionable insights.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or Economics and relevant experience in FP&A or corporate finance. Strong Excel skills and a solid understanding of core accounting principles are required, with preference given to those with a CPA designation.
Benefits
Full description
About the Role
We're looking for a Financial Analyst, FP&A to support budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis across corporate and site-level cost centers. This remote Canada role will focus on recurring reporting, variance analysis, cash-flow management, and rolling forecasts while helping strengthen our growing FP&A function.
Over time, you'll grow into a trusted finance partner to operational, clinical, and site leaders. You'll help maintain shared models, automate recurring reporting, and create useful dashboards. This role is a great fit for someone analytical, curious, adaptable, and eager to learn and collaborate.
What You’ll Do
- Budgeting & Forecasting: Support the annual budgeting process and periodic re-forecasts, build and maintain rolling forecasts, and track variances to flag risks and opportunities early.
- Financial Modeling: Build and continuously improve financial models supporting site performance, study/trial economics, and new business cases, and develop KPI and unit-economics tracking (cost per site, trial margin, revenue per therapeutic area).
- Business Partnership: Serve as a trusted finance partner to operational, clinical, and site leaders, preparing monthly and quarterly business reviews with variance commentary and recommendations.
- Dashboards & Reporting: Build dashboards and reporting packages in Excel, Power BI, or similar tools that give stakeholders self-service visibility into their numbers.
- Team Collaboration: Work closely with other FP&A analysts on the shared financial model, helping maintain data integrity and building repeatable analytics processes rather than one-off analyses.
- FP&A Function Buildout: Help establish core recurring tasks and best practices as the function matures, including resource optimization analysis and integrated P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow modeling.
You Might Be a Great Fit If You:
- Have a Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or a related field is preferred; equivalent education or relevant experience will also be considered.
- Bring relevant experience or demonstrated capability in FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, or a similarly analytical role. Early-career through experienced candidates are welcome.
- Have strong Excel skills for your career stage, including lookups, pivot tables, SUMIFS, and sensitivity or scenario modeling, along with sound financial-modeling fundamentals.
- Are curious, coachable, and comfortable learning new financial systems and tools, with an interest in automating or streamlining manual processes.
- Have a solid grasp of core accounting and finance principles (P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, unit economics).
- Communicate financial information clearly to non-finance audiences and build strong, collaborative working relationships.
- Are proactive, adaptable, and detail-oriented, with the ability to manage multiple deadlines and contribute wherever help is needed.
- Experience in healthcare, life sciences, biotech, pharma, or a clinical research organization (CRO/IRO/site network) is a plus, not a requirement.
- Familiarity with planning or BI tools such as Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, NetSuite Planning and Budgeting, Power BI, or Tableau is an asset.
- Exposure to ERP systems such as NetSuite, Sage Intacct, or Microsoft Dynamics, or working knowledge of SQL, is an asset.
- A CPA designation, or active pursuit of one, is preferred but not required.
Why Centricity Research?
Our Mission
We connect people to scientific advancements through groundbreaking research within a deeply human experience.
Our Core Values
- Quality: We aim for excellence and integrity in everything we do - because lives depend on it.
- Care: We show up for each other, our customers, and our mission - always going the extra mile.
- Be the Change You Seek: We're adaptable, forward-thinking, and constantly improving - for the betterment of all.
- One Team: We collaborate, support one another, and succeed together.
- Grow for Good: We grow with purpose - to expand access to research and improve global health.
- Own It: We take initiative, deliver results, and follow through - with passion and accountability.
Benefits
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance
- Enhanced EAP – mental health support
- Flexible PTO + paid holidays
- Continuing education reimbursement
- 401(k) / RRSP with company match and immediate vesting
Ready to Apply?
We’d love to hear from you – apply now!
We’re an equal opportunity employer committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and will provide accommodations during the hiring process upon request.
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