AVSS is a Canadian aerospace company and the global leader in guided and unguided parachute recovery systems for drones. Our technologies are deployed worldwide by commercial operators, defense organizations, and government agencies to improve safety, survivability, and operational reliability of drones.
AVSS is expanding its product offerings with new products and end-to-end solutions for dual-use applications. These new products and end-to-end solutions include energetic delivery systems for avalanche mitigation, motors for small drones, and threat detection systems for ground robots.
AVSS products are designed, tested, and manufactured to meet the rigorous performance, quality, and reliability standards required for both commercial and military applications. The company works closely with enterprise customers, defense partners, and regulatory bodies to ensure its systems integrate seamlessly into complex operational environments.
At AVSS, you will start with four-weeks of paid vacation and a subsidized $10 lunch program (if you choose). After 6 months, you will also be able to sign up for the health benefits.
Position Overview
We are seeking a highly analytical Financial Analyst to support financial planning, operational decision-making, and business analysis across the organization.
Working closely with the executive team and operational leaders, the Financial Analyst will develop financial models, analyze product and project economics, evaluate costs and profitability, and help management better understand the financial impact of business decisions.
This is a hands-on analytical role for someone who enjoys digging into numbers, building models from the ground up, identifying trends and inconsistencies, and turning financial and operational data into useful information for decision-making.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Modeling & Analysis
- Develop and maintain financial models to support company planning and decision-making.
- Build and maintain short- and long-term cash flow models.
- Develop scenario and sensitivity analyses to evaluate different business decisions and assumptions.
- Analyze financial and operational data to identify trends, risks, opportunities, and areas requiring further investigation.
- Build models that help management understand the financial implications of growth, hiring, capital investments, production changes, and other operational decisions.
Product Costing & Profitability
- Develop and maintain detailed product costing models.
- Work with supply chain, engineering, production, and finance to understand material, labour, overhead, and other costs.
- Analyze product margins and identify the key drivers affecting profitability.
- Evaluate the financial impact of changes in material costs, production volumes, labour requirements, pricing, and supply-chain decisions.
- Support pricing decisions by providing accurate cost and margin analysis.
Project Financial Analysis
- Analyze the financial performance and profitability of customer, government, R&D, and internal projects.
- Compare project budgets, forecasts, and actual performance.
- Identify cost overruns, margin changes, and other financial risks.
- Develop project-level reporting that provides management with visibility into project performance.
- Work with project owners to understand variances and improve future project planning and forecasting.
Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Support annual budgeting and ongoing forecasting activities.
- Maintain rolling forecasts based on current business performance and expected future activity.
- Assist leadership with revenue, expense, cash flow, headcount, and capital expenditure planning.
- Develop scenarios to evaluate different growth and investment strategies.
- Help translate operational plans into financial forecasts.
Operational Analysis
- Collaborate with executive and operational teams to develop models for production, staffing, inventory, purchasing, and capacity planning.
- Analyze operational metrics and connect them to financial performance.
- Identify opportunities to improve margins, working capital, cash flow, and operational efficiency.
- Develop dashboards, reports, and management tools that make complex financial information easier to understand and act upon.
Management Decision Support
- Prepare financial analyses and recommendations for the executive team.
- Investigate financial questions and provide clear, data-supported answers.
- Develop ad hoc models and analyses for new opportunities, contracts, investments, and strategic initiatives.
- Present findings in a clear manner to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related discipline.
- 5+ years of experience in financial analysis, FP&A, corporate finance, accounting, consulting, or a similar analytical role.
- Advanced Excel and financial-modeling skills.
- Strong understanding of financial statements, cash flow, margins, and profitability.
- Demonstrated ability to work with large or complex datasets and identify meaningful insights.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- High attention to detail and accuracy.
- Ability to communicate financial concepts clearly to non-financial stakeholders.
- Comfortable working independently and investigating problems where the answer may not be immediately obvious.
Preferred Experience
- Experience within manufacturing, aerospace, defence, technology, or another product-based organization.
- Experience with product costing and manufacturing economics.
- Experience analyzing project or contract profitability.
- Experience with ERP and accounting systems.
- Experience developing operational and capacity-planning models.
- CPA, CFA, or progress toward a relevant professional designation is considered an asset but is not required.
What Success Looks Like
Success in this role means giving management better visibility into the economics of the business. The Financial Analyst should become a trusted analytical resource for the executive team—someone who can take a business question, dig into the underlying numbers, build the appropriate model, challenge assumptions, and provide a clear financial picture that supports better decisions.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: $70,000.00-$100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Dental care
- On-site parking
- Vision care
Language:
Work Location: In person
