Hughes Collective is pleased to present an exciting opportunity on behalf of our client.
Title:Senior Financial Analyst
Location: Saskatoon, SK
Reporting to:Manager, Operations Controlling
Our Client
Our client is a large, well-established mining organization with operations in Saskatchewan. As the business continues to evolve, so do the systems, processes, and financial disciplines that support it. Teams across the organization continue to refine systems, strengthen processes, and improve the quality of information that supports operational and financial decision-making.
The scale of the organization creates broad exposure across the business, bringing together operational, technical, and corporate teams to solve problems, share knowledge, and continually improve how work gets done. Employees have the opportunity to contribute to that progress while expanding their understanding of the business and the role finance plays in supporting it.
The Opportunity
Financial planning is most effective when someone is able to bring together information, assumptions, and priorities from across an organization long before the numbers are finalized. This opportunity provides exposure to nearly every area of the organization, requiring someone who is equally comfortable analyzing financial information, coordinating planning activities across multiple departments, and helping operational leaders understand the financial implications of the decisions they make every day.
As the finance function continues to evolve, this role offers the opportunity to strengthen planning processes, refine reporting, and introduce efficiencies that improve how financial information is developed and shared across the organization. It combines the analytical depth of financial planning with the broader perspective of operational finance, creating an environment where curiosity, initiative, and practical problem-solving are valued as highly as technical expertise.
Key Responsibilities
As Senior Financial Analyst, you will work collaboratively and are responsible for:
1. Financial Planning & Forecasting
- Lead the annual budgeting, forecasting, and long-term planning processes while coordinating timelines, deliverables, and submissions across multiple departments.
- Work closely with operational leaders to develop planning assumptions, challenge financial inputs, and improve the quality, consistency, and accuracy of forecasts.
- Consolidate departmental submissions into comprehensive financial plans while validating assumptions, resolving inconsistencies, and ensuring reporting packages are complete and well supported.
- Own the coordination and delivery of financial planning submissions, ensuring reconciliations, supporting commentary, and reporting packages are completed accurately and submitted within international corporate reporting deadlines.
- Maintain detailed long-term financial models used to support impairment analysis and the economic evaluation of expansion initiatives.
- Coordinate planning activities across the business, balancing competing priorities and bringing structure to complex, cross-functional processes.
2. Financial Reporting & Business Analysis
- Prepare and maintain consistent monthly financial reporting packages, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting that provide internal stakeholders with clear insight into financial performance.
- Analyze results against budget, forecast, prior year, and plan while identifying key business drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Perform detailed cost analysis to understand key cost drivers, identify trends, and develop insights that support cost optimization and informed decision-making.
- Apply analytical and critical thinking to identify trends, derive new insights, and support cost optimization opportunities.
- Maintain long-range financial models and support strategic planning through thoughtful financial analysis and recommendations.
- Provide financial insights that support operational and strategic decision-making across the organization.
3. Operational Finance & Stakeholder Collaboration
- Partner with leaders across finance and operations to strengthen financial understanding, improve budgeting accuracy, and support informed decision-making.
- Support workforce planning, labour forecasting, overhead controlling, and departmental financial performance.
- Evaluate cost drivers, identify opportunities to improve efficiency, and contribute practical recommendations that support organizational objectives.
- Facilitate discussions around cost optimization opportunities and help stakeholders understand the financial implications of operational decisions.
- Build collaborative relationships across departments while helping leaders strengthen financial understanding and planning capability.
4. Process Improvement
- Own the financial planning and reporting processes associated with budgeting, forecasting, long-term planning, and monthly reporting.
- Develop, maintain, and improve standard operating procedures, planning tools, reporting templates, and supporting documentation.
- Identify opportunities to improve finance processes, reporting, and planning activities to create greater consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Support reporting automation and process enhancements using available technology and analytical tools.
- Contribute ideas that simplify recurring work, improve the quality of financial information, and strengthen the overall finance function.
Qualifications
The Essentials (Hard Skills):
- CPA designation is strongly preferred.
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, Business, or a related discipline.
- Progressive experience leading financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, management reporting, and business partnering within a complex organization.
- Demonstrated success coordinating planning cycles involving multiple departments and competing priorities.
- Strong accounting foundation with the ability to connect operational activity to financial outcomes.
- Advanced financial modelling and Microsoft Excel capabilities.
- Experience preparing executive-level financial reporting and presenting financial insights to business leaders.
- SAP experience is considered an asset, while exposure to Power BI, Power Query, reporting automation, or other analytical tools would be advantageous.
The Intangibles (Soft Skills):
- Able to see both the big picture and the details, knowing when each perspective is required.
- Enjoys working with highly detailed financial information and recognizes that accuracy is fundamental to sound planning, reporting, and decision-making.
- Brings structure to work involving multiple stakeholders, competing deadlines, and evolving priorities.
- Comfortable asking thoughtful questions, challenging assumptions, and encouraging productive discussion.
- Demonstrates sound judgment and remains composed when priorities shift.
- Builds credibility through strong communication and the ability to work effectively with both finance and operational leaders.
- Looks beyond the numbers to understand what is driving business performance and where opportunities exist.
- Enjoys improving processes, simplifying complex work, and creating greater consistency across the finance function.
- Self-directed, curious, and motivated by learning new parts of the business.
What Our Client Offers
- Competitive Total Rewards – Receive a competitive salary, annual bonus opportunity, employer-paid health and dental benefits, a defined pension plan with employer contributions beginning immediately, disability coverage, life insurance, and a flexible wellness spending account.
- Work-Life Balance – This a team that values flexibility, understands life outside of work, and supports a hybrid work environment with the ability to work remotely on Fridays and when circumstances require it.
- Continuous Learning & Career Growth – Build your expertise across financial planning, forecasting, corporate reporting, process improvement, and operational finance while creating opportunities for future career progression within the organization.
- Collaborative Finance Team – Work alongside experienced finance professionals while contributing to planning, reporting, and process improvements that support the continued evolution of the finance function.
About the Collective
At Hughes Collective, we don’t just recruit, we revolutionize how talent meets opportunity. We’re not in the business of filling roles; we’re in the business of transforming careers and powering businesses with bold, game-changing hires.
For candidates, this isn’t just about your next job, it’s about uncovering your passions, amplifying your strengths, and unlocking your potential. We’re here to connect you to a career that excites, inspires, and fuels your future.
This isn’t recruitment as usual, this is Hughes Collective. Bold. Authentic. Unapologetically different. Your next move starts here.
Work Location: In person
