Job Title: Financial Analyst

Location: Toronto, ON (Hybrid)

Estimated Duration: 6 Months

SUMMARY

The Financial Analyst supports the accuracy and completeness of restaurant sales, third-party delivery activity, and related financial reporting through reconciliations, accounting analysis, and effective issue resolution.

This role requires a solid accounting background, active progress toward a CPA designation, experience in the quick-service restaurant (QSR) industry, and strong reconciliation skills. The successful candidate must understand how financial and operational data flows between point-of-sale (POS) systems, third-party delivery platforms, reconciliation tools, and the general ledger.

The analyst supports month-end close, investigates variances, strengthens controls, and improves reporting and reconciliation processes. Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and clear communication are essential.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Accounting and Reconciliations

  • Prepare weekly and monthly reconciliations of restaurant sales and third-party delivery activity, including comparison of POS transactions, vendor settlements, bank deposits, and general ledger balances.
  • Investigate reconciling items, identify root causes, and coordinate timely resolution with internal teams and external service providers.
  • Prepare journal entries, accruals, and delivery estimates to support accurate month-end reporting and sales cutoff.
  • Analyze delivery sales, commissions, promotions, refunds, cancellations, fees, and settlement differences.
  • Maintain supporting schedules and reconciliation documentation that clearly explain balances, outstanding items, and required actions.
  • Support audit requests and SOX requirements through complete documentation and adherence to established controls.

Data Analysis and Reporting

  • Validate the completeness and accuracy of financial and operational data used in reconciliations and reporting.
  • Identify missing transactions, duplicate records, incorrect store mappings, timing differences, and other data issues affecting financial results.
  • Develop and maintain analyses and reports using Excel, Power BI, and available reporting tools.
  • Explain financial variances and trends, highlighting business implications and recommended actions.
  • Understand transaction-level data, relationships between datasets, and the impact of data transformations on reconciliation results.

Systems and Process Improvements

  • Develop a working understanding of transaction-matching rules and data interfaces between POS, delivery platforms, reconciliation systems, and the ERP.
  • Support troubleshooting of accounting system and data integration issues.
  • Participate in testing system changes, mapping updates, and reconciliation configurations.
  • Support restaurant openings, closures, acquisitions, and refranchising cutovers by validating store mappings, transaction dates, and funding cutoffs.
  • Maintain third-party delivery portal information and coordinate required updates with relevant departments.
  • Identify opportunities to automate manual work, improve controls, and reduce recurring reconciliation issues.
  • Participate in cross-functional reconciliation reviews and track issues through resolution.
  • Perform other accounting analyses and special projects as assigned.

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

None.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

  • Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, or a related discipline with substantial accounting coursework required.
  • Active enrollment in a CPA program and demonstrated progress toward the designation required.
  • Minimum of two years of relevant accounting and reconciliation experience required.
  • Experience working in the QSR industry required, with an understanding of restaurant sales, tender types, delivery platforms, and settlement processes.
  • Solid understanding of accounting principles, including journal entries, accruals, cutoff, balance sheet reconciliations, and applicable GAAP.
  • Hands-on experience investigating and resolving differences across financial systems and transaction-level datasets.
  • Experience supporting month-end close and internal controls required.
  • Experience with third-party delivery reconciliations, SAP, ReconNet, or BlackLine preferred.

TECHNICAL AND ANALYTICAL SKILLS

  • Strong Excel skills, including pivot tables, lookup functions, and analysis of large datasets.
  • Solid understanding of data structures, unique transaction identifiers, data matching, and completeness and accuracy checks.
  • Ability to trace transactions from source systems through settlement and general ledger posting.
  • Experience with Power BI, Power Query, or similar reporting and data preparation tools preferred.
  • Familiarity with SQL, relational databases, or automated data processing is an asset.

COMMUNICATION AND PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

  • Apply sound accounting judgment and draw logical conclusions supported by evidence.
  • Communicate financial and data issues clearly to accounting, operations, technology, and external partners.
  • Manage competing priorities and meet weekly and month-end deadlines.
  • Demonstrate ownership of outstanding items and follow through on corrective actions.
  • Maintain accuracy and attention to detail when working with high-volume transactions.
  • Work independently while collaborating effectively across departments.

The pay range that the employer reasonably expects to pay for this position is between ¤35.00 and ¤40.00

Our voluntary benefits offering includes medical, dental, vision and retirement benefits.

This posting is for an existing vacancy.

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