At Canadian Tire, we are committed to providing students with a supportive and collaborative environment that fosters knowledge sharing and offers key experiences to help them develop their capabilities through projects and objectives. We believe in setting specific and measurable goals that align with our business objectives to support learning and help students achieve their full potential. Our culture emphasizes learning from others, continuous improvement, agility, growth, and innovation, and we are invested in building a talented, diverse workforce for the future of Canada and Canadian Tire. Additionally, we are dedicated to building strong relationships with our student employees by engaging with them throughout their education and career pursuits and creating opportunities for ongoing communication and relationship building.
Our Finance team plays a key role in helping us stay competitive in the ever-changing retail environment by providing accurate, timely, high-quality financial reporting, analysis and advice to our business. With over 600 employees across a variety of programs and projects, our Finance team is helping to ensure that our leaders have right financial information to make well informed decisions to drive our business forward.
What You’ll Do
Canadian Tire’s Finance Associate Analyst (FAA) New Grad Rotational Program provides you with an opportunity to broaden your financial acumen while developing a comprehensive understanding of Canadian Tire. Depending on your rotations, you could be working on projects that involve, but are not limited to: data analytics, cost-benefit analysis, developing and maintaining performance reporting, working cross-functionally to develop financial plans and re-forecast financial reporting and analyses, or risk assessment activities. The program will allow you to gain foundational knowledge to support your career path. Over two years, new grads entering the FAA program complete two 12-month rotations all within our diverse finance department.
Rotations available in the following areas:
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Financial Planning & Analysis
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Accounting, Advisory, Reporting & Controls
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Treasury
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Internal Audit
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Business Intelligence
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Continuous Improvement
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Experimentation & Decision Support
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Financial Policy & External Reporting
What You’ll Bring
We are looking for students with expected graduation between December 2024 – April 2025 who are:
- Working towards or have recently obtained an undergraduate or graduate degree in Business, Commerce, Mathematics, Economics or Management Analytics
- Passionate for accounting, financial planning, analysis and reporting, experience working in a data-driven, analytical environment, and advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel and Access.
- Experienced in extracting and manipulating large data sets from relational databases and previous experience working in finance is considered an asset.
- Creative and courageous, with the ability to manage in an environment of change and ambiguity to help us take bold, strategic moves in this rapidly evolving retail environment
- Action oriented, and comfortable taking calculated risks to better serve our customers and business
- Outcome focused, critical thinkers with the ability to analyze and visualize, to ensure continuous improvement across our entire business
- Collaborative team players with superior influencing skills, who build relationships easily across various stakeholder groups to move initiatives forward
Please ensure your Workday candidate application includes your resume and unofficial academic transcripts. Applications close Wednesday, October 30th, 2024.
If you’re curious, ready to take on new challenges and open to doing things differently to help us evolve rapidly – then this is the place to be. #newgradprogram
Hybrid
We value flexibility. We have adopted a hybrid work model out of Toronto, Ontario whereby employees use a combination of working in office and virtually in service of outcomes. Each leader is empowered to decide what work is best achieved in person based on the unique needs of their team.