Sr. Analyst – Finance Operations & Project Management

About This Role

Who We Are: 

• CAE Vision: Our vision is to be the worldwide partner of choice in defense and security, and civil aviation by revolutionizing our customers’ training and critical operations with digitally immersive solutions to elevate safety, efficiency and readiness. 

• CAE Defense & Security Mission: CAE's Defense and Security business unit focuses on helping prepare military customers to develop and maintain the highest levels of mission readiness. 

• CAE Values: Empowerment, Innovation, Excellence, Integrity and OneCAE make us who we are and we strive to make a difference in the world while helping each other succeed. 

What We Have to Offer: 

• Comprehensive and competitive benefits package and flexibility that promotes work-life balance 

• A work environment where all employees are valued, respected and safe 

• Freedom to succeed by enabling team members to deliver, take initiatives and make decisions 

• Recognition, professional development, advancement and having fun! 

Summary  

The Sr. Analyst, Finance Operations & Project Management will work to track, status, and manage initiatives within Finance and between Finance and other organizations to deliver results. This candidate will be responsible for tracking and providing results on financial and operational strategies to ensure the achievement of the business plans and objectives.  This role includes project activities across both USA and International and will have frequent interactions with defense executives based on the nature of the projects.  Limited travel is expected. 

Essential Duties and Responsibilities  

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.  

• Leverage an agile and innovative mindset to lead cross-functional projects to help scale and mature the financial organization. 

• Evaluate and establish best practices and procedures to drive operational excellence.  

• Help Identify knowledge gaps and training needs for individuals and groups and provide guidance and help to close gaps. 

• Identify, evaluate, and resolve complex business challenges in a collaborative manner through cross-functional business teams. 

• Create a culture of excellence and high performance; drives the finance team to excel at delivering on key commitments. 

• Work with data teams to track and communicate results on key metrics used to drive business (OKRs) 

• Work key process mapping to create consistency amongst teams in similar organizations 

Qualifications and Education Requirements  

• A minimum of 5 years of work experience on a progressive career growth path, with much of that time in a financial management position. 

• Experience in rapid growth technology markets, with emphasis on the U.S. defense industry, both domestic and international.   

• Bachelor’s degree in