Financial Analyst

Shape Your World

At Alcoa, you will become an essential part of our purpose: to turn raw potential into real progress. The way we see it, every Alcoan is a work-shaper, team-shaper, idea-shaper & world-shaper.

Senior Financial Analyst

Join a team where your expertise directly contributes to the financial and operational performance of a strategic plant. Based within the Baie-Comeau division, this role allows you to act as a true business partner to managers by transforming financial data into key information to guide decisions and support the achievement of operational objectives.

About the Role

Reporting to the Finance Manager, you will play a central role in tracking and analyzing the financial performance of a plant sector. You will support budgeting processes, end-of-month activities, project management, and the maintenance of internal controls. In close collaboration with operational teams and corporate partners, you will provide relevant financial analyses to support decision-making and optimize organizational results. The position is based at the Baie-Comeau division and is primarily remote, with occasional on-site presence required for physical inventories or audit activities.

Your Main Responsibilities

• Prepare budgets, financial forecasts, management reports, and variance analyses to support sector financial performance.
• Contribute to the monthly closing process by ensuring the accuracy of financial data and adherence to deadlines.
• Act as a business partner to managers by interpreting financial results, identifying trends, and formulating recommendations.
• Track the project portfolio by performing profitability analyses, monitoring performance indicators, and supporting decision-making.
• Perform account reconciliations, inventory tracking, and participate in physical inventories and audit activities as required.
• Maintain and improve internal controls, support the optimization of management systems, and contribute to compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley Act requirements.

What You Bring to the Role

• Bachelor's degree in accounting sciences or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience allowing you to thrive in a complex financial environment.
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience in an accounting or finance role, ideally in a manufacturing or industrial context.
• CPA designation, considered an asset.
• Excellent proficiency in Excel and good knowledge of Microsoft Office suite; experience with analytical tools such as Power BI or Oracle is an asset.
• Excellent communication skills in French and functional English to collaborate with corporate teams located outside Quebec.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team, manage multiple priorities simultaneously, maintain rigorous controls, and adopt a precision, compliance, and safe work practices-oriented approach.
• *In this posting, the masculine is used to lighten the text.*

Alcoa is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and an affirmative action employer. It is also part of the global inclusion groups (AWARE, AWN, EAGLE, ABLE).

Only those selected through the process will be contacted.

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About the Location

Alcoa's aluminum smelter in Baie-Comeau is the economic engine of Baie-Comeau and the Manicouagan region. The significant investments made in recent years have allowed the plant to look to the future with optimism. Working for Alcoa in Baie-Comeau means giving yourself the means to have an exciting and stimulating career, in an exceptional living environment where all services are accessible. Between the shores of the St. Lawrence and hundreds of lakes, rivers and trails, Baie-Comeau is an outdoor paradise and the ideal place to raise a family.

We are values led, vision driven and united by our purpose of transforming raw potential into real progress. Our commitments to Inclusion, Diversity & Equity include providing trusting workplaces that are safe, respectful and inclusive of all individuals, free from discrimination, bullying and harassment and that our workplaces reflect the diversity of the communities in which we operate.

This is a place where you are empowered to do your best work, be your authentic self, and feel a true sense of belonging. Come join us and shape your career!

Your work. Your world. Shape them for the better.