Job Description

Overview:
Are you someone with leadership and technical capabilities? Do you enjoy building relationships and working collaboratively in a team environment with both internal and external stakeholders? Are you a trusted partner and a problem solver? If you enjoy entrepreneurship and innovation, this opportunity is for you! As someone with excellent communication skills and business acumen, you will thrive in our fast-paced and agile environment.
Your opportunity
We are seeking a highly motivated and data-fluent FP&A Data Analyst to be a foundational member of our growing Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) team. Dillon's FP&A team is focused on transforming business data into strategic insights that empower our leaders to act. The ideal candidate brings strong analytical skills and a drive to improve current methodologies to help build a scalable and effective FP&A function. This role will be instrumental in implementing new processes, refining existing models, and transitioning the team's focus from data gathering to high-value analysis.
This is a full-time, hybrid position requiring a minimum of three days per week in our London office.
Responsibilities:
Reporting & Automation

• Advance & Stabilize our Reporting Suite: Execute key recurring reporting tasks to ensure business continuity, while simultaneously identifying and building automated solutions to replace them.
• Enhance the "Single Source of Truth": Collaborate with our IT Solutions team to streamline data integration across our systems, enhancing the accuracy and scalability of our financial models.
• Systems Evaluation: Support the evaluation, configuration, and testing of new FP&A and Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) software solutions as the function matures.

Strategic Modeling, Forecasting & Analysis

• Driver-Based Forecasting: Build dynamic forecast models that allow us to stress-test future scenarios.
• Automation & Efficiency: Champion a shift in the FP&A teams's time allocation toward 70% high-value analysis and 30% reporting by automating data integration.
• Value-add Analysis: Analyze complex intersections of data to uncover profitability insights that aren't visible in standard reports.
• Performance Management & Analysis: Support budgeting and target-setting, while conducting variance analysis that moves beyond simple actuals vs. budget comparisons to provide actionable operational context.

Business Partnership

• Empower Leaders: Translate complex datasets into clear, actionable insights for non-finance business leaders.
• Financial Literacy: Support the Manager in training non-finance stakeholders on how to interpret new reports and leverage FP&A insights for decision-making.

Qualifications:

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Accounting, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 3-6 years in a data-heavy analytical role within Finance or FP&A.
• Demonstrates a solid grasp of core financial concepts.
• Bring a proactive approach to leveraging AI and automation to solve complex financial problems and modernize workflows.

Experience:

• Comfortable working with large, complex datasets and can conceptualize multidimensional data structures. You enjoy both building new pipelines and optimizing existing logic.
• Experience building and maintaining data models and dashboards in Qlik Sense, Power BI, or Tableau.
• Experience working with ERPs and financial systems, with an interest in system implementations and automated data integration.
• Proven proficiency in SQL and Python for data manipulation is considered an asset.
• Experience challenging existing processes to drive efficiency and utility.
• Experience working in and contributing to a Continuous Improvement-focused environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to present complex financial information clearly and concisely.

Why choose Dillon
Dillon is powered by people who are technically proficient, passionate about socially important projects, and motivated to deliver superior, tangible results. We strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation, and are empowered to continually grow and develop.
We live our core values:

• Reliability: words result in actions that build trust;
• Achievement: do the work to hit the target;
• Continuous development: always learning; always adapting; always growing;
• Creativity: discover new possibilities;
• Courage: do the things that matter, especially when it's hard;
• Inclusiveness: enabling belonging to draw strength from our differences.

In addition, we offer:

• Employee share purchase plan

• Dillon is 100% employee owned and share ownership is open to all employees.

• A competitive compensation package

• Comprehensive health benefits
• Generous retirement savings plan
• Student loan repayment assistance with matching employer contributions

• Flexible work hours and hybrid working options

• Dillon values its staff and the contributions that are made each day and understands that work arrangements can differ based on personal needs and business needs. We are taking a trust-based approach to o?er a variety of ?exible and hybrid work options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

• Learning and Development opportunities

• As a knowledge-based business, the organic growth of our knowledge and skills occur through our work performance and roles. The creation and sharing of knowledge allows us to take local knowledge to scale, capture lessons learned through experience, and continuously improve service delivery. The development of self and others is an evident and measured core behaviour within our organization
• We use a composite approach to development including coaching to build the how, mentoring to share lessons, advising to round out perspectives, and co-creation of knowledge through internal learning opportunities.

• Focus on Innovation

• The ability to anticipate, examine, and adopt new and innovative solutions is a crucial driver for the continual and progressive advancement of our business performance. In our culture, people are empowered to reflect and question current practices and seek forward looking solutions to today's problems and tomorrow's opportunities.

• Employee and Family Assistance program

• A variety of EFAP tools and online resources to support well-being are available to all employees.

• Goodlife Fitness Corporate Membership

• Our employees can take advantage of reduced annual membership fees.
• Wellness Subsidy

• Our employees can take advantage of a wellness subsidy that can be put towards expenses for a variety of health and/or wellness related activities such as gym membership, purchase of home fitness equipment, yoga classes and dance classes.

About Dillon
Dillon is a proudly Canadian, employee-owned, professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. We partner with clients to provide committed, collaborative, and inventive solutions to complex, multi-faceted projects. With over 20 offices and more than 1000 employees across Canada, Dillon offers a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.
Now operating for over 75 years, we continue to strive for excellence in everything we do. Dillon has been listed as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the past 18 years and has the distinction of having achieved Platinum Club member status in this program.
Health & Safety at Dillon
Prospective employees are expected to fully align with Dillon's core commitment to Health & Safety. This includes active, ongoing engagement with our Health & Safety processes and platform, and the active, ongoing identification and reporting of health and safety hazards.
Employment Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at Dillon
Dillon is committed to the principles of employment equity, inclusiveness, and diversity within our organization. We strive to achieve a workplace where opportunities are based on skills and abilities and that respects and values differences.
Inclusion is more than a word to us, it is the way we choose to run our business. We encourage you to contact us if you require accommodation during the interview process. We would love to hear from you!

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