Finance

Senior Financial Analytics & Data Lead

Sandvik Mining is seeking an

Senior Financial Analytics & Data Lead

Location: Greater Toronto Area, ON

At Sandvik, we offer you a world of opportunities. Our diverse businesses and global network enable you to explore your potential and thrive. We recognize your performance and offer various ways to fuel your growth towards exceptional achievements.

Currently we have an opening for a Senior Financial Analytics & Data Lead within our Finance function.

The Senior Financial Analytics & Data Lead will play a critical role in modernizing the Finance data ecosystem to improve the speed, reliability, and structure of financial reporting and performance analysis. This role will help reduce manual effort, strengthen reporting integrity, and enable structured, scalable analytics across the Finance organization, including practical AI-enabled workflows embedded into Finance operations.

The successful candidate will assess our current data architecture and analytical workflows, re-engineer reporting and month-end close processes, and build a scalable Microsoft Fabric/Azure-based data foundation that delivers faster, more reliable, and more structured financial insight.

Working closely with Finance, Operations, and IT, this role will translate business questions into scalable data solutions by designing robust data pipelines and delivering reliable analytical outputs such as Power BI dashboards, financial models, and performance reporting that support leadership decision-making.

The position combines strong financial acumen with advanced data and analytics capability. Embedded within the Business Control function, the role is focused on improving business performance visibility, strengthening execution discipline, and advancing the Finance organization’s data and analytics maturity.

Are you passionate about improving how Finance uses data, improving processes, driving standardization, increasing data efficiency, and enabling practical AI-powered insights across the organization? We want to hear from you!

While searching for the best opportunity for yourself today, we are already thinking ahead of your future tomorrow. So now we challenge you to take it one step further and apply!

What you will be doing – Core responsibilities

Finance Data Architecture & Environment Assessment:

Assess the current Finance data environment, including reporting workflows, data sources, and analytical processes.
Identify structural inefficiencies in how financial data is collected, transformed, and consumed.
Re-engineer financial data structures to improve scalability, reliability, and transparency across reporting and analytics.
Reduce manual intervention in month-end close workflows. Use AI and process automation to support the Financial Control team in enhancing the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of month-end close and reporting, while streamlining routine and manual activities.
Automate recurring reporting tasks to enhance accuracy and control integrity.
Redesign data structures to better support driver-based business performance analysis.

Financial Data Engineering & Pipeline Development:

Design and maintain structured data pipelines using Microsoft Fabric, Azure, and SQL-based environments.
Integrate ERP, CRM, and operational datasets to create unified analytical models for Finance.
Ensure financial data models are optimized for reporting accuracy, performance analysis, and forecasting.

Power BI & Financial Analytics Platform Ownership:

Own the development and optimization of Power BI semantic models, measures, and reporting architecture.
Standardize financial reporting structures and KPI definitions across the organization.
Improve dashboard reliability, refresh stability, and data lineage transparency.
Design and optimize enterprise-grade semantic models.
Design optimized star-schema and medallion-style data models.

Intelligent Automation & AI Enablement:

Prepare financial datasets and models to support AI-enabled variance analysis and performance insights.
Identify practical opportunities to embed AI and automation within financial analysis workflows.
Support the development of structured commentary generation and advanced analytics capabilities.
Identify and automate repetitive month-end and reporting workflows, reducing manual effort and improving reporting speed, reliability, and control integrity.

Governance, Documentation & Sustainability:

Establish clear governance and documentation for Finance data models, pipelines, and reporting assets.
Reduce key-person dependencies through structured architecture and knowledge transfer.
Implement best practices for deployment pipelines, version control, and model management.

Close Process & Reporting Automation:

Improve the quality, accuracy, and timeliness of month-end close and reporting by reducing manual data manipulation.
Implement automation and structured data processes that streamline recurring reporting workflows.
Support the Financial Control team in strengthening reporting consistency and execution discipline.

Provide direct support to Business Controllers, management, and other stakeholders, providing insight into a wide range of business and financial decisions.

Environmental Health and Safety

We are ethical and compliant, dedicated to health, safety, and sustainability. We put health and safety first!

What you will bring along

University degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics, Computer Science, or a related field
CPA designation or progress toward designation considered an asset.
4–7 years of experience in financial analytics, business intelligence, or data-driven FP&A roles.
Demonstrates a team-first mindset, working collaboratively across Finance and the broader organization to achieve shared outcomes.
Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

Required Technical Skills:

Advanced SQL capabilities including complex queries, window functions, and performance optimization
Strong Power BI expertise including semantic modeling, DAX development, and performance tuning
Experience designing and maintaining ETL/ELT pipelines in modern cloud environments
Experience working with Microsoft data platforms (Azure, Microsoft Fabric, or similar ecosystems)
Strong data modeling expertise including star schema design and scalable analytical datasets
Experience integrating data from ERP, CRM, and operational systems
Exposure to Copilot or LLM-grounded analytics in enterprise environments
Advanced Microsoft Excel & PowerPoint skills including ThinkCell.

Required Business Skills:

Strong understanding of financial statements and key performance drivers
Experience supporting budgeting, forecasting, and business performance analysis
Ability to translate financial questions into structured data models and analytical frameworks
Strong stakeholder communication skills with the ability to explain complex data concepts to business users

In return for your passion and drive we will offer you…

The opportunity to make an impact on our business performance.
The opportunity to be part of an ambitious team, in an industry leading business.
The opportunity to reach your full potential.
Ongoing development and training.
An excellent comprehensive compensation package including a pension plan with matching, competitive health, dental, life and disability benefits.

Our Culture

Our core values are the soul of the company. They guide us in our actions and daily business decisions. We are a company with an open-minded culture that encourages employees to share ideas and work innovatively. We embrace diversity and inclusion and inspire everyone to bring their authentic selves to work everyday!

We take pride in our agile customer-focused decision making. We empower our employees, providing strong performance management and opportunities to grow your career.

Do you want to learn more?

All qualified persons are encouraged to apply at www.sandvik.com/careers to the Senior Financial Analytics & Data Lead role, requisition #R0088107; however, Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. While we thank all candidates for their interest, only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

We are an equal opportunity employer which values diversity in the workplace and encourage applications from members of equity-seeking communities including women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, and persons of all sexual orientations or gender identities/expressions.

We are committed to creating an inclusive and barrier free experience to applicants with accessibility needs; therefore, requests for accommodation can be made at any stage during the recruitment process. Please contact commonHR.canada@sandvik.com for more information.

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