JLL Canada | Senior Analyst, Financial Planning & Analysis/Analyste principal, Planification et analyse financières

Responsibilities

• Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.
• As a Senior Analyst in Financial Planning & Analysis, you will provide critical financial business partnership support to drive strategic decision-making and operational excellence.
• You will be responsible for analyzing and preparing consolidated financial reports, leading budget and forecast processes, and delivering executive-ready insights that translate complex financial performance into clear, actionable recommendations.
• A key contributor to modernizing our FP&A capabilities, you will leverage advanced financial modeling, automation, and AI-enabled analysis to enhance reporting efficiency and support value creation across the organization.
• Participate in coordination, analysis, and consolidation of quarterly forecast and annual budget processes, ensuring completeness, accuracy, and integrity of financial projections.
• Build sophisticated financial models incorporating scenario and sensitivity analysis to evaluate business drivers, market conditions, risks, and opportunities.
• Develop driver-based forecasts and support strategic planning initiatives with forward-looking analysis.
• Prepare consolidated financial reports and variance analyses (vs. budget, forecast, prior year) for senior management and clients, identifying operational and strategic implications.
• Analyze key performance indicators including EBITDA, NOI, revenue trends, operational and capital expenses.
• Contribute to quarterly presentations and reporting packages for JLL Executive Committee, senior management, and external stakeholders.
• Develop strong relationships with business partners across departments, effectively communicating complex financial information and business drivers.
• Act as FP&A representative on cross-functional and technology projects.
• Drive continuous improvement by developing and implementing enhanced reporting tools, processes, and systems that simplify workflows and increase organizational agility.
• Contribute to modernization of enterprise FP&A capabilities including automation, AI-enabled analysis, standardized KPIs, Power BI reporting, and enhanced executive visualization.
• Identify opportunities to redirect capacity from recurring tasks toward higher-value strategic analysis.
• Support ad hoc analysis, special initiatives, and sensitive assignments at the direction of senior leadership.
• Collaborative team player with strong interpersonal skills and ability to build trusted partnerships across all organizational levels.
• Analyste principal, Planification et analyse financières.
• Identifier les opportunités de réorienter les capacités des tâches récurrentes vers l'analyse stratégique à plus forte valeur ajoutée.
• Translate financial performance into concise, executive-ready insights through clear presentations, dashboards, and written narratives

Requirements

• University degree in Business, Finance, or related field.
• Minimum 3-5 years of progressive experience in financial planning & analysis, including forecasting, budgeting, and management reporting.
• Experience in commercial real estate or property management (preferred).
• Proficiency using AI tools to support financial analysis, data summarization, workflow automation, presentation development, and business communication.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite (PowerPoint, SharePoint).
• Experience with Power BI, Power Query, or similar data visualization and business intelligence tools.
• Knowledge of Yardi Voyager, Retail Manager and Forecast Manager (asset).
• Strong ability to work with large datasets, extract insights, and present findings clearly and concisely.
• Strong attention to detail with proven ability to evaluate assumptions, ensure data accuracy, and produce high-quality deliverables.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to translate complex analysis into actionable executive-level recommendations.
• Self-motivated, proactive, and results-oriented with a sense of urgency and commitment to excellence.
• Minimum de 3 à 5 ans d'expérience progressive en planification et analyse financières, incluant les prévisions, la budgétisation et la production de rapports de gestion.
• Excellentes compétences en communication écrite et verbale; capacité à traduire des analyses complexes en recommandations concrètes de niveau exécutif.
• Superior organizational skills and ability to manage competing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced, evolving environment

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated

JLL took its present form in 1999, when LaSalle Partners of Chicago merged with Jones Lang Wootton, a London property firm with roots in the eighteenth century, to create Jones Lang LaSalle. It has used the shorter name JLL since 2014. Headquartered in Chicago and listed on the New York Stock Exchange, it works for property owners, occupiers and investors, handling leasing, capital markets deals, property and facility management, and project and development services, and it manages real estate investments through LaSalle Investment Management, alongside a technology business.

• Industry: Commercial real estate services and investment management: leasing, capital markets, property and facility management, project management and real estate technology
• Headquarters: Chicago, United States (Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated, listed on the NYSE as JLL)