Senior Strategy Manager

Description

The Small and Medium Business (SMB) team of TELUS Mobility Solutions' organization is dynamic, entrepreneurial, and highly engaged. We are as passionate about our team and our customers as we are about our business and we're looking for people who get excited about thinking and delivering differently. Together, the team is responsible for driving profitable growth within a key growth segment for TELUS.

We are looking for a high-energy, curious, and results oriented person to join the SMB Strategy and Planning team for the role of Senior Strategy Manager - Cost of Acquisition & Retention (COAR). In this role, you will be responsible for the annual and monthly financial planning process of all cost related KPIs for our segment. You will also be responsible for leading strategic reviews, business casing, and deep dives geared towards executive decision support and supporting the day to day operations.

Here's the impact you'll make and what we'll accomplish together

You are someone who excels in a business ownership environment, enjoys working with large and complex data sets, and is able to uncover insights to drive continuous improvements to our profitability. You're a natural leader, able to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders across different business units and levels to ensure alignment on key elements of our business' P&L.

Importantly, you can shift effortlessly from deep analysis to articulate clear recommendations and measure success.

Here's how

• Develop the cost component of the SMB annual budget
• Manage the monthly forecasting process and deliver monthly performance updates to Senior Leadership team
• Lead semi-annual strategy reviews/presentations
• Investigate changes to underlying performance, analyze key market shifts and size business impact of opportunities and risks
• Develop scenario-based analysis and make recommendations to Senior Leadership team
• Become the steward of the SMB P&L, providing a critical perspective on the impact of key initiatives
• Become a valued Business Partner - collaborate with Finance, Pricing/Operations, and Business Intelligence teams to minimize areas of risk, execute on areas of opportunity, and to ensure alignment between financial commitments and actual results #LI-REMOTE

Qualifications

What you bring

• Strong business acumen and a proven ability to synthesize business results into actionable insights
• Highly proficient in business and financial analysis with deep Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint and Google Sheet/Presentation expertise
• Comfortable performing complex data analysis and presenting to key stakeholders
• Proven, self-directed, hypothesis-driven problem-solving approach
• Accounting experience; Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified General Accountant (CGA) or Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) designation preferred
• University degree with 5-7 years of relevant experience

Great-to-haves

• Telecommunications expertise and/or wireless experience
• SQL - experience writing queries to extract and manipulate data
• MBA or CFA designation
• Consulting, strategy or finance background