Energy management consulting

Position: Finance Analyst
Company: Goldfin Consulting Inc.
Location: Toronto ON / Hybrid

About Us

Goldfin Consulting helps organizations move from ad hoc energy projects to a strategic, integrated approach to energy management. We build the capabilities needed for people to take actions to address the climate crisis. By combining Strategic Energy Management with intentional workforce development and adult learning principles, Goldfin helps organizations build the skills, systems and culture needed to embed energy performance into everyday business practices.

Role Summary

Within Goldfin’s growing consulting business, the Finance Analyst is a high-impact and hands-on role, supporting financial planning, performance analysis, and operational decision-making. This role plays a critical part in scaling financial processes, improving visibility into project and company performance, and enabling leadership to make informed strategic decisions.

Operating in a lean environment, the Finance Analyst works closely with leadership, project management, and operations to deliver timely insights on revenue, profitability, utilization, and cash flow, while helping build the financial infrastructure required for continued growth.

Responsibilities

1. Financial Planning & Analysis

• Support budgeting, forecasting, and long-range planning
• Track actuals vs. budget and explain variances
• Develop financial models to support resourcing and compensation planning, pricing, and growth decisions

2. Revenue & Project Profitability Analysis

• Analyze project-level performance (revenue, margin, utilization)
• Partner with project management and delivery teams to revise forecasts and/or improve project economics
• Identify trends in billable hours, rates, realization, and utilization

3. Pricing and Strategic Support

• Assist with pricing and profitability models for proposals and contract development
• Provide ad hoc analysis to support business decisions

4. KPI Development & Reporting

• Build and maintain dashboards for key metrics, such as project and deliverable margins, effective billable rates.
• Deliver regular reporting packages to leadership

5. Cash Flow & Financial Health Monitoring

• Maintain cash flow projections, monitor cash position, AR, and billing cycles
• Help ensure the business scales without cash constraints

6. Process Improvement & Systems

• Help implement and improve financial systems, tools, and processes
• Automate reporting and reduce manual work
• Support integration between finance and project management tools

7. Revenue Operations

• Ownership and implementation of invoicing activities, ensuring timeliness, accuracy, and compliance with QA/QC procedures and contract terms.
• Interacting with clients, contractors and vendors to answer questions and resolve issues.

8. Financial Operations

• Ownership and implementation of internal accounting activities, including managing accounts payable, accounts receivable, reconciling expenses, and tax administration.
• Liaise with external accountants on payroll, bookkeeping, accounting, tax payments and financial reporting.

9. Banking Operations

• Manage Goldfin’s banking needs, including managing accounts, credit, and credit cards.

Profile / Ideal Candidate

• 2–5 years of experience in finance, FP&A, consulting, or accounting
• Strong analytical skills, combined with the ability to apply critical thinking and problem solving to make recommendations or take initiative to implement solutions
• Experience building models and data tracking and monitoring systems (Excel or equivalent)
• Experience with project-based or services businesses is a strong asset
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Able to translate financial data into actionable business insights
• Strong communication skills—can work directly with non-finance stakeholders

This might be the right role for you if you’re looking for…

• High visibility: Direct exposure to leadership and strategic decisions
• Broad scope: Not siloed—touches all aspects of the business
• Builder role: Opportunity to shape processes, not just follow them

Why Work at Goldfin

Goldfin was founded with the goal of bringing together a talented team dedicated to doing meaningful work, with a strong commitment to the well-being and fair treatment of our people. We are passionate about our mission to help organizations reduce energy use and GHG emissions to address the climate crisis, and we foster a culture of respect, candor, and continuous learning. Our team is made up of innovative, supportive individuals who value work-life balance and bring their true selves to work. At Goldfin, we collaborate, learn from each other, and are always excited to bring fresh ideas to the table. If you're looking to join an inspiring, driven team, we’d love to have you on board!

We offer:

• 35-hour standard work week
• 3 weeks of vacation, 10 personal days, plus a 3-day paid-holiday period at the end of the year (i.e. up to 28 days total)
• 1:1 registered retirement savings plan (RRSP) matching up to 3% of salary
• Attractive health benefits
• Hybrid work environment with flexible work hours
• Home office setup supplies (computer, monitor, mouse, keyboard, headset, and potentially other equipment, on as needed basis)
• A minimum $2,500 annual personal development budget
• Proactive salary assessments to ensure fair compensation, stay competitive with market rates, and maintain pay equity across similar roles
• Bonus: When Goldfin does well, Goldfinners do well – profits are shared with team members

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Apply here: https://goldfin.ca/careers/

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