Sebastian Munera · Financial Analyst
Sebastian Munera Financial Analyst
Vancouver, BC · Open to Financial Analyst & FP&A roles

Sebastian
Munera

Bachelor of Commerce. CFA Program Candidate. Nearly four years spent running the operating and cash controls of a high-volume Vancouver retail store, and reading the reports that explained why the numbers moved.

I want the analyst seat: turning operational data into a recommendation someone can act on.

Portrait of Sebastian Munera
Open Work Permit (PGWP)
English · Español · Français
25
Store employees whose daily operations I helped run
5
Direct reports supervised and developed
2
Promotions in 10 months, associate to assistant manager
2027
CFA Level I sitting, February
01 Profile

I learned finance the unglamorous way: reconciling cash, defending counts in audits, and explaining a bad week from a report nobody else had read closely.

Between June 2022 and March 2026 I went from sales associate to assistant store manager at Dollarama on Granville Street, a high-volume downtown Vancouver location with roughly 25 employees. The title says retail. The work was operational finance: daily sales and KPI reporting, cash reconciliation and bank deposits, inventory planning and purchasing, internal-control compliance, and inventory audits where the count either ties or you find out why.

Alongside that I completed my Bachelor of Commerce at University Canada West in July 2025, and I am now a CFA Program Candidate sitting Level I in February 2027. Coursework covered financial modelling and financial statement analysis; the CFA curriculum is where I am deepening valuation and portfolio work.

What I bring to a first analyst role is not a long list of models. It is four years of accountability for real money, a working habit of checking inputs before trusting output, and the leadership experience to communicate a finding to people who have to act on it.

02 How I think about analysis
01

Start at the discrepancy

A figure that does not tie is the most useful thing on the page. Cash variances and audit differences taught me to treat the exception as the entry point, not the annoyance.

02

A metric earns its place by changing a decision

Reporting nobody acts on is overhead. I would rather hand a manager the three drivers they can actually move than a dashboard of forty they cannot.

03

Controls before cleverness

Reconcile first, model second. An elegant analysis built on inputs nobody verified is a confident guess wearing a spreadsheet.

03 Experience

Dollarama, 540 Granville St, Vancouver. One store, three roles, June 2022 to March 2026.

Assistant Store Manager

Apr 2023 – Mar 2026
Dollarama · Vancouver, BC

Second in command of a store running roughly 25 employees, with the reporting, cash and inventory responsibilities that came with it.

  • Read daily sales reports and operational KPIs, isolated what was moving the numbers, and fed that back into staffing, ordering and floor priorities.
  • Performed cash reconciliations and bank deposits daily, investigating variances and holding the store to company internal-control procedures.
  • Managed inventory planning, purchasing and replenishment, trading off availability against the cost of carrying stock that did not turn.
  • Participated in inventory audits: reconciled counted stock against system records and stood behind the accuracy of what was reported.
  • Supervised and developed five direct reports, building a collaborative, high-performance floor culture.
  • Set merchandising to match what the sales data said was actually selling, not what was assumed to sell.

Team Leader

Oct 2022 – Apr 2023
Dollarama · Vancouver, BC
  • Supervised up to 25 employees, built schedules, and opened and closed the store.
  • Prepared bank deposits and took first responsibility for end-of-day cash accuracy.
  • Trained new employees on procedure and point-of-sale systems.

Sales Associate

Jun 2022 – Oct 2022
Dollarama · Vancouver, BC
  • Processed point-of-sale transactions and handled cash accurately through high-traffic shifts.
  • Received merchandise, replenished inventory and maintained visual merchandising standards.
  • Promoted to Team Leader after four months.
04 Skills

Labelled honestly. Applied means I have done it on the job; academic and foundational mean exactly that.

Finance & accounting
Financial analysisApplied
Financial controlsApplied
Cash management & reconciliationApplied
Financial modellingAcademic
Financial statement analysisAcademic
Analysis
KPI & data analysisApplied
Business performance analysisApplied
Business process improvementApplied
Variance investigationApplied
Technology
Excel: PivotTables, VLOOKUP, IF logicProficient
Microsoft OfficeProficient
SQLFoundational
Power BIFoundational
POS & inventory systemsApplied
Client & operations
Operations managementApplied
Team leadershipApplied
Client service & relationship managementApplied
SalesApplied
05 Education & credentials
Completed Jul 2025

Bachelor of Commerce

University Canada West, Vancouver, BC

Coursework across financial modelling, financial statement analysis, accounting and business strategy.

In progress, Feb 2027

CFA Program Candidate

Level I exam scheduled February 2027

Studying ethics, quantitative methods, financial reporting, corporate issuers and equity valuation alongside full-time work.

Leadership
Senior Peer Leader
University Canada West, 2023 to 2025. Mentored incoming students through their academic transition.
Languages
SpanishNative
EnglishFluent, professional
FrenchIntermediate
Available now · Vancouver or remote in Canada

If you are hiring a junior analyst who already knows what it costs to get a number wrong, let's talk.

Happy to walk through my experience, my CFA timeline, or a take-home exercise.

Email
sebastianmuneramedina@gmail.com
Phone
+1 778 879 1117
LinkedIn
sebastian-munera-medina ↗
Status
Vancouver, BC
Open Work Permit (PGWP)
A quick hello

Hi, I'm Sebastian.

Thanks for taking a look. I'm searching for my first seat in financial analytics, whether that's analyst, FP&A or reporting. If you're hiring or just want to compare notes, I'd genuinely like to hear from you.

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