Financial Analyst

MAKING AN IMPACT

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Finance, the Financial Analyst serves as a business partner to all operation teams across Canada. The Financial Analyst is responsible for preparing various reports and providing support on reporting, budgeting, and forecasting for nationwide budget holders. This position develops and maintains processes between different teams across the organization. In addition, the analyst is a “core audit team” member to provide support during the audit process. This position liaises with a wide variety of internal parties, staff, and senior management.

WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING:

Provide supports for the preparation of monthly reports and annual budget variance analysis
Prepare, review, and distribute standardized monthly financial reports.
Tracks and determines financial status by performing monthly variance breakdowns for management.
Prepares consolidated monthly/annual financials.
Budget holder liaison
Supports the design and rollout of budget/reforecast templates.
Provides training to budget holders for coding and reporting in Oracle PBCS
Assist in the budget & reforecast process, and able to work in partnership with different teams and financial experts.
Provides excellent customer service to budget-holders in response to reporting inquiries and provides accounting assistance where required.
Other accounting support as required
Prepares ad-hoc and trend reports for management.
Performs key accounting functions, including assisting with month-end and year-end closing.
Special projects and other tasks assigned by the Senior Manager, Finance
Contribute to our culture of diversity, inclusion, belonging and equity (DIBE) by ensuring that all staff feel represented, valued, and heard across all aspects of their identity, including gender, age, religion, ethnicity, nationality, race, and sexuality
Other duties as assigned

QUALIFICATIONS:

Post-secondary education in accounting, as well as specialized technical/professional training and/or certification, or equivalent
Professional accounting designation, CPA (in progress) or equivalent experience, will be preferred
1 - 3 years of some practical or job-related experience
Excellent customer service and communication skills (oral and written) required
Proficient in Excel and accounting/reporting systems (complex systems e.g. NetSuite and PBCS preferred)
Strong organizational skills, commitment to meeting deadlines, ability to prioritize, and attention to detail
Hight customer service focus, communication and interpersonal skills
Strong problem-solving and critical-thinking skills; able to identify issues, propose viable solutions, and implement appropriate changes
Continually seeks process improvements and efficiencies; initiates new ideas to increase overall team effectiveness; devoted to self-development and sharing best practices
Motivated, positive, solutions-focused with a ‘can do’ attitude, able to work independently and in a team
English is required; French/Bilingualism (French /English) is an asset due to the organization’s nationwide operations.
Others may apply