Intermediate Financial Analyst at BGISMarkham, Ontario, Canada — full-time

Description

SUMMARY

The Intermediate Financial Analyst (FA II) provides complex transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle and/or full cycle accounting support. Understands the impact of transactions on financial results and can be proactive to recommend necessary actions and can communicate with stakeholder about transactions, processes and analysis. Provides analysis for areas such as planning, forecasting, reporting and audit and process improvements

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

Accounting

Intermediate transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle

Ability to complete and resolve assigned intermediate account reconciliations independently.

Identifies complex issues and resolves basic transactional accounting discrepancies.

Accounting Policy

Understand GAAP requirements relevant to the financial cycle or portfolio supported

Audit Support and Controls

Intermediate understanding of internal/client control requirements

Maintains accurate and complete records for audits

Gathers audit support data upon request

Financial Systems

Intermediate level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software

Basic understanding and ability to document the transactional and financial data flows between relevant financial systems

Able to work with IT and operational teams on intermediate system setups

Planning/Forecasting

Prepares standard forecasts (internal and external) with the appropriate back-up (including assumptions and calculations)

Responsible for partnering with internal stakeholders in preparation of standard forecasts

Analysis

Prepares in-depth financial analysis (recurring and ad-hoc) and makes recommendations to Internal Stakeholders

Reporting

Preparation of internal reports

Provide input and support for external reports

Prepares basic business cases and provides input to intermediate business cases.

Scope/Complexity

Single, high volume or multiple, low volume portfolios

With some complex transactions

Interaction with Stakeholder

Some Stakeholder interaction with transactional level data and for the purpose of Stakeholder reporting

Generate transactional data and ad-hoc an