Senior Financial Analyst, Rapid Transit – Finance

Role Overview

The Senior Financial Analyst will provide financially informed analysis and decision support to assigned business divisions, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, audit requirements, legal obligations, and corporate reporting requirements. This role requires a strong understanding of the financial and operational impacts of business processes and activities.

What You Will Do

The successful candidate will perform and document monthly inventory reconciliations, investigate variances, and ensure timely resolution of discrepancies. They will also lead the annual Budget, quarterly Forecast, and long-range planning processes for assigned portfolios.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of financial and accounting principles, experience with Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) principles, and excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Requirements

• Completion of a degree in Accounting, Finance, Economics, Commerce, or a combination of education, training and experience deemed equivalent.
• Recognized professional accounting designation (i.e., CPA – CMA, CA, CGA) combined with progressive professional experience in business planning and financial management in a large public or private organization is an asset.
• Demonstrated years’ progressive experience as a financial analyst.
• Experience with Canadian Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) principles.
• Knowledge of business practices, financial analysis, and reporting; understands the financial and accounting impact of business processes to evaluate current and future business activities (e.g., audit, legal, and reporting requirements).
• Experience in the application of the principles and practices of operating and capital budget formulation, analysis, evaluation and controls, financial planning/management processes, generally accepted budgeting principles and techniques, and financial systems.
• Extensive experience using MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.) software tools.
• Knowledge of enterprise-wide financial, human resources and budgeting system, preferably Hyperion.
• Familiarity with MS Power BI or other dashboarding/reporting tools an asset.
• Highly developed interpersonal, and excellent oral/written/presentation communication skills.

Benefits

• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Other benefits not explicitly mentioned

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