Senior Financial Analyst

Job Description

As a key member of the Finance team, the Senior Financial Analyst’s primary objective is to provide project financials to the business. You will be a business partner to the project and operational management teams to help ensure successful project execution. This will be accomplished through financial reporting, measuring, and controlling, budgeting, forecasting, and cash management.

• Prepare monthly financial results, variance analysis, and executive-level reporting packages.
• Ensure financial processes, documentation, and controls align with SOX internal control environment
• Support monthly close activities, including reviewing junior team members’ tasks, journal entries, reconciliations, and alignment with IFRS and SOX requirements.
• Provide general guidance and mentorship to junior Finance staff on financial processes, reporting, and analysis to support development and adherence to internal standards.
• Prepare weekly financial forecast for Segment Business Review and explain main drivers of variances week over week, as well as identify financial risks and opportunities impacting project and operational performance.
• Partner with Operations to forecast and analyze revenue recognized under percentage-of-completion (POC), ensuring alignment between project performance and financial results.
• Support Operations by answering financial questions, providing analysis, and helping with business decision-making.
• Review departmental forecast and actual headcount and costs with Department Leaders to ensure accurate forecasting and control over overhead spend.
• Monitor, analyze, and forecast overall divisional cash flows, including operational and project impacts, to support effective cash management and forecasting.
• Annual planning and financial forecasting. Department budgets: Prepare annually to support plan and then produce monthly reports comparing actual to plan.
• Pursue and implement process improvements in the department/business
• Auxiliary duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in accounting.
• CPA/pursuit of CPA desired.
• Three (3) - five (5) years’ equivalent accounting experience.
• Experience working in a project-based environment utilizing percentage-of-completion (POC) revenue recognition is preferred.
• Preferred two (2) years of experience in a SOX and IFRS environment.
• Excellent math, communication, and organizational skills.
• Software/system knowledge, e.g., enterprise resource system (ERP), Microsoft Office suite, advanced level skill in Excel.
• Ability to work with business systems; directly or indirectly.
• Must be hands-on and must be able to meet deadlines for his or her responsibilities either directly or indirectly.