Financial Analyst

**Location**:Pickering, ON, CA, L1V 2R5**Req ID**:46938- #LI-Hybrid**Status**: Contract (24-months)**Working Conditions**: Hybrid Working Environment**Education Level**:4- year university degree**Location**: Pickering, ON**Number of Positions: 2**

**Shifts(s)**: Days**Travel**: Yes
- 10%**Deadline to Apply**:May 28th, 2024**Electrify your career and help build a brighter tomorrow.**
- Every generation has a challenge that defines them. At OPG, we are calling on all innovators, disruptors, thought leaders and change-makers. Join us to electrify life in one generation and build a sustainable future powered by our electricity, our ideas, and our people. Join OPG and make history.- Whether you work in the skilled trades or are a business professional, a career at OPG is an opportunity to electrify your life on - and off - the job.**ACCOMMODATIONS**-
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**JOB OVERVIEW**
- Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is looking for dynamic, strategic and results-driven professional to join our team in the role of **Financial Analyst.**
- Reporting to the Financial Controller, this position will ensure OPG’s compliance with accounting standards and will bring in-depth and wide-ranging knowledge of financial management systems, programs, and practices. This role is focused on OPG’s major nuclear projects.- **KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES**
- Provides financial expertise, analysis and advice regarding financial results to client groups.
- Prepares, analyzes, reconciles and reports on financial information.
- Performs detailed analysis of financial results, including the assessment of variances relative to budget, forecast and actuals, to provide valuable financial insights and recommendations to key stakeholders.
- Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual period end journal entries and financial reporting for major projects, programs and accounts.
- Develops and maintains professional relationships with key stakeholders to support operations, major projects and forecasting. Acts as a specific point of contact to clients.
- Provides management reports utilizing financial systems and other inputs. Performs
ad-hoc financial analysis to respond to non-routine requests and queries.
- Develops, recommends, and monitors the adherence to financial strategies, policies, procedures and guidelines. Ensures clients meet finance requirements.
- Reviews accounting practices and provides assessment of the accuracy, consistency and appropriateness of analysis and conclusions.
- Ensures the integrity of the decision support process through support for the preparation and review of business case summaries.
- Participates in the development and implementation of financial information systems and procedures. Maintains, updates and supports financial systems.
- Maintains a professional awareness in relation to current accounting practice, GAAP and general business environment, the utility industry and communicate impacts and implications.

**EDUCATION**
- 4-year university degree in Business, Finance or Accounting, and/or equivalent experience; and
- Working towards or has completed CPA designation.

**QUALIFICATIONS**
- Minimum 4 years of accounting or finance working experience.
- Experience with financial analysis, controllership and financial systems (SAP, Asset Suite, SAP BPC, PowerBI) is considered an asset.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint and Outlook).
- Experience with financial reporting and management reporting.
- Sound professional judgment and decision making, critical thinking, attention to detail and creative problem solving abilities.
- Strong interpersonal skills, experience in maintaining productive relationships.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills; ability to influence and communicate effectively with key stakeholders at all levels of the company.
- Ability to work in a cross-functional environment.
- A results-oriented focus is essential, as is the ability to work in a fast-paced changing environment and effectively manage several projects simultaneously.
- Experience and exposure from working in highly regulated industries such as utilities, energy, power, mining, or public sector is preferred.**What Makes a Career at OPG Different?**
- As Ontario’s largest clean energy generator, we’re building, expanding, and innovating the equipment and technology that keeps Ontario powered with clean, reliable energy.- At OPG, our values are our strengths. They are fundamental truths about our organization that don’t change:
**Safety** - it’s our business
- **Integrity **- always lead with integrity
- **Excellence** - never satisfied with good enough
- **Inclusion** - working together for powerful outcomes
- **Innovation** - creativity accelerates possibility**Here's why OPG might just be the