Financial Analyst

**Who We Are**

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6, 500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.

**SUMMARY**

The **Financial Analyst**provides standard transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle, can communicate with stakeholders pertaining to transactions and provides support/input for analysis.

**KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

Accounting
- Provides standard transactional support for a process within an Accounting cycle or client account / product line
- Ability to complete and resolve assigned basic account reconciliations independently.
- Identifies issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting.
- Focus on creating a variety of invoices for both IFM & point solutions clients

Accounting Policy
- Understand GAAP requirements relevant to the financial cycle or portfolio supported

Audit Support and Controls
- Basic understanding of audit and internal control requirements
- Maintains accurate and complete records for audits
- Gathers audit support data upon request

Financial Systems
- Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
- Basic understanding of the interactions between financial systems related to the portfolio supported
- Able to work with IT and operational teams on basic system setups

Planning/Forecasting
- Simple data extracts to support the preparation of forecasts
- Provides relevant trending analysis to support the preparation of forecasts

Analysis
- Responds to internal requests for simple ad hoc analysis with guidance from senior team members

Reporting
- Support preparation of internal reports
- Provides support/input into basic business cases

Interaction with Stakeholder
- Some Stakeholder interaction with transactional level data
- Generate routine transactional data to support operational decision making

Financial Management/Contract Interpretation
- Awareness of financial obligations of portfolio
- Supports delivery of contract/portfolio deliverables of a financial nature in a timely and efficient manner, in areas of less complexity

Process Adherence / Implementation
- Understand basic business processes and ensures compliance and ensures appropriate documentation

Problem Solving
- Identification of basic issues or discrepancies

Technical and Business Knowledge
- Demonstrates a curiosity for the industry and business which they support.Initiates inquiries and connections with operational counterparts in support of transactional processes.**KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS REQUIRED**
- College/University graduation or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CMA, CGA or equivalent courses)
- Minimum of 1 to 3 years of related experience.
- Ability to prepare month end journal entries to support proper transaction reporting
- Basic understanding of the interactions between sub ledger and general ledger
- Understanding of audit requirements
- Ability to identify issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting
- Ability to communicate processes and procedures within the team and to internal customers
- Ability to prepare basic memos and provide basic variance explanations.
- Communicate with various stakeholders, both internal and external regarding transactional data
- Ability to multitask and process high volume of transactions in order to meet deadlinesEntry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
- At BGIS we believe that diversity and inclusion is a key business driver, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organization. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organizational success

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