Financial Reporting Analyst

Opta’s purpose is to be the leading supplier of performance materials and solutions in the steel, infrastructure, and specialty chemical industries.

The Financial Reporting Analyst (“FRA”) role will work closely with the Corporate Finance leadership team to ensure that the finance function is a valued partner to Opta’s business and its leaders. The FRA will be responsible for delivering consolidated financial information and critical business insights to senior management and other key stakeholders. Furthermore, this role incorporates a combination of financial analysis, business modelling, process/systems development, and project management to ensure that business and financial objectives are met.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

**Financial Planning and Analysis**:

- Develop relationships with various stakeholders and partner with them to prepare budgets, forecasts and manage and track their performance against set goals
- Assist with the consolidation of budget and forecast information and prepare analysis and reporting to senior leadership team
- Assist with the development and maintenance of the company’s multi-year strategic plan

**Accounting and Consolidations**:

- Assist with the consolidation of all group subsidiaries and all activities to facilitate the timely and accurate production of financial statements
- Prepare and post corporate journal entries, including elimination entries, corporate cost allocations and fair value adjustments, as well as reconcile inter-company balances
- Maintain global FX rates used in consolidation
- Create and maintain templates used to upload to, or extract data from, Cognos (consolidation software)

**Financial Reporting**:

- Review and understand the monthly financial results of each group subsidiary and participate in monthly operations calls with business leaders
- Prepare consolidated monthly management reporting, including income statement, balance sheet, cash flow and financial KPIs, for senior leadership team and shareholders
- Assist in the preparation of annual financial statement and disclosure, in accordance with IFRS
- Assist with the year-end audit

**Other**:

- Provide value added leadership to advance the sophistication of the corporate reporting function such as effectively utilizing Cognos for consolidation; collaborate within the function to reduce the close period; establish achievable but ever improving timelines to gather and analyze financial data; build strong linkages between divisions and corporate when gathering and analyzing financial information
- Other duties as assigned

CANDIDATE PROFILE

**Specific performance and personal competencies**:

- Articulate, straightforward, and succinct with excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Well-rounded business acumen and experience in assessing operations and business processes
- Strong analytical, financial and systems skills
- Advanced knowledge of Excel is required and experience with Power BI, Tableau or other data analytics tools would be an asset
- Passion for producing results that have an impact
- Desire to advance in the organization

**Education**:

- Bachelor’s degree in Finance or related area

**Experience**:

- 2 to 3+ years of relevant work experience in financial reporting and/or financial planning and analysis
- Consolidations experience would be an asset

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
- Limited Travel

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice

Our vision is to expand our geographic reach with effective solutions and to diversify into other basic materials industries such as aluminum, copper, concrete, and glass. We will accomplish this by leveraging our customer-focused approach with our innovative product portfolio, equipment, and service.