Financial Analyst

**ABOUT US**

**OUR CULTURE**

At BGIS, our culture is built on three foundational pillars:

- **Culture of Care**:We deeply care for each other, our clients, partners, and the communities we serve.
- **High Performing Teams**:We go Above and Beyond to deliver exceptional services. INTEGRITY, OWNERSHIP, RESPONSIVENESS, INITIATION, VISIBILITY, DRIVE, and INTEGRATION are core to high performance.
- **Unwavering Commitment to Sustainability**:We conduct every action with a focus on preserving our earth.

**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.

**Opportunities for Development**:
At BGIS we are committed to the development of our people - offering them opportunities to learn and grow into various roles. Success in the role offers Team Members the opportunity to explore various roles - some include:

- Finance roles for different industry workstreams
- On account operations leadership roles in both Facility Management and Project Management

**KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Safety Ownership and Regulatory Compliance**:

- Comply with all internal and external requirements including but not limited to environmental, health and safety, fire protection and mandated by BGIS Health Safety and Environment Teams and enforced by law.

**Accounting**
- Intermediate transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle
- Ability to complete and resolve assigned intermediate account reconciliations independently.
- Identifies complex issues and resolves basic transactional accounting discrepancies.

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

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

**Financial Systems**
- Intermediate level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
- Basic understanding and ability to document the transactional and financial data flows between relevant financial systems
- Able to work with IT and operational teams on intermediate system setups

**Planning/Forecasting**
- Prepares standard forecasts (internal and external) with the appropriate back-up (including assumptions and calculations)
- Responsible for partnering with internal stakeholders in preparation of standard forecasts

**Analysis**
- Prepares in-depth financial analysis (recurring and ad-hoc) and makes recommendations to Internal Stakeholders

**Reporting**
- Preparation of internal reports
- Provide input and support for external reports
- Prepares basic business cases and provides input to intermediate business cases.

**Scope/Complexity**
- Single, high volume or multiple, low volume portfolios
- With some complex transactions

**Interaction with Stakeholder**
- Some Stakeholder interaction with transactional level data and for the purpose of Stakeholder reporting
- Generate transactional data and ad-hoc analysis to support operational decision making, with recommendations

**Financial Management/Contract Interpretation**
- Basic understanding of financial obligations of portfolio
- Ensures delivery of contract/portfolio deliverables of a financial nature in a timely and efficient manner, in areas of less complexity
- Supports the monitoring of performance and assists in action plans
- Seeks guidance on contract/portfolio financial terms and conditions for assigned accounts

**Process Adherence / Implementation**
- Understand intermediate business processes and ensures compliance and ensures appropriate documentation
- Can identify and escalate gaps.

**Problem Solving**
- Identification of basic issues or discrepancies

**Technical and Business Knowledge**
- Has gleaned a basic understanding of the industry and business which they support.
- Has established professional working relationships with operational counterparts in support of transactional processes.

**KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS**
- 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.
- Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software

**Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation**
- Registered in an Accounting designation program (CGA, CMA)

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