Finance Coordinator

Calgary Economic Development (CED) is an opportunity-maker, helping to spark and fuel Calgary’s growth. Our job is to connect people with resources that can help them grow their careers or businesses, thrive in new locations or markets, and feel at home in our community. We offer a wealth of information to help everyone succeed and we tirelessly promote Calgary, in Canada and around the world. We’re exhilarated about our role in shaping and sharing Calgary’s story as the Blue Sky City.

**Job Summary**

The Finance Coordinator is responsible for supporting the finance and administration team by assisting in financial accounting, analysis & report preparation as well as facilitating financial processes across the organization.

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Complete expense report review and payments in compliance with expense policy
- Reconcile, maintain and balance bank accounts - liaising with financial institutions as required.
- Reconcile general ledger accounts, prepare working papers and journal entries for CED as well as related entities, CFCL and OCIF
- Support the integration and set up of improved automation with other related party entities (i.e. Concur, banking, EFT)
- Assist in the preparation of annual financial statements and notes and assist in managing the annual external audit process of the organization to ensure audit requirements are met
- Assist in the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial and operational reports to management, the Board, Audit Committee and City reports.
- Provide continuous, monthly, and quarterly forecasting, cash flow reporting, budget preparation and support
- Support activities for monthly and annual reporting of key metrics in CRM, balanced scorecard, and business plan
- Provide support in editing/improving policies and process - prepare policy documentation, create systems and procedures to maximize efficiencies.
- Provide support to team members as required typically by gathering information, preparing correspondence, providing reports and other documents, directing others in various administrative, forecasting, budgeting and accounting areas.

**Let’s Talk About You**

You are a team player, a proactive and results driven professional who has been developing your financial skills.

You are looking for a position that will combine your extraordinary organizational skills with broad business experience as you grow in your career. You are unbelievably organized and get a thrill from checking things off your to do list. You roll up your sleeves to get a job done and even when your day doesn’t go quite as expected.

You have a passion for our city and are excited at the prospect of working on projects that build on the energy of our community. You are collaborative and thrive in a fast-paced environment and can manage multiple projects with ease.

**Education**:

- Post-secondary education with a degree or diploma in Finance or Accounting
- CPA designation would be an asset, but not mandatory.

**Experience**:

- Minimum of 3 years of progressively responsible experience in the area of accounting/financial services support during which time professional capability has been clearly demonstrated.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel and experience working with systems such as Concur and QuickBooks.
- Note: An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered._

**Key Competencies**:

- Collaboration: Participative & Information Sharing / Generally works independently
- Accountable: Takes ownership of own work, ensuring quality
- Respectful: Able to work well in teams and with other departments; is respectful of others
- Entrepreneurial: Ability to self motivate with a drive for achievement.
- Client Service / Customer Orientation: Builds effective relationships with clients; provides information and understands expectations
- Local Insight: Understanding of the local business environment, government, industry, culture, and regulatory environment
- Proficient use of Microsoft office (MS office, Excel, Word, Windows 11)
- Familiarity with CRM platforms
- Understanding of
- Accounting Standards/Principles
- Financial Controls and processes
- Financial Analysis / variance analysis
- Reconciliation
- Budgeting
- Working with finance information systems to track financial data and prepare reports

**What’s In It For You?**

CED offers more than a competitive base salary to our employees. We have a comprehensive benefit plan that includes 100% employer paid benefit premiums, RRSP’s, a health care spending account, and a generous vacation and flex time policy. We are committed to our employee’s mental health and offer resilience training with Headversity, free counselling with an EAP program, in addition to paramedical coverage through our medical benefits plan.

CED encourages and supports life-long learning and professional development. Employees are encouraged to access up to $2500 per year of funded professional developmen