Financial Analyst 3

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**JOB DESCRIPTION**
**Duties**:

- Conducts and/or leads complex and/or major financial evaluations, studies and forecasts with

significant and long term impacts and/or political sensitivities involving new business activities,
emerging financial and strategic issues etc.; analyzes and assesses business and financial risks,
opportunities and requirements; develops and presents recommendations; develops related
financial and/or business solutions or program/project proposals, budgets, business cases, and/or
proposed feasibility studies and/or pilots for assigned studies and projects.
- Prepares, presents and acts as an expert advocate for financial and business solutions to senior

management, working groups or committees; explains recommendations and guides clients to
adopt the most prudent and efficient financial and business solution(s); analyzes and reviews
client submissions for accuracy, completeness and compliance with Business Group and

contact to BC Hydro's external auditors.
- Develops, evaluates, implements and tests complex and/or major new or revised financial

policies, procedures, processes and systems. Initiates continuous improvement to business
processes and systems.
- Monitors and provides project leadership throughout the development and implementation

phases of approved projects to assigned project staff and/or consultants; intervenes and follows
up to correct implementation problems; monitors, controls and expedites project timing and
targets; reviews and approves contractor and other project invoices prior to managerial sign off.
- Develops and applies advanced evaluation, statistical and financial analytical processes,

methodologies, models and tools for own and other financial studies undertaken by lower level
Financial Analysts; applies statistical models; analyzes, develops, prepares or evaluates financial
forecasts, summary conclusions, reasons and explanations for differences between forecasted
and actual results; prepares recommendations and supporting data, tables etc.; develops and
- implements methods and techniques to improve forecasting and financial evaluations and
- analyses.- May perform some or all of the same duties as the Financial Analyst 1 & 2. Provides technical

direction, advice and/or training to management and lower level financial accounting employees
- and project team members; may be required to provide work leadership over assigned staff; may
- be required to provide training and support to non-financial managers on the financial system.- Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the

job.

**Qualifications**:
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- Professional accounting designation (example, CA, CGA or CMA or equivalent).
- A minimum of five (5) years of experience in progressively more responsible financial and

business accounting roles, including at least two (2) years as a Financial Analyst 2 or in an
- equivalent role.

**ADDITIONAL INFORMATION**
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**This position is affiliated with the Movement of United Professionals union (MoveUP/COPE).**
- This position mainly supports the BC Hydro enterprise capital reporting function.
- Standard BC Hydro office environment with occasional travel to attend meetings.
- This is a Group 12 MoveUP Full-Time Temporary (FTT) opportunity for approximately 13 months

located in Burnaby.
- As part of the selection process, applicants may be required to take a written test/assessment.
- Advanced knowledge and proficiency in the use of SAP BW AFO and SAP ECC transactions or

similar for data analysis and financial information reporting.
- Well-developed oral, written, presentation and interpersonal communication, and advanced

financial evaluation and analysis experience.
- BC Hydro capital and asset related experience is desired.
- Uses advanced Excel and SAP knowledge and skills to provide meaningful analysis.
- Occasional overtime may be required during peak periods such as quarter-end, year-end

reporting cycle.
- This position may be requested to provide assistance and complete assigned tasks for other

groups within Finance.

Manager in order to meet month-end, quarter-end, and annual reporti