Financial Reporting Analyst

Alberta Innovates is seeking a full-time Financial Reporting Analyst to serve as a financial resource for the corporate and granting areas. As a Financial Reporting Analyst, you will play a crucial role in our finance department. You will be responsible for preparing and analyzing financial reports, ensuring compliance with accounting standards, and providing insights to support strategic decision-making.

**Are you our next Financial Reporting Analyst? You would be a good fit for this position if you**:

- Enjoy interpreting and analyzing financial data to assist managers in key decision-making processes.
- Excel in providing accurate forecasting, budgeting, and reporting to corporate finance.
- Thrive as a liaison between corporate finance and programs, leveraging your strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Demonstrate a keen attention to detail and exceptional Excel skills.

**We are game changers**

Alberta Innovates is a provincially funded corporation with a mandate to deliver 21st-century solutions for the most compelling challenges facing Albertans. We do this by building on our province’s research and technology development strengths in the core sectors of health, environment, energy, food and fibre, and platforms such as artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, and omics. We are working with our partners to diversify Alberta’s economy, improve our environmental performance and enhance the well-being of Albertans through research and innovation.

Our subsidiary, InnoTech Alberta, offers a diversified range of scientific engineering and technological research and testing capabilities, and the facilities to support technology scale-up. Our multidisciplinary team has the depth of experience to work across all sectors, from energy to health to food and fibre. InnoTech Alberta offers you access to research talent, technical expertise, and unique facilities that can help accelerate technology development that serves both the private and public sector.

**Intrigued? Here’s some more information about the position**:
**Job Details**

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following:
Forecasting, Budgeting and Reporting
- **Partner with business areas** to prepare monthly forecasts and annual budgets, providing insightful advice and strategic recommendations to drive financial planning and decision-making.
- **Create and deliver** variance analysis reports to corporate finance and functional managers, explaining budget to forecast and forecast to actual at the program level.
- **Identify** trends and anomalies
- **Compile and present** monthly reports and key information to managers, ensuring clarity and actionable insights.
- **Interpret, analyze, and reconcile** financial information to support accurate and informed decision-making.

Program Analysis and Contract Review
- **Evaluate financial scenarios** and offer expert consultation to functional areas.
- **Prepare financial reports** for various levels of internal and external stakeholders, ensuring compliance with accounting standards and regulations.
- **Provide insightful analysis** on program areas as needed.
- **Examine contracts and amendments** to verify payments, assess future commitments, and ensure compliance with the signing authority policy.
- **Compile and present** contractual rights and obligations for inclusion in the year-end annual report and audit.

Financial Advice
- **Provide daily financial advice and support** to program areas and functional managers, acting as a liaison between the finance department and functional areas.
- **Translate complex financial information** into clear, easily understandable terms.
- **Act as a vital financial business partner** for the program areas and corporate finance
- Support internal and external audits by providing necessary documentation and explanations
- **Deliver ad hoc reports** or information as requested

**Qualifications and skills we are looking for**:

- Bachelor’s degree in accounting or finance.
- CPA - Chartered Professional Accountant
- Minimum 3 years related accounting experience.
- Ability to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
- Strong analytical and detail-oriented skills
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
- Adaptability to work effectively in a changing environment.
- Strong proficiency with the English language, excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Proficiency with MS Office software

**Why Alberta Innovates?**

We offer our employees opportunities to work on projects that will expand their skill sets while witnessing the visible impacts of their efforts. We value the development of our employees and create opportunities for working in capacities that allow new skills to be learned. We know that the wellness of our team is the most important part of our business, so we offer a strong benefits package and generous vacation and paid time off programs to promote work-