Do you have experience in leading and managing strategic initiatives and/or working in an FP&A role? Are you eager to gain some experience in the financial services industry? Do you have strong financial analysis and model development skills? If so we have the role for you!
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We are currently looking for individuals to join our client, one of Canada's largest insurance and financial services companies, as a Financial Analyst.
Advantages
- Gain experience working for a well-known insurance company
- Remote role
- Working days: Monday - Friday
- Hours of operation: 9-5 with slight peaks during budget season
- 8-month contract
- Pay Rate: $44.25/hr
- May 1st, 2023 start date
Workers placed through Randstad are eligible for preferred rates on health, dental, and life insurance. This Value-add program will provide a wide range of options to suit your needs.
Responsibilities
As a Financial Analyst, your responsibilities will be:
•Supporting the month-end reporting, forecasting, and budgeting process for expense management
•Investigating and effectively communicate expense variances against budget to business leaders, working closely with Business stakeholders to forecast for upcoming spend
•Providing accounting leadership on project spend, including calculating capitalization and amortization for various qualifying initiatives and maintaining supporting schedules
•Executing month-end close processes including accruals, expense transfers, and review of preliminary results for errors or unusual patterns in results
•Preparing monthly reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of accounts
•Analyzing expense trends and recommend opportunities for savings
•Collaborating with other Finance areas to support and promote process integration and efficiencies
•Preparing or assisting in ad hoc analysis and projects as required by management
•Continuous Improvement
•Providing ideas, solutions, and tools to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of FP&A function
•Initiating Drive improvement projects for Finance, Monitor and deliver on agreed service level metrics.
•Automation to bring process efficiencies
•Providing ad-hoc expense related analysis.
Qualifications
•3+ years of relevant experience leading and managing strategic initiatives and/or working in an FP&A role
•Strong financial analysis and model development skills
•Proven ability to partner and build relationships
•Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
•Proven flexibility/adaptability/creativity to meet deadlines and manage priorities
•Excellent PC skills (Role utilizes tools such as: MSOffice Suite, Oracle, Discoverer/Tableau,
•Highly motivated with the ability to consistently seek out improvements to current processes
•Strong business acumen, technical financial acumen, and analytical skill set
•Ability to prioritize tasks and determine what is important and where value can be best added
•Ability to work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, and, may interface with members of leadership
•Learning ability, strong analytic and diagnostic skills dealing with opportunities and issues
Nice to have:
•CPA or CPA in training
•Thorough knowledge of Finance & Accounting processes
•Knowledge of Oracle general ledger, Planning systems, Discoverer, Hyperion and BI tools (Tableau)
•Numbers savvy and eye for details
•A doer, self-driven and highly motivated.
•Excellent MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint must) skills,
•VBA skills would be an added advantage (Preferred)
•Client first approach committed to quality deliverables and drive service improvements.
•Proactive and resilient. Flexibility in learning new topics, handling change and deadlines.
•Ability to work independently in high-pressure situations. Flexible for extended hour working, as per business needs.
•Operates well in ambiguity and is resilient in changing situations
Summary
If you are interested in the Financial Analyst, please apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Do you have experience in leading and managing strategic initiatives and/or working in an FP&A role? Are you eager to gain some experience in the financial services industry? Do you have strong financial analysis and model development skills? If so we have the role for you!
We are currently looking for individuals to join our client, one of Canada's largest insurance and financial services companies, as a Financial Analyst.
Advantages
- Gain experience working for a well-known insurance company
- Remote role
- Working days: Monday - Friday
- Hours of operation: 9-5 with slight peaks during budget season
- 8-month contract
- Pay Rate: $44.25/hr
- May 1st, 2023 start date
Workers placed through Randstad are eligible for preferred rates on health, dental, and life insurance. This Value-add program will provide a wide range of options to suit your needs.
Responsibilities
As a Financial Analyst, your responsibilities will be:
•Supporting the month-end reporting, forecasting, and budgeting process for expense management
•Investigating and effectively communicate expense variances against budget to business leaders, working closely with Business stakeholders to forecast for upcoming spend
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•Providing accounting leadership on project spend, including calculating capitalization and amortization for various qualifying initiatives and maintaining supporting schedules
•Executing month-end close processes including accruals, expense transfers, and review of preliminary results for errors or unusual patterns in results
•Preparing monthly reconciliations to ensure accuracy and completeness of accounts
•Analyzing expense trends and recommend opportunities for savings
•Collaborating with other Finance areas to support and promote process integration and efficiencies
•Preparing or assisting in ad hoc analysis and projects as required by management
•Continuous Improvement
•Providing ideas, solutions, and tools to increase the effectiveness and efficiency of FP&A function
•Initiating Drive improvement projects for Finance, Monitor and deliver on agreed service level metrics.
•Automation to bring process efficiencies
•Providing ad-hoc expense related analysis.
Qualifications
•3+ years of relevant experience leading and managing strategic initiatives and/or working in an FP&A role
•Strong financial analysis and model development skills
•Proven ability to partner and build relationships
•Strong interpersonal and communication skills (oral and written)
•Proven flexibility/adaptability/creativity to meet deadlines and manage priorities
•Excellent PC skills (Role utilizes tools such as: MSOffice Suite, Oracle, Discoverer/Tableau,
•Highly motivated with the ability to consistently seek out improvements to current processes
•Strong business acumen, technical financial acumen, and analytical skill set
•Ability to prioritize tasks and determine what is important and where value can be best added
•Ability to work effectively with a broad range of stakeholders, and, may interface with members of leadership
•Learning ability, strong analytic and diagnostic skills dealing with opportunities and issues
Nice to have:
•CPA or CPA in training
•Thorough knowledge of Finance & Accounting processes
•Knowledge of Oracle general ledger, Planning systems, Discoverer, Hyperion and BI tools (Tableau)
•Numbers savvy and eye for details
•A doer, self-driven and highly motivated.
•Excellent MS Office (Excel and PowerPoint must) skills,
•VBA skills would be an added advantage (Preferred)
•Client first approach committed to quality deliverables and drive service improvements.
•Proactive and resilient. Flexibility in learning new topics, handling change and deadlines.
•Ability to work independently in high-pressure situations. Flexible for extended hour working, as per business needs.
•Operates well in ambiguity and is resilient in changing situations
Summary
If you are interested in the Financial Analyst, please apply online at www.randstad.ca.
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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