Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting
Role Overview
The University of Calgary's Financial Reporting group, under the VP Finance and Service, is seeking a full-time regular Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting.
The role reports to the Manager, Financial Reporting and performs complex professional accounting work under generally accepted accounting principles and reporting requirements.
The position involves competing deadlines, changing priorities, and resolving unique problems and projects.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role
The University of Calgary's Financial Reporting group, under the VP Finance and Service, is seeking a full-time regular Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting.
The role reports to the Manager, Financial Reporting and performs complex professional accounting work under generally accepted accounting principles and reporting requirements.
The position involves competing deadlines, changing priorities, and resolving unique problems and projects.
Key responsibilities
- Prepare financial information, forecasts, reports, and analysis for the Board of Governors, committees, senior executives, faculties, and departments.
- Prepare portfolio investment reconciliations and review recorded transactions.
- Analyze results and forecasts, investigate suspect data, make adjustments, and work with budget units to understand processes, issues, and variances.
- Develop business analysis and specifications for tools that analyze, display, and report financial data from multiple sources.
- Analyze senior management concerns and prepare annual reports for agencies and external stakeholders, including Advanced Education and CAUBO.
- Develop expertise in reporting software; help re-engineer business processes and policies to streamline reporting and accounting.
- Research and resolve ad hoc issues, recommend solutions, develop procedures and applications, and test results while balancing stakeholder needs.
- In some situations, supervise accounting clerks, review their work, evaluate performance, and provide training and guidance.
- Coach business officers and managers on accounting and compliance and train less experienced accountants.
Qualifications and requirements
- Professional accounting designation (CPA) and a related university degree.
- At least five years of experience in accounting and analyst functions.
- Intermediate-to-expert use of computer applications, including Excel, SAGE 300, PeopleSoft Query, Cognos, and data warehousing and business intelligence tools.
- Supervisory experience and ability to provide staff direction and leadership.
- High attention to detail.
- Ability to oversee the chart of accounts, chartfields, and internal reporting workflow and flow structure.
- Understanding of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAB) is an asset.
- Working knowledge of CaseWare is an asset.
- Experience with internally and externally restricted net assets and multiple fund structures is an asset.
About the University of Calgary
The University describes itself as an entrepreneurial research university in Calgary, with approximately 36,000 students and a focus on research, hands-on learning, and entrepreneurship.
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