Senior Analyst, Project Financials & Reporting
Role Overview
The Senior Analyst supports accurate accounting, forecasting, reporting, and governance for capitalized software, intangible assets, and fixed assets throughout their useful lives.
The role is part of the IT&S Finance and Enterprise Business Insights team and collaborates with Technology, Audit, Finance, and project teams.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
The Senior Analyst supports accurate accounting, forecasting, reporting, and governance for capitalized software, intangible assets, and fixed assets throughout their useful lives.
The role is part of the IT&S Finance and Enterprise Business Insights team and collaborates with Technology, Audit, Finance, and project teams.
Responsibilities
- Manage recurring amortization and depreciation for software, intangible assets, and fixed assets; review and reconcile calculations and investigate variances.
- Validate useful lives, in-service dates, methods, and classifications; ensure asset additions, transfers, retirements, and other changes are recorded accurately.
- Prepare software flip confirmation attestations and work with project teams to assess readiness for intended use; monitor in-service dates and resolve exceptions.
- Support impairment and write-off assessments, coordinate accounting treatment, and prepare monthly journal entries while maintaining financial controls.
- Apply forecasting, variance analysis, data quality, and reporting controls to strengthen governance.
- Support audits and communicate financial policies, guidelines, and best practices.
- Collaborate across teams to improve and automate reporting, tracking, analytics, accuracy, quality, and cycle times; provide ad hoc management reporting and analysis.
Experience and qualifications
- At least three years of relevant experience in accounting, financial analysis, or project financial reporting.
- Understanding of fixed and intangible assets, software capitalization, amortization, depreciation, and impairment.
- Strong reconciliation, financial analysis, problem-solving, business acumen, attention to detail, and ability to manage monthly and quarterly deadlines with multiple stakeholders.
- Ability to consolidate large datasets from multiple sources and translate them into meaningful reporting and insights.
- Advanced Excel proficiency, including pivot tables, VBA, Power Query, advanced formulas, and data modelling.
- Strong written and verbal communication, interpersonal, and stakeholder-management skills; able to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.
Additional skills and assets
- Knowledge of data visualization tools such as Power BI.
- Continuous improvement mindset and interest in reporting automation, AI-assisted insights, and reducing manual work.
- Familiarity with banking and financial systems including OBI, EGL, and PeopleSoft, or project portfolio management tools such as CA PPM, is an asset.
Benefits
- The posting describes professional development opportunities, an annual bonus, flexible vacation, personal and sick days, and comprehensive benefits beginning on the first day.
- The employer describes an inclusive culture, employee resource groups, and commitment to accessibility and workplace accommodations.
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