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Senior Financial Analyst (Bilingual)

November 21, 2018 by

Job Title:

Senior Financial Analyst – Finance Project Team

Location:

Laval, QC

MANDATE

 

The Client is part of one of Canada’s largest financial institutions. The Client helps protect clients from the ‘accidents of life’ with a wide range of products including credit protection, life, health, travel, home and auto insurance. With more than three million clients, Client authorized products and services are available online, over the phone, and through a network of more than 1,000 branches.

In Canada, they have two lines of business, General Insurance and Life and Health. Their General Insurance business is one of the top home and auto insurance groups in Canada and the national leader in group insurance and affinity marketing. Their Life and Health business is the number one provider of critical illness insurance and direct life and health insurance in Canada.

Accountabilities

The team’s main responsibility is to deliver diversified business and financial projects such as:

  • Understand and support the implementation of new IFRS accounting standards
  • Coordinate changes on current reporting and accounting systems
  • Support the accounting & capital functions on complex transactions by providing key finance and business advices
  • Participate in the implementation of best finance practices for accounting, reporting and control
  • Participate in the preparation of the annual financial statements and quarterly reportings

The team is seeking a highly motivated employee to join a very strong, dynamic, well diversified and experienced team who represent the finance function on several complex projects and transactions.

 

The Senior Finance Analyst position requires an action oriented team player with strong accounting skills, good business acumen and demonstrated problem solving, reporting and data management capabilities. The candidate will report to the Senior Manager Finance.

The successful candidate is a strong and innovative professional accountant who offers working solutions to business partners/peers/management having strong relationship management skills and the ability to deal with changes in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.

 

Key accountabilities for this position include:

  • In collaboration with Chief Accountant's Group, understand the new IFRS standards and their application by assessing the operational impact to systems, processes and financial statements. In addition, coordinate and participate in the implementation of required changes following the assessment.
  • Implement effective and innovative solutions, including automation, where there is an opportunity to gain efficiencies through continuous process improvement.
  • Act as subject matter expert for finance on business and capital transactions and provide guidances/ advices and recommendations to various stakeholders.
  • Prepare annual financial statements and related notes, but also support preparation of quarterly financial statements for regulators.
  • Support the Senior Manager Finance on various ad-hoc business requests impacting financial accounting and regulatory capital.
 

Qualifications and Education Requirements

  • Accounting CPA title.
  • Experience of 5 to 7 years mainly in financial accounting (experience with complex accounting issues will be considered as an asset).
  • Bilingual (English and French), spoken and written.
  • Ability to work independently and excellent organizational skills – project confidence and be able to perform deliverables with minimal oversight to determine where value can best be added
  • Ability to manage several competing priorities and successfully deliver in a responsive manner
  • Excellent ability to work under pressure and need to be comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment where every day is different
  • Analytical sense and proven ability to understand and synthesize complex information
  • Superior communication skills – be a confident, transparent and concise communicator (verbal and written)
  • Advanced knowledge of Excel.
  • Experience in insurance business is considered an asset.
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