Job Title: Financial Analyst
Reporting To: Director, Finance
Purpose: To prepare detailed, accurate, and clear budget to actuals variance analysis and management reporting as well as systems implementations for the Finance team.
Overview:
The BC Parks Foundation's mission is to enhance and pass on the legacy of BC's world-class parks system so that it flourishes forever. We are the official charitable partner to the sixth largest parks system in the world, with over 1,034 parks and more than 26 million visits/year.
Our goal is to create the greatest system of parks and protected areas in the world. In the last several years, we have achieved outstanding growth and results, and we pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial and innovative approach.
We Are:
- A successful and growing charitable organization with a stellar track record and significant opportunities ahead
- A warm, positive, hard-working team who are passionate about parks and wildlife in British Columbia
You Are:
- A hardworking, detail oriented, and organized self-starter, who loves budgeting, forecasting and analytics
- Excellent at recognizing areas for process and system improvements, with a proven ability to implement new systems to improve the efficiency of the financial planning & analysis processes
- Analytical-minded with an ability to flex and grow with the organization
- A vibrant, warm, collaborative team player who loves spending time outside and is passionate about BC's beautiful parks
Responsibilities:
The Financial Analyst’s responsibilities include:
- Prepare monthly budget vs. actual reporting by program with variance analysis
- Working closely with Program Managers, prepare annual budgets and monthly re-forecasts
- Prepare monthly analysis on cash flow and investment returns
- Help to identify opportunities to systemize donation revenue recognition and reporting and lead the systems implementation process
- Support with the preparation of reports for Board of Directors, as well as funder and grant agency reporting
- Create and maintain complex financial models and dashboards and provide ad hoc reporting and analysis, as requested
- Lead or participate in other approved initiatives or other projects as requested by the Foundation
- As the trusted financial analysis partner to the organization’s leadership, ensure effective collaboration with program leaders
- Adhere to the highest levels of security re: the Foundation's digital and physical assets
- Other finance-related duties as assigned
All employees may carry out a range of functions beyond their core roles and are expected to help with advancing the organization as a whole
Qualifications and Experience:
- 5+ years of progressive financial analysis and reporting experience
- Bachelor's degree in Commerce, Business Administration or related field; CPA or MBA is an asset
- Expert Excel skills required
- Demonstrated experience in preparing budgets, forecasts, cash flow and investment analytics, business cases and scenario analysis
- Strong analytical, modelling and problem-solving skills
- Demonstrated experience implementing new financial systems for reporting and analysis
- Experience using Business Intelligence (BI) tools an asset
- Proven ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Strong organizational skills with the ability to focus and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
- Experience working in a non-profit organization an asset
Hiring Policy:
BC Parks Foundation is committed to employment equity:
- Preference may be given to candidates with experience with Indigenous and/or other diverse cultures (this includes learning and/or applying information and practices of your culture or that of another culture)
- Those identifying as being part of groups which are underrepresented or have additional barriers to the labour market are encouraged to apply
About the Position:
- This is a permanent, full-time position
- The successful candidate will have the opportunity to work in a hybrid model (combination of in-office and flexible work location)
- Desired start date: Immediate
