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Financial Analyst 3
Number of positions: 1 Job Location: Edmonds 14
Employment type: Temporary Region: Lower Mainland
Hours of work: Full-time (37.5 hrs/wk) Flexible Work Role: Hybrid
Annual salary: $ 104,800.00 - 112,800.00
What you'll do
- Conducts and/or leads complex and/or major financial evaluations, studies and forecasts with significant and long term
impacts and/or political sensitivities involving new business activities, emerging financial and strategic issues etc.; analyzes
and assesses business and financial risks, opportunities and requirements; develops and presents recommendations;
develops related financial and/or business solutions or program/project proposals, budgets, business cases, and/or
proposed feasibility studies and/or pilots for assigned studies and projects.
- Prepares, presents and acts as an expert advocate for financial and business solutions to senior management, working
groups or committees; explains recommendations and guides clients to adopt the most prudent and efficient financial and
business solution(s); analyzes and reviews client submissions for accuracy, completeness and compliance with Business
Group and corporate policies and procedures; acts as a subject matter expert and/or acts as a primary work contact to BC
Hydro's external auditors.
- Develops, evaluates, implements and tests complex and/or major new or revised financial policies, procedures, processes
and systems. Initiates continuous improvement to business processes and systems.
- Monitors and provides project leadership throughout the development and implementation phases of approved projects to
assigned project staff and/or consultants; intervenes and follows up to correct implementation problems; monitors, controls
and expedites project timing and targets; reviews and approves contractor and other project invoices prior to managerial
sign off.
- Develops and applies advanced evaluation, statistical and financial analytical processes, methodologies, models and tools
for own and other financial studies undertaken by lower level Financial Analysts; applies statistical models; analyzes,
develops, prepares or evaluates financial forecasts, summary conclusions, reasons and explanations for differences
between forecasted and actual results; prepares recommendations and supporting data, tables etc.; develops and
implements methods and techniques to improve forecasting and financial evaluations and analyses.
- May perform some or all of the same duties as the Financial Analyst 1 & 2. Provides technical direction, advice and/or
training to management and lower level financial accounting employees and project team members; may be required to
provide work leadership over assigned staff; may be required to provide training and support to non-financial managers on
the financial system.
- Performs duties of a minor nature related to the above duties that do not affect the rating of the job.
What you bring
- Professional accounting designation (CPA) required.
- Five (5) years of experience in progressively more responsible financial and business accounting roles, including two (2)
years as a Financial Analyst 2 or in an equivalent role.
