Financial Analyst
BGIS is a global leader in integrated facility management services, and they are seeking a Financial Analyst I. The role involves providing standard transactional support within the accounting cycle, performing account reconciliations, and assisting in financial analysis and reporting tasks.
Responsibilities
- Provides standard transactional support for a process within an Accounting cycle or client account / product line
- Ability to complete and resolve assigned basic account reconciliations independently
- Identifies issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting
- Understand GAAP requirements relevant to the financial cycle or portfolio supported
- Basic understanding of audit and internal control requirements
- Maintains accurate and complete records for audits
- Gathers audit support data upon request
- Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
- Basic understanding of the interactions between financial systems related to the portfolio supported
- Able to work with IT and operational teams on basic system setups
- Simple data extracts to support the preparation of forecasts
- Provides relevant trending analysis to support the preparation of forecasts
- Responds to internal requests for simple ad hoc analysis with guidance from senior team members
- Support preparation of internal reports
- Provides support/input into basic business cases
- Single, high volume or multiple, low volume portfolios
- With standard transactions
- Some Concerned parties interaction with transactional level data
- Generate routine transactional data to support operational decision making
- Awareness of financial obligations of portfolio
- Supports delivery of contract/portfolio deliverables of a financial nature in a timely and efficient manner, in areas of less complexity
- Understand basic business processes and ensures compliance and ensures appropriate documentation
- Identification of basic issues or discrepancies
- Has demonstrated a curiosity for the industry and business which they support
- Has made initial connections with operational counterparts in support of transactional processes
Skills
- College/University graduation or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CMA, CGA or equivalent courses)
- Minimum of 1 to 3 years of related experience
- Ability to prepare month end journal entries to support proper transaction reporting
- Basic understanding of the interactions between sub ledger and general ledger
- Understanding of audit requirements
- Ability to identify issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting
- Ability to communicate processes and procedures within the team and to internal customers
- Ability to prepare basic memos and provide basic variance explanations
- Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
- Registered in an Accounting designation program (CGA, CMA)
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