Financial Analyst

The University of Alberta; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent educational institution in Canada is seeking a Financial Analyst to play a crucial role in the Finance Partnership Network. The position involves developing reporting templates, managing financial data, and providing analysis and guidance to stakeholders. This hybrid role combines remote and in-person work, ensuring the incumbent can support budgeting, forecasting, and reporting. A bachelor's degree in finance or accounting is required, along with strong data analysis skills.

Benefits

Comprehensive benefits package

Hybrid work opportunities

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of data-driven decision-making and financial analysis.
• Experience with budget preparation and management.
• Knowledge of financial reporting standards and requirements.

Responsibilities

• Bridge the gap for research post-award administration.
• Develop standard reporting templates and tools.
• Deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to stakeholders.

Skills

Data analysis

Financial reporting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related field

Tools

Excel

Financial reporting software

Job description

This competition is open to all applicants however; internal candidates and applicants who were former employees of the University of Alberta will be given priority consideration before external candidates. Please log in to verify your internal candidate status.

This position is a part of the Non-Academic Staff Association (NASA).

This position has a term length of two years and offers a comprehensive benefits package.

Location - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person.

Position Summary

The Financial Analyst will play a key role in the Finance Partnership Network within Finance, Procurement and Planning in bridging the gap for research post-award administration, develop and implementation of standard reporting templates, generating financial data and building of reporting tools that will help support the finance partnership network in budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

The incumbent will assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations and reports to executives and stakeholders to achieve the goals of the department and division. In addition to day-to-day data entry support, journal entries and monthly reporting, this position will be responsible for account analysis and reconciliation, preparation and distribution of management reports and budgets while ensuring accuracy and consistency as well as making recommendations for improvement in financial reporting and providing guidance, advice and training to community members.

This position will ensure effective data and information management (collection, analysis and reporting),and is responsible for assessing requests, compiling statistical information, investigating, preparing reports and analyzing trend information.