Financial Analyst

University of Alberta Careers; Edmonton; On-site; CAD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Alberta Careers is seeking a Financial Analyst to join the Finance Partnership Network within Finance, Procurement and Planning. This in-person role is based at North Campus in Edmonton and focuses on bridging post-award administration, developing reporting templates, and building tools to support budgeting, forecasting and reporting.

The analyst will assess processes, determine requirements, and deliver data-driven recommendations to executives and stakeholders.

Qualifications

• Experience with financial reporting and budgeting is preferred.
• Strong analytical and data interpretation skills.
• Ability to provide guidance and training to colleagues.

Responsibilities

• Prepare and distribute management reports and budgets.
• Perform day-to-day data entry, journal entries and monthly reporting.
• Conduct account analysis and reconciliation to ensure accuracy.

Job description

Location - This role is in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton.

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.