OPEN: Senior Financial Processing Analyst

Cpus Engineering Staffing Solutions Inc.; Oshawa; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Cpus Engineering Staffing Solutions Inc. is looking for a Senior Financial Processing Analyst with 6-8 years of experience in accounting and finance. This role involves providing support for system enhancements, financial analysis, and managing processes related to accounts receivable and other financial functions.

The ideal candidate will have a CPA designation and a strong understanding of financial operations within large corporations. Excellent communication skills and project management experience are essential for success in this position.

Qualifications

• Requires over 6 to 8 years of experience in financial or accounting roles.
• Ability to prepare and present strategies and work program reports.
• Experience in assessing and developing accounting practices.

Responsibilities

• Support Controller/Manager with system enhancement and problem-solving.
• Develop and maintain procedures to satisfy financial processing applications.
• Coordinate projects to optimize business processes in Finance and Supply Chain.

Skills

Knowledge of business and accounting principles

Project management experience

Communication skills

Understanding of financial operations

Education

Four-year university education in finance or accounting

Certified Accounting Designation (CPA – CA/CMA/CGA)

Job description

Senior Financial Processing Analyst

Job Overview

• Provide support to Controller/Manager through system enhancement and support, analysis and problem-solving in regard to one or more of the following areas: Project and enhancement work planning and control, e.g., project planning, coordinate technical resources e.g. New Horizon; Operational support, e.g. monitor/cost collection and reporting, transactional/cost analysis and transactional/cost management support; Maintenance of existing systems e.g. Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Fixed Assets, Contract Office, Supply Chain, Business Warehouse, Commercial Operations, Nuclear Contractors, and Nuclear Time Reporting; Contract/Billing Administration, Financial/Management Analysis & Reporting.
• Carry out the development and maintenance of procedures and systems, as the designated Single Point of Contact (SPOC), in order to satisfy the financial processing applications and financial systems.
• Provide technical advice and guidance development, implementation and ongoing maintenance/support of assigned systems.
• Carry out activities related to maintaining and ensuring a consistent framework for assigned SFS systems within the Corporation.
• This includes participating in activities such as financial analysis and reporting, contract administration, operations of processes and cycles e.g. cost collection and billing, business transactional analysis, and system processing etc.
• Contribute to the development, enhancement and maintenance of systems to support activities for assigned SFS systems within the Corporation.
• Co-ordinate special studies, analysis, compilations and reporting on specific Financial Processing or Supply Chain business activities.
• Work closely with operational staff to provide support to SFS systems on a daily basis.
• Arrange or provide training for areas that are related specifically to their deliverables/responsibility.
• Work closely with New Horizon Support Staff and other Business Process Owners to ensure assigned applications are maintained and enhanced on a timely and effective manner (i.e. develop test scripts, testing enhancements prior to move to production, coordinate service requests etc.).
• Coordinate projects (of less than $1million), and participate in projects and initiatives which optimize and re-engineer current business processes including processes within Finance and Supply Chain.
• Provide recommendations and carry out formal presentation of same to senior management.
• Assist the Manager by providing advice and guidance, coordination and service support to Corporate groups in areas related to application of assigned systems.
• Work directly with other staff in the department, as a project team leader, or through mentoring of junior staff, providing limited supervisory responsibilities to project or junior staff as assigned, including work assignment, providing instructions and progress and quality checking.

Qualifications

• Requires a knowledge of business and accounting principles, economics, statistics, computer systems, and other disciplines related to the fields of commerce and finance to establish, review and recommend systems and procedures required for the development, enhancements and support of related systems/applications and operations.
• Requires a knowledge of oral and written communications to prepare, recommend and present strategies and work program reports.
• This knowledge is considered to be normally acquired either through the successful completion of a four‑year university education in the appropriate financial or accounting field or by having the equivalent level of education.
• Requires experience in a project management/consultative role in order to provide advice, guidance and ongoing assistance in the development, enhancement and support of department’s applications, etc.
• Requires experience in the development or assessment of accounting practices and controls, and preparation of financial and management reports.
• Requires experience to understand the financial operation of a large corporation.
• Requires business experience in order to participate in the development, and operation of department’s processes, procedures and systems.
• Requires experience to become familiar with the Corporation’s overall operation, functions of major organizational groups, interrelationships within the organization, policy and planning practices, relationship to the external environment and a thorough understanding of how all these aspects are reflected through the financial structure of the organization.
• A period of over 6 years and up to and including 8 years is considered necessary to gain this experience.

Education

• Knowledge of business and accounting principles, economics, statistics, computer systems, and other disciplines related to the fields of commerce and finance.
• Certified Accounting Designation (CPA – CA/CMA/CGA).

Experience

• SFA work experience of 6-8 years.
• Specifically, requires experience in a general accounting environment of a large corporation, and in the accounts receivable (AR) function, to have gained a working knowledge of processes, procedures, systems and interrelationships between various work groups. Requires practical experience in an AR analyst role.

EEO Statement

Our client is dedicated to promoting employment equity and encourages applications from equity‑seeking communities including but not limited to: Indigenous Peoples, racialized individuals, persons with disabilities, and women. Our client aims to build a diverse team that reflects the communities it serves, enhancing its ability to meet their needs. We are committed to an inclusive and accessible work environment and invite all qualified individuals to apply, offering accommodations during the application, interview and onboarding process as needed. This effort supports our client’s long‑term strategy for equity, diversity, and inclusion.