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Pay Competitive

Employment type Full-Time

Req#: 00049I !*!

Export Development Canada (EDC) is a financial Crown corporation dedicated to helping Canadian businesses make an impact at home and abroad. EDC offers financial products and knowledge to help Canadian businesses confidently enter new markets, reduce financial risk, and grow their business.

When you join our team, you’ll be helping Canadian businesses learn the endless possibilities that open to them through export and help bring their vision, passion, and innovation to the world. Your knowledge and expertise will support more than 25,000 Canadian businesses and their customers in as many as 200 markets worldwide. You’ll work amongst the best and brightest in an inclusive, collaborative environment that fosters professional development and success. And you’ll know that you’re making an impact every day – for businesses, for Canada and for the people you work with.

Are you ready to make an impact? Join EDC, recognized as a Top 100 and Top Family-Friendly Employer, as we take on the risk so Canadian businesses can take on the world. #LI-Hybrid

Team Overview

Corporate Finance and Control is a collaborative group that provides financial planning, complex financial analysis, reporting under IFRS, taxation compliance and business reporting for EDC. Our group is hiring new members to help us meet the needs of our internal customers and is looking for innovative people interested in changing the status quo for the betterment of this growing and evolving organization.

As the newest addition to our team, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to combine their solid accounting skills with a big picture understanding of business results and the related drivers in order to provide value-added and timely insights to our customers. This includes accessing and combining information from multiple information systems to analyze financial results, developing and improving internal and external reports, and implementing continuous improvements. Our team offers a supportive and collaborative work environment, with opportunities to develop skills and expertise through the wide variety of tasks available on the team.

Discipline Summary

• Performs general accounting activities and maintains accounting and financial records and reports, including general ledger, financial statements, regulatory and management reports.
• Prepares, analyzes and reports accounting transactions ensuring the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with accepted accounting policies and principles.
• Establishes and maintains accounting policies and controls, fiscal controls, prepares financial reports and safeguards the organization's assets.
• Provides accounting guidance to ensure conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and company policies and procedures and ensures that relevant accounting standards are appropriately and consistently applied.
• Provides financial support including forecasting, budgeting, and analyzing variations from budget.
• Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable government regulations, professional standards and organization policies.
• Develops and implements new policies and processes to comply with newly issued accounting or financial reporting standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides financial accounting and prepares financial statements, notes to the financial statements and reports in accordance with IFRS and approves journal entries and reconciliations.
• Prepares management discussion and analysis section of the annual report.
• Reaches beyond received data to review and analyze results from business units with a critical eye for meeting financial reporting requirements and a willingness to challenge others as needed.
• Identifies opportunities to make enhancements to data to improve use and understandability.
• Participates in various system implementation or enhancement projects, including consulting, recommending and implementing reporting requirements.
• Explains difficult/complex issues and, in a manner that fosters mutual respect, uses tact and diplomacy to persuade others to adopt a point of view.
• Researches and interprets new accounting standards/guidelines to assess potential impacts on financial reporting and accounting activities.
• Provides advice on internal control issues and recommends and implements reporting enhancements.
• Provides complex financial analysis and modeling to support decision making of business units and prepares data and input for forecasting and corporate planning purposes.

Screening Criteria

• Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Commerce or other relevant discipline.
• Professional accounting designation such as CPA or equivalent.
• Minimum of 2-5 (Level 16) or minimum 5 years (Level 17) of experience in business, accounting and/or financial analysis.
• Advanced knowledge of IFRS, accounting and financial analysis principles and practices.
• Excellent MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint capabilities and strong ability to work with complex databases.

Assets

• Bilingual in both official languages (French and English)
• Experience in the financial sector
• Ability to prepare and present complex quantitative and qualitative financial analysis in a clear and concise manner
• Experience with Cognos Disclosure Management, PeopleSoft Financials and TM1 reporting systems
• Experience with advanced reporting software such as Power BI
• Experience with researching, providing recommendations and drafting memorandums on accounting standards
• Experience in auditing financial transactions

Salary Range

Salaries are based on qualifications and experience and typically range from;

• Level 16: $69,670 - $92,894 plus performance- based incentive
• Level 17: $79,424- $105,899 plus performance-based incentive
!*! EDC is committed to employment equity and actively encourages applications from women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and visible minorities. !*! If selected for an interview, please advise us if you require special accommodation.

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