This position is office based and can be located in either our North Bay or Sudbury office.  

Job Description:

The Financial Analyst provides performance reporting, budgeting/forecasting, analysis and business support.  An essential part of the role is to ensure connectivity and alignment with Finance, Area Managers, Project Controls, Payroll, Engineering, Contracts and clients.  In this context the jobholder will be expected to work with all of these functions in both a support, and influencing/challenging capacity.  This role will lead and sponsor process creation, improvement initiatives, and changes within Redpath Canada Limited. 

Education and Experience:

Required:  Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting or related courses.

Preferred:  Accounting designation CPA (CGA/CA/CMA) or CFA preferred.

3-5 years’ experience working in accounting environment, preferably in a project environment with detailed knowledge of accounting for contract and change order documentation.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the timely and accurate completion of all monthly financial management information used by Finance and Accounting teams to help monitor and drive performance improvements
• Provide timely and insightful analysis that illuminates performance and trends as well as serves as early indicator of risks/opportunities to delivery.
• Identify and analyze underlying performance variances against forecasts, plan and/or prior year and follow-through on lines of enquiries/investigations as well provided recommended courses of action.
• Actively participate and support the monthly closing and billing cycles.
• Support the business by ensuring management and teams are provided with sufficient data, analysis and support for plans, forecasts, and business initiatives to enable performance delivery and enhanced decision-making.
• Assist in determining the functional reporting needs and requirements and review data integrity.
• Identify and resolve escalations or complex issues with strong emphasis on associated patterns, trends, and root cause analysis.
• Work independently to analyze various measurements to identify front-tier performance improvement opportunities.
• Develop reports and dashboards for front-tier performance metrics.

Redpath Canada Limited is committed to an environment that is barrier free.  If you require accommodation during the hiring process, please inform us in advance so that we can arrange reasonable and appropriate solutions.

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