Senior Financial Analyst to help implement an IFRS practice for a large financial bank - 45315
Job Type: Contract
Positions to fill: 1
Start Date: May 30, 2022
Job End Date: May 29, 2023
Pay Rate: Hourly: Negotiable
Job ID: 119091
Location: Toronto
Job ID: 45315
# of positions: 1
Duration: 2 years
Interview Process: 2 interviews- virtual (webex or teams)
Work Location: Remote, must be able to work EST
Description:
The Senior Finance Analyst position requires an action-oriented team player with strong accounting skills, good business acumen and demonstrated problem solving, reporting and data management capabilities. The candidate will report to the Manager Finance.
On your first day, we will not ask you to be an insurance expert. Rather, we will ask you to be open-minded, be motivated, offer your diversified knowledge and past experiences to this new world of insurance that you will quickly learn and understand.
The successful candidate is a strong and innovative professional accountant who offers working solutions to business partners/peers/management having strong relationship management skills and the ability to deal with changes in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
Key accountabilities for this position include:
• Understand and support the implementation of new IFRS accounting standards. Lead activities assigned per the business plan and ensure timely delivery.
• Provide expertise on implementing and testing of new processes, technologies and operating models. Provide effective accounting advice considering business, accounting and reporting implications, systems, process and control impacts, both at the subsidiary and the Bank level.
• Support the users testing activities through input to test strategies, plans and test cases to ensure that the business requirements are met.
• Act as key liaison with partners and external vendors and provide subject matter expertise on financial reporting and capital transactions.
• Establish, maintain, strengthen working relationships with appropriate business partners and stakeholders to support delivery of the objectives of the Project.
MUST HAVE:
# of positions: 1
Duration: 2 years
Interview Process: 2 interviews- virtual (webex or teams)
Work Location: Remote, must be able to work EST
Description:
The Senior Finance Analyst position requires an action-oriented team player with strong accounting skills, good business acumen and demonstrated problem solving, reporting and data management capabilities. The candidate will report to the Manager Finance.
On your first day, we will not ask you to be an insurance expert. Rather, we will ask you to be open-minded, be motivated, offer your diversified knowledge and past experiences to this new world of insurance that you will quickly learn and understand.
The successful candidate is a strong and innovative professional accountant who offers working solutions to business partners/peers/management having strong relationship management skills and the ability to deal with changes in a fast-paced and deadline-driven environment.
Key accountabilities for this position include:
• Understand and support the implementation of new IFRS accounting standards. Lead activities assigned per the business plan and ensure timely delivery.
• Provide expertise on implementing and testing of new processes, technologies and operating models. Provide effective accounting advice considering business, accounting and reporting implications, systems, process and control impacts, both at the subsidiary and the Bank level.
• Support the users testing activities through input to test strategies, plans and test cases to ensure that the business requirements are met.
• Act as key liaison with partners and external vendors and provide subject matter expertise on financial reporting and capital transactions.
• Establish, maintain, strengthen working relationships with appropriate business partners and stakeholders to support delivery of the objectives of the Project.
MUST HAVE:
- 5+ yeasr expereince as an Accountant or Financial Analyst
- CPA
Insurance exp- IFRS 17 - knowledge of the standard and ideally experience with implementation
