Markham, ON, Canada
13 hours ago
Intermediate Financial Analyst

ABOUT US

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With a combined team of over 10,000 professionals worldwide, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver. We actively seek new opportunities that drive innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manager over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia, and Asia. For further information, visit www.bgis.com.

OUR CULTURE

At BGIS, our culture is built on three foundational pillars:

Culture of Care: We deeply care for each other, our clients, partners, and the communities we serve. High Performing Teams: We go Above and Beyond to deliver exceptional services. INTEGRITY, OWNERSHIP, RESPONSIVENESS, INITIATION, VISIBILITY, DRIVE, and INTEGRATION are core to high performance. Unwavering Commitment to Sustainability: We conduct every action with a focus on preserving our earth. 

SUMMARY

The Intermediate Financial Analyst provides complex transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle and/or full cycle accounting support. Understands the impact of transactions on financial results and can be proactive to recommend necessary actions and can communicate with stakeholder about transactions, processes and analysis. Provides analysis for areas such as planning, forecasting, reporting and audit and process improvements.

This role will work in collaboration with all key BGIS departments to ensure full support of all activities and play a key role in our INTEGRATED approach to operating buildings.  

Opportunities for Development:   

At BGIS we are committed to the development of our people – offering them opportunities to learn and grow into various roles.  Success in the role offers Team Members the opportunity to explore various roles – some include:  

Finance roles for different industry workstreams On account operations leadership roles in both Facility Management and Project Management

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES 

Safety Ownership and Regulatory Compliance: 

Comply with all internal and external requirements including but not limited to environmental, health and safety, fire protection and mandated by BGIS Health Safety and Environment Teams and enforced by law. 

Accounting  

Intermediate transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle  Ability to complete and resolve assigned intermediate account reconciliations independently.  Identifies complex issues and resolves basic transactional accounting discrepancies.

Accounting Policy 

Understand GAAP requirements relevant to the financial cycle or portfolio supported

Audit Support and Controls 

Intermediate understanding of internal/client control requirements  Maintains accurate and complete records for audits  Gathers audit support data upon request 

Financial Systems 

Intermediate level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software  Basic understanding and ability to document the transactional and financial data flows between relevant financial systems  Able to work with IT and operational teams on intermediate system setups 

Planning/Forecasting 

Prepares standard forecasts (internal and external) with the appropriate back-up (including assumptions and calculations)   Responsible for partnering with internal stakeholders in preparation of standard forecasts 

Analysis 

Prepares in-depth financial analysis (recurring and ad-hoc) and makes recommendations to Internal Stakeholders 

Reporting 

Preparation of internal reports  Provide input and support for external reports  Prepares basic business cases and provides input to intermediate business cases. 

Scope/Complexity 

Single, high volume or multiple, low volume portfolios   With some complex transactions  

Interaction with Stakeholder  

Some Stakeholder interaction with transactional level data and for the purpose of Stakeholder reporting  Generate transactional data and ad-hoc analysis to support operational decision making, with recommendations 

Financial Management/Contract Interpretation 

Basic understanding of financial obligations of portfolio  Ensures delivery of  contract/portfolio deliverables of a financial nature in a timely and efficient manner, in areas of less complexity  Supports the monitoring of performance and assists in action plans  Seeks guidance on contract/portfolio financial terms and conditions for assigned accounts 

Process Adherence / Implementation 

Understand intermediate business processes and ensures compliance and ensures appropriate documentation  Can identify and escalate gaps. 

Problem Solving 

Identification of basic issues or discrepancies  

Technical and Business Knowledge 

Has gleaned a basic understanding of the industry and business which they support.  Has established professional working relationships with operational counterparts in support of transactional processes. 

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

Ability to identify complex and resolve basic transactional accounting discrepancies College/University graduation or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CMA, CGA or equivalent courses) Minimum of 3-5 years of work-related experience Ability to identify and recommend process improvement opportunities at an account level following GAAP procedures. Ability to communicate basic accounting principles to support procedures and to explain financial results within the team and to internal customers. Ability to prepare memos, provide variance explanations and input to process documentations, and write summaries of findings and recommendations.  Intermediate level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software

Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation

Registered in an Accounting designation program (CGA, CMA)

BGIS is an equal opportunity employer, and we welcome you to apply for a position with us! If you require accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact us at askHR. Upon request for accommodation, we will consult with the applicant in question and provide, or arrange for the provision of, suitable accommodation in a manner that takes into account the applicant’s accessibility needs due to disability.

BGIS est un employeur qui respecte l'égalité des chances et nous vous invitons à postuler pour un poste chez nous ! Si vous avez besoin d'un accommodement pendant le processus de recrutement, veuillez nous contacter à askHR. En cas de demande d'accommodement, nous discuterons avec le candidat en question et fournirons, ou ferons en sorte de fournir, un accommodement approprié d'une manière qui tiendra compte des besoins d'accessibilité du candidat en fonction de son handicap.

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