Financial Business Analyst
Full Time
Location: Montreal

Our large banking client is looking for a Financial Business Analyst with an accounting background to work on projects related to accounting systems

Responsibilities

• The financial Business Analyst has broad-based responsibilities for the functional design, specification and deployment of Finance Systems and Process changes initiatives at both a Legal Entity and IHC level. The candidate will work as a team member of projects. General responsibilities include:
• Primarily support the application of the accounting policy and validation of Chart of Accounts (CoA) in North America Region (NAR) Finance General Ledger to meet financial and regulatory reporting requirements under FCOO FIP governance.
• Elicit, analyze, and document user requirements and business processes.
• Undertake data assessment, data gap analysis and remediation.
• Implement Operational Accounting schemas throughout product lifecycle.
• Develop functional specification, requirements memo for IT development.
• Plan and manage User Acceptance Testing and migration testing up to successful delivery of end-product or remediation solution.
• Manage issues and escalate effectively.
• Ensure on-time quality delivery of projects and tasks assigned.
• Participate in project planning and cost estimates.
• Facilitate working group meetings with effective presentation materials and documentation; prepare agendas, document-meeting outcomes and communicate to stakeholders and management
• Support enhancement efforts of the overall control environment, including upstream processes and controls.

Required Qualifications

• Previous Business Analysis experience
• Must have an accounting background and experience with accounting systems
• Excellent English communications skills
• Being able to work under pressure in a challenging environment and to deal with confrontational situations. Able to manage relationships and negotiate to convince and find consensus.
• Proactive in rearranging priorities and solving issues are requested

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Additional pay:

• Bonus pay

Benefits:

• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• RRSP match

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work remotely:

• Temporarily due to COVID-19