Ville : Markham

Catégorie : Other

Industrie : Professional Services

Employeur : BGIS

Who We Are  

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6, 500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.   Further information is available at www.bgis.com

SUMMARY

The Financial Analyst II (Global Corporate Accounting) provides complex transactional and reconciliation support for series of processes within the Corporate Accounting and Finance team.

KEY DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

• Be able to prepare and upload entries (both complex and non-complex entries)
• Handle the fixed asset accounting process, entries and reporting
• Completes and resolves assigned account reconciliations
• Prepares, gathers, consolidates and reports routine data
• Prepares routine monthly reports
• Create PO’s, and follow up on bill invoicing and bill payments in order to resolve outstanding issues
• Prepares and reconciles basic audit working papers.  Maintains accurate and complete records for audits.  Gathers audit support data upon request.  Documentation is reviewed prior to submission.
• Reviews results to determine accrual entries in coordination with internal managers.
• Prepares month end journal entries.
• Identifies complex and resolves basic transactional accounting discrepancies.  May require management involvement.
• Identifies and recommends process improvement opportunities at an account level following GAAP procedures.
• Prepares memos and provides variance explanations.  Summarizes findings and recommendations.  Provides input to process documentations.
• Main contributor to the Corporate Finance monthly review file, investigates and prepares explanations for variances due to monthly activities
• Ability to handle bank reconciliations by analyzing large volumes of data coming from various sources, and formats, organizing and bucketing the data accordingly and isolating reconciling items
• Alleviate any issues relating to any reconciling items that are not considered ‘standard’ (i.e., they are not as a result of timing of payments, or receipts but pertaining to some operational issues which need to be isolated, flagged and potentially followed up on)
• Provide intercompany and intracompany reconciliation support where required (assessing and analyzing cash advances, eliminations, and preparing and required clearing entries, etc)

FINANCE SPECIFIC-JOB SCOPE/DEFINITION

Portfolio Scope/Complexity

• Corporate Finance and Accounting department (interfacing with the rest of the business client finance staff)

Complexity of Accounting

• Transactional accounting across simple business unit(s)
• Ability to complete and resolve assigned account, intercompany and bank reconciliations independently
• Understanding of audit requirements

Involvement in Full Cycle Accounting

• transactional support for a processes within the corporate finance and accounting department

Preparation of Financial Information

• Prepares, gathers, consolidates and reports routine data

Reporting Audience/User of Financial Information

• Internal vertical and linear reporting

Audit Support

• Prepares and reconciles basic audit working papers
• Maintains accurate and complete records for audits
• Gathers audit support data upon request
• Documentation is reviewed prior to submission

Operations vs. Strategic Decisions

• Support operational decisions
• Impact financial reporting, Corporate Accounting and Treasury

Problem Solving

• Identification of complex and resolution of basic transactional accounting, and bank reconciliation, intercompany discrepancies
• Requires management involvement
• Identification and recommendation of process improvement opportunities at an account level following GAAP procedures.

Interaction with Client/Management

• Limited

MINIMUM EDUCATION:

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS

• Job-Related Experience: 2-5 years or more
• College Diploma or equivalent training
• Ability to identify complex and resolve basic transactional accounting discrepancies
• Knowledge of foreign exchange accounting entries including Fx on intercompany transactions would be an asset
• 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 data analysis skills leveraging various MS Excel tools to complete tasks relating to bank reconciliation
• Intermediate level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software (Intermediate MS Excel skills are preferred for some data analysis tasks)

Licenses and/or Professional Accreditation

• Completed an Accounting designation program (CGA, CMA)

At BGIS we believe that diversity and inclusion is a key business driver, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organization. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organizational success!