Junior Financial Analyst

Role: Financial Analyst Junior
Client: Government / Public Sector
Duration: 6 Months
Location: Bowker Building N 6th Floor Alberta
Work Schedule: MondayFriday 8:15 AM4:30 PM Alberta Time
Lunch: 1 hour
Work Arrangement: Onsite

The Junior Financial Analyst will apply their accounting and financial analysis skills to support full-cycle accounting month-end processes financial reporting budgeting forecasting and financial analysis.

The successful candidate will assist with financial reporting activities account reconciliations variance analysis accruals and other accounting functions while working closely with business entities and internal stakeholders.

• Prepare journal entries.
• Assist with month-end reporting and financial close activities.
• Perform account and bank reconciliations.
• Assist with Accounts Payable (AP) and Accounts Receivable (AR) activities.
• Support business partner maintenance and capital asset maintenance.
• Perform variance analysis and investigate abnormalities.
• Review and analyze accruals and other trial balance accounts.
• Support customer collections activities.
• Analyze and interpret financial information.
• Assist with financial dashboards and internal/external reporting.
• Work with business entities to gather and disseminate information for budgeting and forecasting.
• Identify opportunities for process improvements and support their implementation.
• Perform other accounting and financial analysis duties as required.

• Accounting or finance background with experience supporting financial operations.
• Experience with journal entries reconciliations and month-end reporting.
• Knowledge of AP AR accruals trial balance accounts and financial reporting.
• Experience with financial analysis and variance analysis.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyze and interpret financial information.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder collaboration skills.
• Experience supporting budgeting and forecasting activities is an asset.
• Experience with financial dashboards/reporting is an asset.

The ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented Junior Financial Analyst/Accounting professional with hands-on experience in month-end accounting journal entries reconciliations AP/AR accruals variance analysis and financial reporting. Experience working with government or public-sector organizations would be an asset.