Account Analyst

Account Analyst

Location: Calgary, AB

Contract Length: 12 Months

Pay Rate Range: $34/h - $49/h (depending on experience)

Schedule: 40 hours/week (8 hours/day)

About the Opportunity

We are seeking an experienced Account Analyst to join a dynamic finance team in a high-volume, fast-paced environment. This role is ideal for a detail-oriented professional with strong accounts payable and financial operations experience who thrives on solving complex problems, improving processes, and driving operational efficiency.

You will be responsible for managing complex transactions, resolving payment and invoice exceptions, supporting month-end activities, analyzing trends and KPIs, and identifying opportunities to improve controls, automation, and overall performance.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex full-cycle accounts payable activities, including invoice validation, coding, processing, payment support, reconciliations, and exception resolution.
• Perform and troubleshoot 2-way and 3-way matching processes.
• Investigate and resolve purchase order, goods receipt, service entry, tax, pricing, coding, approval, supplier master, and workflow discrepancies.
• Analyze transactions that fall outside automated processing and determine the root cause.
• Review and resolve employee expense processing issues and policy exceptions.
• Investigate duplicate invoices, duplicate payments, payment holds, and compliance concerns.
• Monitor AP queues, aging reports, workflow bottlenecks, and payment risks.
• Support month-end and year-end close activities, including reconciliations, accruals, variance analysis, and reporting.
• Utilize dashboards, reports, and KPIs to identify trends, monitor performance, and drive improvements.
• Identify recurring issues and develop long-term solutions to improve efficiency and prevent future occurrences.
• Recommend process improvements, automation opportunities, and stronger controls.
• Collaborate with Finance, Supply Chain, Tax, Master Data, suppliers, and internal stakeholders to resolve issues and enhance processes.
• Act as a resource for complex transaction and process-related inquiries.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Accounts Payable, employee expense administration, or related financial operations.
• Strong knowledge of full-cycle AP processes, financial controls, reconciliations, and exception management.
• Experience with 2-way and 3-way matching, purchase orders, GR/IR processes, and payment controls.
• Experience using SAP, Concur, or similar ERP and expense management systems.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot automated invoice workflows and processing failures.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and root-cause investigation skills.
• Ability to interpret reports, dashboards, and KPIs to identify trends and implement solutions.
• Excellent organizational, communication, and stakeholder management skills.
• Ability to work independently and manage competing priorities in a high-volume environment.
• Post-secondary education in Accounting, Finance, Business Administration, or a related field is considered an asset.

What We're Looking For

• A proactive, solutions-oriented professional who enjoys solving complex challenges.
• Someone who can identify opportunities to improve processes and increase efficiency.
• A strong collaborator who works effectively with internal teams and external partners.
• A detail-oriented individual with a commitment to accuracy, compliance, and continuous improvement.

What We Offer

Why work with Brunel? We are proud to offer exciting career opportunities from over 100 offices globally in 42 countries. Advancing your career takes time and effort – let us match you to your ideal position.

About Us

Brunel has a reputation for working with some of the best in the business. That’s what we continually strive for. Brunel provides the global recruitment and workforce services you need to lead your industry. With 50 years of market experience in Renewable Energy, Automotive, Oil & Gas, Life Sciences, Mining and Infrastructure, we help you finish major projects safely, compliantly, on-time, within budget and at the highest quality, so you can keep growing – anywhere in the world.