Corporate Financial Analyst
- Kitchener, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- At least 3 years of relevant accounting or financial reporting experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
A respected organization with a broad business portfolio is seeking a Corporate Financial Analyst to join its finance team. This role is ideal for an accounting professional who enjoys combining detailed financial analysis with broader business insight and wants exposure to senior leadership and a range of corporate finance activities.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Corporate Financial Analyst will support financial reporting, analysis, tax compliance, cash flow planning, and other corporate finance activities. The position works with stakeholders across the organization and offers the opportunity to contribute to both recurring reporting requirements and special projects.
What You’ll Do
This is an opportunity to join a collaborative corporate finance team where your work will support financial reporting and business decision-making across the organization. The role provides broad exposure to financial reporting, taxation, cash flow, financing, and business analysis, along with opportunities to work closely with senior leaders and contribute to process improvements and special initiatives.
Reporting to the Finance Manager, the Corporate Financial Analyst will support financial reporting, analysis, tax compliance, cash flow planning, and other corporate finance activities. The position works with stakeholders across the organization and offers the opportunity to contribute to both recurring reporting requirements and special projects.
What You’ll Do
- Prepare and review periodic financial statements, supporting schedules, and working papers for multiple business entities
- Assist with management reporting packages and materials for senior leadership
- Prepare and analyze financial reports related to banking, inventory, costs, financing, and business performance
- Support cash flow forecasting and analyze projected results against actual performance
- Assist with financing activities, including reviewing financial documentation and supporting loan-related processes
- Analyze financial results and explain significant variances against budgets, forecasts, and prior periods
- Prepare and support various corporate and indirect tax filings
- Develop financial reports and analysis in response to management requests
- Identify opportunities to improve financial processes, reporting, and internal procedures
- Process complex accounting transactions, journal entries, invoicing, and financial allocations
- Support payment and fund-transfer activities when required
- Provide guidance and knowledge-sharing to junior members of the accounting team
- Contribute to special projects and other corporate finance initiatives as needed
- Professional accounting designation
- At least 3 years of relevant accounting or financial reporting experience
- Strong financial reporting, analytical, and problem-solving skills
- Advanced Microsoft Excel capabilities, including experience working with large datasets and developing meaningful analysis
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills, with the ability to manage deadlines and competing priorities
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to clearly present financial findings and key issues to management
- High level of accuracy, professional judgment, and attention to detail
- Ability to balance detailed financial work with broader business objectives
- Collaborative, positive, and solutions-oriented approach
- Experience in a project-based or asset-intensive industry is considered an asset
This is an opportunity to join a collaborative corporate finance team where your work will support financial reporting and business decision-making across the organization. The role provides broad exposure to financial reporting, taxation, cash flow, financing, and business analysis, along with opportunities to work closely with senior leaders and contribute to process improvements and special initiatives.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Prepare and analyze financial statements, management reports, cash flow forecasts, financing documentation, and tax filings for multiple business entities. Support complex accounting transactions, process improvements, payment activities, junior team members, and special corporate finance projects.
Requirements
Requires a professional accounting designation and at least three years of relevant accounting or financial reporting experience. Candidates should have advanced Excel skills, strong analytical and communication abilities, excellent organization and attention to detail, and the ability to manage competing priorities; experience in a project-based or asset-intensive industry is an asset.
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Tax Compliance
- Cash Flow Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Variance Analysis
- Microsoft Excel
- Management Reporting
- Accounting
- Journal Entries
- Process Improvement
- Financial Documentation Review
- Communication
- Time Management
- Problem-Solving
- Attention To Detail
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Data & Analytics
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Statements
- Financial Reporting
- Management Reporting
- Financial Analysis
- Tax Compliance
- Corporate Tax
- Indirect Tax
- Cash Flow Forecasting
- Financing Activities
- Loan Processes
- Variance Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Microsoft Excel
- Large Datasets
- Accounting Transactions
- Journal Entries
- Invoicing
- Financial Allocations
- Banking
- Inventory
- Cost Analysis
- Payment Processing
- Fund Transfers
- Internal Procedures
- Process Improvement
- Senior Leadership
- Business Performance
- Project-Based Industry