Financial Analyst

BGIS is a global leader in integrated facility management services, and they are seeking a Financial Analyst I. The role involves providing standard transactional support within the accounting cycle, performing account reconciliations, and assisting in financial analysis and reporting tasks.

Responsibilities

• Provides standard transactional support for a process within an Accounting cycle or client account / product line
• Ability to complete and resolve assigned basic account reconciliations independently
• Identifies issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting
• Understand GAAP requirements relevant to the financial cycle or portfolio supported
• Basic understanding of audit and internal control requirements
• Maintains accurate and complete records for audits
• Gathers audit support data upon request
• Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
• Basic understanding of the interactions between financial systems related to the portfolio supported
• Able to work with IT and operational teams on basic system setups
• Simple data extracts to support the preparation of forecasts
• Provides relevant trending analysis to support the preparation of forecasts
• Responds to internal requests for simple ad hoc analysis with guidance from senior team members
• Support preparation of internal reports
• Provides support/input into basic business cases
• Single, high volume or multiple, low volume portfolios
• With standard transactions
• Some Concerned parties interaction with transactional level data
• Generate routine transactional data to support operational decision making
• Awareness of financial obligations of portfolio
• Supports delivery of contract/portfolio deliverables of a financial nature in a timely and efficient manner, in areas of less complexity
• Understand basic business processes and ensures compliance and ensures appropriate documentation
• Identification of basic issues or discrepancies
• Has demonstrated a curiosity for the industry and business which they support
• Has made initial connections with operational counterparts in support of transactional processes

Skills

• College/University graduation or professional certification (e.g., CPA, CMA, CGA or equivalent courses)
• Minimum of 1 to 3 years of related experience
• Ability to prepare month end journal entries to support proper transaction reporting
• Basic understanding of the interactions between sub ledger and general ledger
• Understanding of audit requirements
• Ability to identify issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting
• Ability to communicate processes and procedures within the team and to internal customers
• Ability to prepare basic memos and provide basic variance explanations
• Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
• Registered in an Accounting designation program (CGA, CMA)

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