Financial Analyst, PPJV

at  Alberta Central

COMPANY OVERVIEW

The Prairie Payments Joint Venture (PPJV) is a joint venture owned by three Prairie centrals created to digitally transform and modernize payment services for credit unions in the Prairies. PPJV’s goal is to ensure prairie credit unions are competitive in payments and have access to efficient, modernized payments processing infrastructure.

EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS

• Completion of a degree or diploma in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field
• Working towards or intent to complete CPA designation
• Minimum of 1-2 years of relevant accounting and/or finance experience
• Detail-oriented with a high level of accuracy in data entry and analysis
• Comfortable with repetitive tasks and work
• Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify patterns or connections between situations that are not obviously related, and to identify key or underlying issues in complex situations is considered an asset
• Ability to communicate clearly and build cross-functional relationships
• Ability to work effectively in a complex environment and excel in ambiguity
• Ability to manage multiple and changing priorities
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (including advanced skillset in Excel)
• Data visualization skills are an asset

ROLE SUMMARY

The Financial Analyst will support financial planning activities, including detailed financial analysis. The Financial Analyst will provide expertise to the department for development of financial planning, excel spreadsheets and complete any ad hoc reporting requests. The Financial Analyst will be responsible for accounts payable activities and to develop and maintain monthly financial reports across the organization.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Accounts Payable
• Own the end-to-end accounts payable process, including invoice verification, coding, and following up for timely payments to suppliers
• Collaborate with vendors and internal stakeholders to resolve discrepancies and ensure accurate processing
• Analyze accounts payable data to identify trends, discrepancies, and areas for improvement
• Maintain accounts payable database
• Financial Analysis and Reporting
• Create and maintain financial reports for management, projects, and/or operating units
• Support monthly variance analysis
• Provide ad-hoc reporting and analysis of financial information
• Budgeting and Forecasting
• Participate in the budgeting and forecasting processes and all elements involved in the process – including resources and timing
• Process Improvement & Documentation
• Work with department staff at improving processes & procedures - including the analysis of processes, identification of issues, and recommendations for improvement
• Support documentation of processes within the department