Accounting technician Jobs in Airdrie, AB

Senior Financial Analyst

Location: Alberta, Canada
Job Type: Contract / Temporary
Experience: 7+ Years of Progressive Financial Experience
Professional Designation: CPA or CPA-in-Progress

Position Overview

We are seeking an experienced Senior Financial Analyst to provide advanced financial accounting, analysis, and reporting support within a large and complex organization.

The successful candidate will independently manage complex financial reporting and accounting assignments with limited supervision while working against demanding month-end, year-end, regulatory, and audit deadlines.

The ideal candidate will combine strong technical accounting expertise with hands-on experience in financial statement preparation, public-sector accounting, complex reconciliations, grant and revenue accounting, variance analysis, and audit support.

This role requires an individual who can own financial workstreams, independently investigate accounting issues, develop recommendations, and communicate financial information effectively to stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Prepare and review complex monthly, quarterly, and annual financial reports.
• Prepare and review financial statements and accompanying notes.
• Perform complex financial statement and variance analysis.
• Research accounting issues and prepare accounting research memoranda.
• Investigate and resolve financial reporting discrepancies.
• Prepare and review complex General Ledger (GL) reconciliations.
• Review journal entries and supporting documentation.
• Support and coordinate month-end and year-end close activities.
• Prepare and review regulatory and management reporting deliverables.
• Support financial reporting worksheets and related reporting requirements.
• Manage restricted and operating revenue accounting.
• Prepare grant and restricted-fund reporting.
• Reconcile restricted funding receipts.
• Monitor deferred revenue and expiring grants.
• Review funding proposals and agreements from a financial and accounting perspective.
• Support capital asset, payroll, banking, and general ledger accounting.
• Prepare year-end schedules, worksheets, supporting documentation, and financial statement notes.
• Coordinate internal and external audit requests.
• Work with operational stakeholders and funding recipients to investigate and resolve financial issues.
• Provide guidance on financial policies, accounting procedures, and reporting requirements.
• Identify opportunities to improve financial reporting processes, controls, and efficiencies.
• Provide recommendations to finance leadership on complex accounting and reporting matters.

Required Qualifications & Experience

• Minimum 7 years of progressive financial/accounting experience, preferably in financial reporting or an equivalent senior-level role within a large, complex organization.
• CPA designation or actively pursuing CPA designation.
• Advanced financial accounting and financial reporting experience.
• Strong financial statement preparation and analysis skills.
• Extensive General Ledger experience.
• Advanced reconciliation and variance-analysis capabilities.
• Hands-on month-end and year-end close experience.
• Experience supporting internal and external audits.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
• Experience working with enterprise financial systems and databases.
• Ability to independently research, investigate, and resolve complex accounting issues.
• Strong analytical, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills.
• Ability to deliver accurate, high-quality work under tight and time-sensitive deadlines.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Highly Preferred Qualifications

• Completed CPA designation.
• Strong knowledge of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS).
• Experience with public-sector financial reporting.
• Experience within the healthcare or public-sector environment.
• Experience with grant and restricted-fund accounting.
• Experience coordinating or managing external audits.
• Experience preparing accounting research and technical accounting memoranda.
• Knowledge of internal controls over financial reporting.
• Experience with government financial reporting processes.
• Knowledge of ASPE, IFRS, and GAAP.
• Experience with large-enterprise ERP and financial systems.
• Experience with complex financial reporting and regulatory deliverables.

Core Competencies

• Strong professional judgment and accountability.
• High level of initiative and ability to work autonomously.
• Strong critical-thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication.
• Ability to present and explain complex accounting matters clearly.
• Strong stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to collaborate effectively with finance, operational, and business teams.
• Ability to prioritize urgent and competing deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to make sound recommendations based on financial analysis.
• Comfortable working in a complex, deadline-driven environment.