Accounting Specialist (Data Analytics, Financial Reporting & Insights)

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

87,200 - 106,600

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

10%

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

Join our team and be part of the excitement.

We are seeking a highly skilled, talented and detail-oriented Accounting Specialist in the Finance Claims, IT & Fleet team to join an innovative environment where creativity knows no bound.

As a key member of this dynamic team, you will play a crucial role in building and executing processes for complex reporting and forecasting activities, as well as supporting decision-making, and driving multiple process enhancements. Your expertise will be pivotal in simplifying, standardizing and improving key processes.

If you are passionate about making a difference, thrive on challenges and want to work with a team that value fun as much as hard work, this is the opportunity for you. Embrace the energy, ignite your passion and let’s create something extraordinary together.

In this role, your activities will relate to large-scale projects that have impacts on Intact’s Claims department.

We are aiming to find and develop a candidate that will work alongside the Manager leading those activities for the Finance Claims, IT & Fleetteam and will be involved in various streams of the projects where the team’s expertise is required.

In your new role, you will act as a key stakeholder to make sure that the team can produce high quality deliverable and assume the expected leadership in these initiatives.

This is a full-time permanent position that can be based in Montreal, Laval, Toronto or St-Hyacinthe.

You will succeed at what you do because

• You are concise and a specialist in complex problem solving.
• You drive for continuous improvement and challenge status quo.
• You demonstrate an understanding of financial reporting and an ability to provide additional insight through data analysis.
• You are truly versatile, ingenious, and innovative.
• You show initiative, interest to learn and to understand processes.
• You are an ace of teamwork, interpersonal skills, communication, and tact.
• You have a great ability to organize and prioritize workload.
  

What you will accomplish with us:

• Financial Reporting for Project Portfolio:Gather, understand, reconcile the necessary operational, financial and project-specific data.Help develop innovative and creative solutions (tools, models, processes) to identify key performance trends and improvement opportunities, address complex matters and ensure compliance. Provide insights, analysis, modelling, tools, and business support to measure and track benefits of projects and initiatives and maximize productivity.Participate to project management meetings;Collaboration with the Financial Planning & Analysis team to ensure alignment and to adequately capture project benefits;Present key findings to diverse stakeholders.

• Process Improvement:Support initiatives to enhance financial reporting and addressing business challenges and needs.Gain a detailed understanding of the context and need of the various stakeholders involved in the activities/initiatives.Propose, implement, and test innovative solutions to streamline operations and enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness of reporting/planning activities related to project monitoring and corporate fleet management.

• Collaboration:Work closely with multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment.Foster strong relationships across teams to drive collaborative success.

• Other activities:Support the National Fleet team and strategy, helping provide process and performance insight and optimization. This includes evolving the climate strategy and execution, providing insightful analysis to minimize the cost and maximize the efficiency of the fleet with high customer satisfaction.Provide accounting support to the National Fleet team.
  

What you will bring:

• Professional accounting or finance designation
• Post-secondary education in Finance or Accounting – is required
• 5+ yrs of experience including experience in financial/data analysis and preparation of written reports of various forms
• Past experience with project management activities, considered an asset
• Excellent proficiency with Excel
• Proficiency with advanced analysis and visualization tools (Power BI, Power Query, Python, etc.)
• Demonstrated experience in a fast learning environment requiring agility and adaptability to change
• Discipline, autonomy and professionalism
• Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
• Can interact with various people at all levels of the organization, including management and some external stakeholders
• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
• No work experience in Canada required, but must have authorization to work in Canada.

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Il s'agit d'un nouveau rôle au sein de notre équipe en pleine croissance | This role is a new member of our growing team.