OPG Professional Trainee - Finance

LI-Hybrid

Status : Regular Full Time

Working Conditions : Hybrid Working Environment

Education Level : 4-Year University Degree

Base Location : Oshawa, ON

Temporary Work Location : Courtice, ON

Shifts(s) : Days

Travel : Yes- 10%

Deadline to Apply : July 4th, 2024

Electrify your career and help build a brighter tomorrow.

Every generation has a challenge that defines them. At OPG, we are calling on all innovators, disruptors, thought leaders and change-makers. Join us to electrify life in one generation and build a sustainable future powered by our electricity, our ideas, and our people. Join OPG and make history.

Whether you work in the skilled trades or are a business professional, a career at OPG is an opportunity to electrify your life on and off the job.

ACCOMMODATIONS

OPG is committed to fostering an inclusive, equitable, and accessible environment where all employees feel valued, respected, and supported. If you require accommodation during the application or interview process, please advise us as soon as possible so appropriate arrangements can be made.

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This position is moving to OPG Corporate Headquarters : In Summer 2025, OPG will officially welcome employees to our new Corporate Headquarters located at 1908 Colonel Sam Drive, Oshawa, Ontario. This new space will enable teamwork, collaboration and innovation that will help us to achieve our mission to electrify life in one generation. This position will be temporarily based in Courtice, ON until the move to Headquarters in the Summer of 2025.

JOB OVERVIEW

Ontario Power Generation (OPG) is looking for a dynamic, strategic and results-driven professional to join our team in the role of  OPG Professional Trainee - Finance.

Reporting to the Financial Controller, this position will ensure OPG’s compliance with accounting standards and will bring in-depth and wide-ranging knowledge of financial management systems, programs, and practices. The successful candidate must bring business acumen and strong analytical skills.

This is a 24-month developmental role which will provide the successful candidate full experience requirements to satisfy the MP3 Financial Analyst requirements.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Provides management reports utilizing financial systems and other inputs and assists clients in interpretation of financial and operational results to enable decision making
• Develops and maintains professional relationships with key stakeholders to support operations, major projects and forecasting. Acts as a specific point of contact (SPOC) to clients.
• Analyzes Operating, Maintenance & Administrative (OM&A) costs, capital expenditures and budgets and forecasts to enable decision making.
• Assists in the development of policies, procedures and guidelines through research, analysis and input from stakeholders. Support related training, if required. in the area of general accounting practices.
• Ensures the integrity of the decision support process through support for the preparation and review of business case summaries.
• Gives assistance to systems users on issues related to the scope of management system development, operation, and maintenance.
• Prepares monthly, quarterly, and annual period end journal entries and financial reporting for major projects, programs and accounts in the support of in-service forecast and budget within assigned area of responsibility.
• Participates in the development and implementation of financial information systems and procedures.
• Reviews accounting practices and provides a due diligence assessment as to the accuracy, consistency and appropriateness of analysis and conclusions being reached.

EDUCATION

QUALIFICATIONS

The successful candidate will exhibit uncompromising integrity and commitment to upholding corporate values, and the OPG Code of Business Conduct.

What Makes a Career at OPG Different?

As Ontario’s largest clean energy generator, we’re building, expanding, and innovating the equipment and technology that keeps Ontario powered with clean, reliable energy.

At OPG, our values are our strengths. They are fundamental truths about our organization that don’t change :

Safety – it’s our business

Integrity – always lead with integrity

Excellence – never satisfied with good enough

Inclusion – working together for powerful outcomes

Innovation - creativity accelerates possibility

Here's why OPG might just be the ideal workplace for you :

Our promise to you :

Are you ready to start a career that has the power to electrify life on and off the job? Apply now.

APPLICATION PROCESS

Please submit your application  online at by 11 : 59 PM E.S.T. , July 4th, 2024. OPG thanks all those who apply; however, only candidates considered for an interview will be contacted.

OPG is committed to employment equity. As such, we encourage applicants from equity-seeking communities (Indigenous Peoples, racialized persons, persons with disabilities, and women). We strongly believe that alleviating the under-representation of equity-seeking individuals will create a stronger OPG team and allow us to better serve the needs of our diverse communities.

In order to fulfill the above-mentioned purpose, priority in hiring may be given to qualified persons who self-identify as a member of equity-seeking groups as identified in the application process. This initiative constitutes a special program under the Human Rights Code / Canadian Human Rights Act.