Industry: Energy
Rate: $50-70/hr

Overview

Our Calgary based client is a leader in its field of renewable energy.  They are currently looking for a Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting to join their corporate finance team.  This is a 10-month contract role reporting to the Director. 

Responsibilities:  

The Senior Analyst, Financial Reporting is primarily accountable for maintaining quality and compliance across financial statements of our clients’ entities that are subject to general purpose audits, including management’s discussion and analysis as well as to maintain related disclosures, and advise on select complex accounting issues arising from business transactions and new accounting pronouncements.

Specific duties include:

• Prepares the financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis on a quarterly basis, in line with IFRS and securities regulation requirements
• Coordinates the provision of required information for disclosure from information providers throughout the organization, consolidates similar information that arises from various sources and analyses and reconciles contradictory information
• Ensures consistency of format, style, writing and contents (quantitative and qualitative) across the documents and in line with polices and practices
• Recommends and implements new disclosures associated with new standards or new business activities, in line with IFRS, securities requirements and best practices
• Coordinates internal review processes on the documents, completes relevant checklists and ensures queries are resolved in a timely manner, as well as liaise with auditors to address any comment arising from their work
• Coordinate reporting efforts with communications, investor relations, French translation and corporate secretary teams
• Coordinate and review the preparation of financial statements and pension plans that are subject to audit (internal staffing and scheduling and coordination with auditors)
• Prepares the deferred development project cost balances on a quarterly basis for accuracy and completeness
• Responsible for the assessment of existing and new leases to evaluate CPI escalations and lease liability re measurements in compliance with IFRS
• Quantitative consistency with information provided or historical information for comparatives, across the documents, ensuring mathematical and cross-referential accuracy and completeness
• Compliance with IFRS disclosure requirements, accounting policies and securities regulation

Requirements:

• CPA designation
• Ideally 1-4 years post designation experience with public companies
• Knowledge of IFRS
• Knowledge of securities regulations and processes as it pertains to MD&A and financial statement filings
• Demonstrated ability to apply IFRS and regulatory knowledge to the preparation of financial documents for disclosure
• Excellent writing skills

To apply, please email us your resume, attached, in confidence to mike.buckner@roneta.com.  Please include the title of this position in the subject line.  We prefer resume files as .doc or .rtf; pdf acceptable.