Your Opportunity:
An opportunity exists for a Senior Financial Analyst, Team Lead to join our Financial Reporting team specializing in Cash and Bank Reconciliations. As a key member of this team, you will provide guidance and direction to Accounting Technicians and Analysts involved in the day-to-day operations of financial reporting as well as reviewing and maintaining various balance sheet account reconciliations. This opportunity is located in our Pune office working UK hours.
Your Key Responsibilities:
- Manage reconciliation of consolidated bank balances and processes
- Review journal entries and balance sheet account reconciliations
- Prepare complex journal entries and quarterly working papers
- Assist and support in the 5-day period end close process including identifying any issues and the action required to correct them to ensure that our financial statements are properly stated.
- Assist in the review and implementation of various business process improvement
- Assist with updates and changes to financial practices and procedures including corporate forms
- Ensure staff are fully trained and equipped to perform in a high volume, centralized environment
- Provide and maintain information as required for external disclosure
- Answer queries from Internal and External auditors
- Ensure compliance with company policies, practices, procedures
- Ensure key controls for financial reporting related to Stantec s SOX and internal control program are effective and operational
- Contribute to hiring within the Financial Reporting group and determine the best allocation of work given the resources available
- Supervise and mentor accounting technicians and analysts, including those working towards a CPA designation
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Your Capabilities and Credentials:
- A thorough working knowledge of full cycle accounting
- Proven ability to work either as part of a team or independently with a full range of staff from administrative to senior management
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple competing priorities and firm deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, mentor and support team members
- Effective communication skills, including written and oral English language competency
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
- Relevant experience with the Bank reconciliation process would be an asset
- Experience with Oracle or other large Enterprise systems would be an asset
- Experience with Blackline would be an asset
Education and Experience:
- Accounting Diploma or Degree
- A professional accounting designation with 5 years post designation experience working in a fast paced accounting environment
Your Capabilities and Credentials:
- A thorough working knowledge of full cycle accounting
- Proven ability to work either as part of a team or independently with a full range of staff from administrative to senior management
- Strong organizational skills to manage multiple competing priorities and firm deadlines
- Demonstrated ability to lead, coach, mentor and support team members
- Effective communication skills, including written and oral English language competency
- Intermediate to advanced Excel skills
- Relevant experience with the Bank reconciliation process would be an asset
- Experience with Oracle or other large Enterprise systems would be an asset
- Experience with Blackline would be an asset
Education and Experience:
- Accounting Diploma or Degree
- A professional accounting designation with 5 years post designation experience working in a fast paced accounting environment
