Financial Systems Analyst

Location:
Toronto, ON, CA Halifax, Nova Scotia, CA Moncton, New Brunswick, CA Ottawa, ON, CA- Req ID:
25442- Jobs by Category:
People &
Culture, Finance and Corporate Affairs- Job Function:
Financial- Status:
Full Time- Schedule:
Regular**Description**:
**Ready to deploy your financial expertise?**
**Join our team!**
The TELUS Channels and Retail Finance team is a high performing and collaborative team that delivers exceptional financial reporting, planning and analysis to senior leaders and key stakeholders. As trusted finance partners, we are always at the centre of TELUS’s Channel and Retail initiatives.
**Here’s the impact you’ll make and what we’ll accomplish together**
**Here’s how**
**User Acceptance Testing (UAT)**
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional teams across TELUS to ensure new projects are tested and functioning correctly from a financial perspective (reporting, financial data integrity, accuracy, etc.)
- Identify defects and work with BT/Developers to fix before any projects go live into production
- Summarise and communicate project status, issues and recommendations to Senior Leaders in a manner that supports final approval for projects to go live into production
- Be available for early morning release day testing as required to sign-off on final release into production (~5AM EST a few times a month)
**Project Management and Business Requirement development**
- Be extremely organised to ensure that deliverables for all the various projects are met within the agreed upon timelines
- Leverage cross-functional relationships to ensure the interests of Finance are met and be able to lead/manage peers
- Develop business requirements to ensure financial controls and data integrity are at the forefront of any new project
**Ad-Hoc**
- Identify, develop and implement process improvements in the TELUS Channels and Retail team (including both Finance and Business unit initiatives)
- Provide support and ad-hoc analysis as required to support decision making
- Perform various financial month-end duties as required, which may include account/bank reconciliations, accrual journal entries, financial/KPI reporting, etc.
**Qualifications**:
**What you bring**
**Big Thinker**:
Strong analytical and innovative thinking skills with strong sense of ownership, ability to make effective decisions and deal with complex issues
**Collaborative Team Player**:
Able to work well in a cross-functional team environment maintaining inter-departmental respect, sensitivity to all perspectives and information
**Engaging Communicator**:
Able to forge strong cross-functional working relationships and influence all levels in the organisation with negotiation skills
Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to collaborate effectively and professionally with peers and senior management
**Proactive Planner**:
Strong organisational skills with the ability to scope out difficult tasks &
projects, set objectives and goals, develop schedules, prioritize multiple activities, and anticipate roadblocks
Able to manage multiple projects to meet deadlines and goals in fast-paced, ever-changing, and sometimes ambiguous environment
**Self-starter**:
High standards of performance and a strong desire to learn
**You're the missing piece of the puzzle**
- Minimum 3-5 years of relevant financial or project management/UAT experience
- Experience with month-end close work, including journal entry preparation, account reconciliations and controls monitoring &
remediation
- Accounting Designation (CPA) or working towards one
- Business Finance or Accounting related degree
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
- Superior attention to detail and accuracy
- Strong time management, problem solving and prioritization in a fast-paced environment
- Known for your collaborative spirit and ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment and build good working relationships to influence others at all levels of the organization
**Great-to-haves**
- Telecom/IT and/or Retail Operations work experience
- Working knowledge of SAP
- Experience with GSuite, especially GSheet
- French is an asset
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