Team & Position Overview 

Corporate Finance and Control is a collaborative group that provides financial planning, complex financial analysis, reporting under IFRS, taxation compliance and business reporting for EDC. Our group is hiring new members to help us meet the needs of our internal customers and is looking for innovative people interested in changing the status-quo for the betterment of this growing and evolving organization. 

As the newest addition to our team, the successful candidate will have the opportunity to combine their solid accounting skills with a big picture understanding of business results and the related drivers in order to provide value-added and timely insights to our customers. This includes accessing and combining information from multiple information systems to analyze financial results, developing and improving internal and external reports, and implementing continuous improvements. 

Our team offers a supportive and collaborative work environment, with opportunities to develop skills and expertise through the wide variety of tasks available on the team.

Discipline Summary

• Establishes and maintains accounting policies and controls, fiscal controls, prepares complex financial reports and safeguards the organization's assets.
• Performs general accounting activities and maintains accounting and financial records and reports, including general ledger, financial statements, regulatory and management reports.
• Prepares, analyzes, and reports accounting transactions ensuring the integrity of accounting records for completeness, accuracy and compliance with accepted accounting policies and principles.
• Provides financial support including forecasting, budgeting, and analyzing variations from budget.
• Ensures all reports and disclosures comply with applicable government regulations, professional standards, and organization policies.
• Provides accounting guidance to ensure conformity with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and company policies and procedures and ensures that relevant accounting standards are appropriately and consistently applied.
• Develops and implements new policies and processes to comply with newly issued accounting or financial reporting standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Provides complex financial analysis and modeling to support decision-making and prepares data and input for reporting, forecasting, and corporate planning purposes.
• Creates and maintains management reporting dashboards and reports to provide strategic, forward-looking financial information on a timely and accurate basis.
• Identifies opportunities to make enhancements to data to improve use and understandability.
• Reaches beyond received data to review and analyze results with a critical eye for meeting financial reporting requirements and a willingness to challenge others as needed.
• Explains difficult/complex issues and, in a manner that fosters mutual respect, uses tact and diplomacy to persuade others to adopt a point of view.
• Prepares communications and presentations for senior leadership to share insights on both a scheduled and ad-hoc basis.
• Provides insights for financial and non-financial stakeholders through variance analysis, forecasting and long-range planning.
• Provides financial accounting and prepares financial statements, notes to the financial statements and reports in accordance with IFRS and approves journal entries and reconciliations.
• Participates in various system implementation or enhancement projects, including consulting, recommending, and implementing reporting requirements. Researches and interprets new accounting standards/guidelines to assess potential impacts on financial reporting and accounting activities.
• Provides advice on internal control issues and recommends and implements reporting enhancements.

Screening Criteria

• Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Finance, Commerce, or other relevant discipline.
• Professional accounting designation such as CPA or equivalent.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in business, accounting and/or financial analysis.
• Experience working with large, complex databases.
• Advanced knowledge of Power BI, Power Query and DAX.
• Advanced knowledge of IFRS, accounting and financial analysis principles and practices.
• Excellent MS Excel, Word and PowerPoint capabilities

Assets

• Bilingual in both official languages (French and English)
• Experience in auditing financial transactions
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, and analyze significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy
• Experience with queries, report writing, data visualization and presenting results using MS PowerPoint.

Compensation Details:

• Acct. & Financial Analysis 18: Salaries typically range from $92,355 to $123,140 annually, based on qualifications and experiences, plus a performance-based incentive

Location

• Export Development Canada is a hybrid work environment.
• This role may be performed from EDC’s headquarters in Ottawa, or from the Community Hub in Toronto, Mississauga, or Montreal.
• Relocation assistance is available for eligible candidates.

EDC's Commitment to Employment Equity 

EDC is committed to employment equity and achieving a diverse workforce. EDC actively encourages applications from women, Aboriginal peoples, visible minorities, persons with disabilities and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community. If selected for an interview, please advise us if you need any special accommodation.