Finance Professional 4, Corporate Financial - Vancouver, Canada - BC Hydro

BC Hydro
BC Hydro
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Providing clean electricity to 4 million customers takes a diverse workforce and that's where you come
in. We need your talent to help us build major projects to meet growing demand. To help our
customers find clean energy solutions for their homes and businesses and to be ready to respond
during storms and outages to keep our system reliable.

Working for BC Hydro is meaningful. And now, the stakes have been raised as we work towards a
solution to climate change while safely providing clean, affordable electricity to our customers.

We offer a healthy work life balance, training opportunities and career progression. We're proud to be
ranked as one of B.C.'s Top Employers and one of Canada's Best Diversity Employers. Join us as we
build an even cleaner B.C.


JOB DESCRIPTION

Duties:


  • Assist in the preparation and review of BC Hydro's consolidated financial statements including
financial statement note disclosures and other financial information, supports the consolidated
- month-end close process, prepares and/or reviews monthly reconciliations and validation checks
- in a timely manner, investigates and resolves any anomalies in an accurate, concise and
- collaborative manner for the following topics:

  • Financial instruments, including but not limited to, interest rate hedges, and foreign exchange
hedges,- Hedge accounting,

  • Post Employment Benefit Plans, including but not limited to, the coordination and review of the
external actuaries' calculations and analysis,- Regulatory accounting, including but not limited to providing regulatory account information in

response to questions from management and external parties and performs assessments
- regarding costs eligible for deferral within the scope of regulatory accounts related to post
- employment benefit plans and financial instruments.
  • Statement of Cash Flow and related financial statement note disclosure,
  • Debt accounting,
  • Other complex accounting, auditing and reporting topics
  • Leads the preparation of the BC Hydro pension plan annual financial statements and leads the
external audit of the BC Hydro Pension Plan financial statements, including but not limited to,- Manage the External Auditor relationship including the annual audit,

  • Monitor and analyze reporting and compliance requirements,
  • Prepare and/or review briefing notes, executive summaries, and presentations on key issues to
the Pension Management Committee,

  • Other Pension Plan related issues as they raise.
  • Monitors and reports monthly on Treasury's Compliance with Board Approved Limits set out in
the Treasury Risk Management Policy and the Liability Risk Management Annual Strategic Plan.

  • Supports BC Hydro's Revenue Requirements Application (RRA) and various other regulatory
filings to the BC Utilities Commission (BCUC) including drafting sections of regulatory filings
assigned to the Controller's department related to Post Employment Benefits and Financial
Instruments.

  • Develop and maintain effective working relationships with other areas of Finance and other
departments across the company (e.g., Treasury and Regulatory) and is the key contact for the

and procedures.

  • Ensure appropriate controls are in place for the responsible area, and proactively implement
changes to address evolving business requirements.

  • Prepare and/or review briefing notes, internal and external financial reports for the Executive
Team, Government, and/or the Board.

  • Focus on continuous improvement and developing a high performing process that is committed
to operational excellence.

  • Provide guidance on data extraction, analysis and reports using tools such as Microsoft Access
& Excel, SAP AFO, and Tableau.

  • Conducts analysis and prepares reports in response to requests from senior management for
work related to special projects, ad hoc queries, and special investigations.


Qualifications:

***- Professional accounting designation (i.e., CPA or equivalent designation).

  • A minimum of 9 years' experience including a minimum of 3 years with specific internal and
external financial reporting and compliance experience in coordinating with external auditors.- Experience with financial instruments, hedge accounting, accounting for post-employment


benefits would be a strong asset.- Experience working at, or with a rate regulated utility company would be a strong asset.


  • Proven knowledge and experience with financial systems, financial reporting, financial processes
and internal controls over financial reporting and preparing consolidated financial statement for
- large, complex organizations.
  • Strong knowledge and experience working with compliance and internal control models (e.g.,
Sarbanes-Oxley). Experience in designing, implementing, and monitoring controls in a SOX
- environment is preferred.
  • Proven experience reviewing, interpreting, and providing guidance to users of Corporate or
government policies.- Demons
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