Financial Analyst 1- Building Projects, Properties - Vancouver, Canada - BC Hydro

BC Hydro

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Vancouver, Canada

1 week ago

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Sophia Lee

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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:

Conducts financial evaluations and studies for a variety of business related proposals, initiatives

and projects by researching, gathering and analyzing data.

Prepares reports and recommendations on financial policy, procedural and system changes,

operational and financial risks, safeguards, problems, solutions and impacts; develops draft
project proposals, budgets, business cases, proposed feasibility studies and pilots.

Liaises with business systems staff to discuss the viability, cost and projected timing of computer

system related changes as required.

Prepares and presents change recommendations and implementation plans for managerial

review; evaluates, tests and implements new or revised accounting policies, accounting routines,
methods, practices, procedures and systems; implements approved recommendations; and
monitors and follows up to resolve implementation problems.

Provides financial support and consultative advice to enhance management decisionmaking

through activities such as:
reviewing business plans and offering guidance on justification logic.

Assists with analyzing and reporting on business operational performance planning, results

monitoring, control and corrective measures, trend analysis, compliance requirements etc.

Developing and producing ad hoc reports, detailed analysis of accounts, interpretations, and

participating in various finance committee and other meetings to provide information on financial
accounting and control issues, management and operational planning, business justification
requirements, major projects, costs, revenues, billing, policy and procedural issues.

Preparing and presenting proposed recommendations to client financial management, working

groups or committees and explaining recommendation details; and by providing training, technical
- advice and guidance to clients on business management, financial solutions and alternatives.

Develops and prepares financial or management performance reports and financial ratios;

prepares management plan and budgets; examines financial reports and determines reasons for
- variances; prepares detailed explanations and breakdowns of variances.

Verifies and adjusts study data; applies statistical tools and analyzes results to determine

significant relationship information; applies statistical models; analyzes, develops and prepares
- financial forecasts, summary conclusions, reasons and explanations for differences between
- forecasted and actual results; prepares recommendations and supporting data, tables etc.

Recommends methods/techniques to improve analytical and forecasting processes and tools.
Organizes and ensures financial transaction processing, project activity, reporting and systems

are operating in an efficient, accurate, reliable and timely fashion; analyzes, controls and reports
- costs, revenues and variances; conducts variance analysis of actual costs to approved budget
- amounts; assists with variance documentation and explanations; analyzes, develops and prepares
- various monthly, quarterly, annual and other ad hoc financial analysis, reports, spreadsheets and
- summaries.

Prepares and discusses recommendations to maximize financial and business efficiency and

effectiveness; may administer a dedicated financial system.- Implements and tests approved new or revised accounting policies, procedures, routines and

systems; monitors and oversees targets, schedules and costs throughout the implementation
- phase of projects; monitors and follows up to correct implementation problems.

Monitors and provides direction to assigned project staff and/or consultants; monitors and

controls project timing and targets; reviews and verifies contractor and other project expenses and
- invoices prior to managerial sign off; participates as a team member on major complex studies
- and projects.