Financial Analyst
Canada
General & Administrative – Finance /
Full-time /
Remote
About The Role
The Financial Analyst, Financial Reporting, plays a vital role in ensuring the integrity of Wave's accounting records. They will support Wave's internal management reporting, reporting to our parent company, H&R Block, and statutory and regularory reporting through recording routine and non-routine journal entries, preparing account reconciliations, managing various asset drawdown schedules, and performing financial reporting controls.
You’ll Make An Impact By:
- Owning month-end processes including product revenues, expense accruals, prepaid expenses and fixed assets. During month-end close, you will record journal entries as necessary, run system checks and perform account reconciliations.
- Reporting actual monthly results to management including a high-level revenue variance analysis to prior months, as well as detailed income statement and balance sheet variance analysis, investigating any discrepancies.
- Liaising with stakeholders and building/maintaining accounting processes to ensure accurate reporting for products and operating expenses.
- Supporting Wave’s external reporting requirements, including the preparation of financial statements for various legal entities
- Assisting with periodic internal and external audits by analyzing and presenting our financial information through standardized working papers and working with auditors as needed
- Supporting sales tax/income tax/business tax reporting and filings as needed.
You’ll Thrive Here if You Have the Following:
- 1+ years of relevant accounting experience
- Currently enrolled in the CPA PEP program, minimum of Capstone 1
- Exceptional MS Excel skills
- A solid understanding of accounting principles, concepts and proper internal controls.
- Experience working with ERP and cloud-based accounting systems - Workday experience would be an asset.
- High attention to detail and the ability to produce accurate work, while still seeing the big picture.
- The ability to meet deadlines with tight timelines (you think in terms of work-back schedules).
- The ability to work independently with minimal daily direction from your manager to accomplish objectives.
- A track record as a team player who can collaborate within the Finance team and with business stakeholders.
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
- Excellent communication skills with a customer service focus.
