Financial Reporting Analyst

Our client, a top banking client in Canada is looking to hire Financial Reporting Analyst for their team with a contract for 6 Months with potential extension or conversion to Permanent. Hybrid role, 1 to 2 days/week in office (Wed./Thu.) in Downtown Toronto

Work Schedule (hours per week, start time): 37.5/hrs per week; 9am-5pm;
Monday - Friday. Potential for rotational Sunday shifts - Sunday shifts.

Job Description:

The resource will provide individual, team and channel/segment reports for supported lines of businesses, including but not limited to Retail Market, Wealth Management and Business Banking.

Daily

Job Duties /

Activities:


As a Reporting Analyst, Financial Reporting - Performance Reporting & Support, you will join
Finance department to produce performance, recognition and partner referral reports, investigate report discrepancies, and provide analytical support for various stakeholders. You will complete period-end reconciliation processes and required adjustment entries, and report verification. In addition, prepare ad-hoc analysis and reports towards senior management to support timely and adequate decision making. As well, you will verify the accuracy of business partner provided data and ranking results,
including, but not limited to investigations to resolve a variety of changing and diverse problems, in order to ensure that regulatory and reporting policies and procedures are met.

The successful incumbent will provide individual, team and channel/segment reports for supported lines of businesses, including but not limited to Telephone Banking, Customer Contact centers, Retail Market, Wealth Management, Business Banking and NSL.

Key Accountabilities:

Produce regular performance and analytical reports for various groups, prepare commentary of observations and analyses to explain month over month and quarter over quarter fluctuations, and produce weekly attestation packages

Review and recommend approval of commission and Partner Referral adjustment submissions. Prepare routine adjustment entries in accordance to reporting and process schedules, and adhere to regulatory guidelines and Partner Referral Program

Confirm and reconcile report results against information sources, to ensure proper control, reconciliation of systems, and accuracy

Utilize technical tools such as Essbase, Tableau, and Oracle to resolve business issues and produce reports with the use of pre-coded Microsoft

Access queries, perform regular entries on the internal spreadsheets and/or database systems and provide analytical support to various internal user-groups

Assist with the development of new reports, business projects/initiatives, control policies, and testing of new changes to ensure accuracy, completeness, and compliance with regulatory bodies

Assisting in the development and implementation of validation and attestation processes and procedures to support adequacy of source data and metrics

Conduct in-depth analyses of the outputs of operational risk management and reporting procedures to assess their effectiveness and identify potential weakness

Must Haves:

Strong knowledge of Excel

Experience with MS Access

Knowledge of Essbase/Smart View

1+ years of related business experience (Preferably in finance, or data analyzing)

Nice to have:

Smartview experience

Tableau experience

Some SAS experience

Alteryx experience

Understanding of computer languages - (concepts, algorithms, understanding of how programing works)

Soft Skills:

Team player who is detail oriented

Ability to adapt and accept change/ respond quickly to changing priorities

Analytical and problem solving skills

Strong communication skills, both written and verbal, and relationship building skills