Accounting Specialist (Data Analytics, Financial Reporting & Insights)
About The Position
Join our team and be part of the excitement. We are seeking a highly skilled, talented and detail-oriented Accounting Specialist in the Finance Claims, IT & Fleet team to join an innovative environment where creativity knows no bound. As a key member of this dynamic team, you will play a crucial role in building and executing processes for complex reporting and forecasting activities, as well as supporting decision-making, and driving multiple process enhancements. Your expertise will be pivotal in simplifying, standardizing and improving key processes. If you are passionate about making a difference, thrive on challenges and want to work with a team that value fun as much as hard work, this is the opportunity for you. Embrace the energy, ignite your passion and let’s create something extraordinary together. In this role, your activities will relate to large-scale projects that have impacts on Intact’s Claims department. We are aiming to find and develop a candidate that will work alongside the Manager leading those activities for the Finance Claims, IT & Fleet team and will be involved in various streams of the projects where the team’s expertise is required. In your new role, you will act as a key stakeholder to make sure that the team can produce high quality deliverable and assume the expected leadership in these initiatives. This is a full-time permanent position that can be based in Montreal, Laval, Toronto or St-Hyacinthe.
Requirements
- Professional accounting or finance designation
- Post-secondary education in Finance or Accounting – is required
- 5+ yrs of experience including experience in financial/data analysis and preparation of written reports of various forms
- Excellent proficiency with Excel
- Discipline, autonomy and professionalism
- Strong oral and written communication and interpersonal skills
- Can interact with various people at all levels of the organization, including management and some external stakeholders
- For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country.
- No work experience in Canada required, but must have authorization to work in Canada.
Nice To Haves
- Past experience with project management activities, considered an asset
- Proficiency with advanced analysis and visualization tools (Power BI, Power Query, Python, etc.)
- Demonstrated experience in a fast learning environment requiring agility and adaptability to change
Responsibilities
- Gather, understand, reconcile the necessary operational, financial and project-specific data.
- Help develop innovative and creative solutions (tools, models, processes) to identify key performance trends and improvement opportunities, address complex matters and ensure compliance.
- Provide insights, analysis, modelling, tools, and business support to measure and track benefits of projects and initiatives and maximize productivity.
- Participate to project management meetings.
- Collaboration with the Financial Planning & Analysis team to ensure alignment and to adequately capture project benefits.
- Present key findings to diverse stakeholders.
- Support initiatives to enhance financial reporting and addressing business challenges and needs.
- Gain a detailed understanding of the context and need of the various stakeholders involved in the activities/initiatives.
- Propose, implement, and test innovative solutions to streamline operations and enhance overall efficiency and effectiveness of reporting/planning activities related to project monitoring and corporate fleet management.
- Work closely with multiple stakeholders to ensure alignment.
- Foster strong relationships across teams to drive collaborative success.
- Support the National Fleet team and strategy, helping provide process and performance insight and optimization.
- Evolving the climate strategy and execution, providing insightful analysis to minimize the cost and maximize the efficiency of the fleet with high customer satisfaction.
- Provide accounting support to the National Fleet team.
Benefits
- Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model
- Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year
- Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more
- Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)
- Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance)
- Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.
- Defined benefit pension plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
