Financial Analyst - Operations
ABB
Financial Analyst - Operations
At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.
Your role and responsibilities
As a Financial Analyst, you will provide financial and control expertise to the Measurement and Analyses division "PAMA" in Quebec, benchmarking KPIs while working with other finance professionals to understand the drivers of financial performance, identifying trends relevant to the business. You will study business performance, including financial modelling to forecast the impacts and risks, and recommend areas for continuous improvement. This role will need to be able to work onsite in Quebec, QC to be able to collaborate daily with Plant Leadership. Your main activities in this role: • Leading the preparation of financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting documents and presentations. • Ensuring alignment with Accounting Policy, Internal Controls, and Assurance, maintaining proper audit trails and documentation for future audits. • Reviewing and classify income and expenditures accurately and ensure compliance with ABB procedures in general accounting practices, budgets, and policies. • Analyzing and balance general ledger accounts, verify transactions and journal entries, prepare schedules, variance analyses, and reports for management review. • Assisting with period-end reports, minor cost accounting responsibilities, and special projects, including month-end activities like account analyses, reconciliations, and journal entry creation. • Optimizing performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminating duplication, and coordinating information requirements.
Qualifications for the role
Benefits
More about us
ABB's Measurement & Analytics division is among the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of smart instrumentation and analyzers. With thousands of experts around the world and high-performance digital technology, ABB's team is dedicated to making measurement easy for its industrial and energy customers to let them operate more efficiently and profitably. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 8th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and support-ed. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage appli-cants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces. #LI-Hybrid #abbind
At ABB, we are dedicated to addressing global challenges. Our core values: care, courage, curiosity, and collaboration - combined with a focus on diversity, inclusion, and equal opportunities - are key drivers in our aim to empower everyone to create sustainable solutions.
Your role and responsibilities
As a Financial Analyst, you will provide financial and control expertise to the Measurement and Analyses division "PAMA" in Quebec, benchmarking KPIs while working with other finance professionals to understand the drivers of financial performance, identifying trends relevant to the business. You will study business performance, including financial modelling to forecast the impacts and risks, and recommend areas for continuous improvement. This role will need to be able to work onsite in Quebec, QC to be able to collaborate daily with Plant Leadership. Your main activities in this role: • Leading the preparation of financial reporting, business planning, budgeting, and forecasting documents and presentations. • Ensuring alignment with Accounting Policy, Internal Controls, and Assurance, maintaining proper audit trails and documentation for future audits. • Reviewing and classify income and expenditures accurately and ensure compliance with ABB procedures in general accounting practices, budgets, and policies. • Analyzing and balance general ledger accounts, verify transactions and journal entries, prepare schedules, variance analyses, and reports for management review. • Assisting with period-end reports, minor cost accounting responsibilities, and special projects, including month-end activities like account analyses, reconciliations, and journal entry creation. • Optimizing performance to increase productivity by developing automated solutions, eliminating duplication, and coordinating information requirements.
Qualifications for the role
- Bachelor's degree in accounting, finance, or business is highly preferred.
- 3 to 7 years of experience in a cost accounting or factory financial analyst role.
- Experience with computerized accounting systems and financial reporting software, including SAP, Oracle, or related financial systems.
- Cost accounting experience required.
- French is required. English is also required to communicate with customers outside Quebec on a regular basis.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills and proficiency with other Microsoft Office products (BI, Tableau, etc.).
Benefits
- Retirement plan
- Healthcare plan
- Accident insurance
- Wellbeing program
More about us
ABB's Measurement & Analytics division is among the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of smart instrumentation and analyzers. With thousands of experts around the world and high-performance digital technology, ABB's team is dedicated to making measurement easy for its industrial and energy customers to let them operate more efficiently and profitably. We look forward to receiving your application. If you want to discover more about ABB, take another look at our website www.abb.com. For the 8th year in a row, ABB Canada has been recognized as one of Canada's top employers by Forbes Magazine. Also named as Canada's Top 100 Employers, Montreal's Top Employers, Canada's Top Employers for Young People, Canada's Greenest Employers and in 2021 Best Candidate Experience Award (CandE Award), ABB's culture and commitment are to provide a caring workplace where everyone collaborates, feels valued, respected, included and support-ed. Also committed to ensuring that all policies and practices respect the Employment Equity Program, we aim for our workforce to be truly representative of the four designated groups; women, aboriginal people, members of visible minorities, and/or persons with disabilities. ABB will provide reasonable accommodation to the applicant with disabilities and encourage appli-cants to self-identify in the application process. ABB's Military Reservist Policy offers Canada's Reserve Force members the flexibility to undergo military training and activities while maintaining job security, seniority, pay, benefits, and privileges as ABB employees, including up to 15 paid working days per year for training, as well as extended leave for operations both in Canada and abroad, ensuring seamless career integration with our nation's defense forces. #LI-Hybrid #abbind
JOB SUMMARY
Financial Analyst - OperationsABB
Quebec
25 days ago
N/A
Full-time