Description
Financial Consultant
Job Description:
- Develops, interprets and implements financial concepts for financial planning and control.
- Performs technical analysis to determine present and future financial performance.
- Gathers, analyzes, prepares and summarizes recommendations for financial plans, acquisition activity, trended future requirements and operating forecasts.
- Performs economic research and studies in the areas of return, depreciations, working capital requirements, investment opportunities, investment performance, and impact of governmental requirements.
- Provides project, service line or product line management, management consulting, and analytical decision support services or technical expertise for a broad array of financial and operational issues.
- Responsible for more complex multi-faceted projects and analyses across disciplines and functional areas.
- Assists in developing performance monitoring process and coordinating compilation, interpretation and presentation of monitoring information.
- Participates in the planning and development of regional, departmental and/or functional budgets.
- May be responsible for budget system completion, high level reviews and conducting area wide analyses for target development.
- Conducts or participates in complex projects where analysis requires an in-depth evaluation of factors.
- Regularly contributes to the development of new financial analysis concepts, techniques, and standards.
- Frequently contributes to the development of new financial analysis theories and methods.
Requirements:
- Minimum eight (8) years of financial analysis or related experience.
- Bachelor's degree in finance related field
- Considered expert in field
- Expert proficiency in PC based word processing and spreadsheet applications, including advanced functions such as graphics, pivot tables, macros and database management.
- Thorough knowledge of financial analysis policies, practices and systems.
- Extensive knowledge of several or all of the following: general finance theories and methodologies, discounted cash flow analysis, cost/benefit analysis, feasibility studies, large scale business planning, financial modelling and project management.
- Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.
Ideal candidate will have strong finance type skills, coupled with project management exposure.