Capital Analyst

Reporting directly to the Director of Operations the Capital Analyst holds a pivotal role in supporting and overseeing the end-to-end capital planning process across the entire Western Canada Region. This function is critical to ensuring the efficient and strategic allocation of capital funds. The Capital Analyst will be a key liaison collaborating closely with operational and functional leaders throughout the company to gather comprehensive input meticulously review proposed capital fund allocations and ensure alignment with organizational objectives and financial prudence. Furthermore this role is essential for the effective management of approved budgets executing necessary transfers within the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and maintaining detailed accurate records of all active and historical capital expense projects. This position demands a highly organized detail-oriented individual with strong analytical and communication skills operating effectively within a fast-paced high-pressure financial environment.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

• End-to-End Capital Expenditure Management: Play a supportive but active role in managing the entire capital expenditure planning process spanning from the initial project inception and planning stages through to final fund disbursement. A core focus is ensuring the efficient compliant and strategic allocation of capital funds across all business units.

• Stakeholder Collaboration and Integration: Collaborate extensively with operational functional and business unit leaders to gather comprehensive inputs justifications and forecasts required for the annual and quarterly capital planning cycles. This function is vital for fostering effective finance integration and partnership within operational functions ensuring capital plans support strategic business needs.

• ERP Budget Management and Control: Take ownership of managing approved capital budgets and executing necessary fund transfers reallocations and adjustments accurately and timely within the designated ERP system (e.g. Workday). This includes maintaining a comprehensive up-to-date and accessible list of all budgeted approved and in-progress capital expense projects.

• Request Review and Compliance: Meticulously review all capital expense requests submitted through the Workday approval workflow. The Analyst is responsible for ensuring strict adherence to pre-defined capital eligibility criteria internal policies and accounting standards challenging any non-compliant or insufficiently justified requests.

• Process Improvement and Discrepancy Resolution: Actively monitor transactions and project records to identify and resolve any discrepancies variances or data inaccuracies proactively. Beyond resolution the Analyst is expected to continuously evaluate current capital processes and proactively recommend and implement enhancements to improve efficiency accuracy and control.

• Reporting and Analytics Development: Provide essential support in the development refinement and execution of enhanced reporting mechanisms for capital expenses across the organization including variance analysis project status tracking and actual-to-budget comparisons.

• Business Unit Support: Serve as a primary point of contact for Business Units providing expert guidance clarification and resolution for inquiries related to capital requests budget status and future capital needs.

• Ad-hoc Reporting and Analysis: Undertake various ad-hoc reporting and analytics tasks as required to support organizational strategic objectives investment decisions and financial forecasting.

Knowledge Skills Abilities and Competencies:

• Education: A relevant post-secondary degree is preferred ideally in Business Administration Finance or Accounting. A professional certification such as a CPA designation is considered a valuable asset but is not a prerequisite for the role.

• Experience: Work experience in a corporate finance environment is essential. Prior experience with fixed assets capital planning or general ledger accounting is highly preferred.

• Technical Accounting Proficiency: Requires a solid working knowledge of accounting procedures particularly those related to the capitalization of assets.

• Data and Systems Acumen: Demonstrated ability to work effectively with complex data sets understand intricate financial systems and possess a strong grasp of data processing and reporting principles.

• Analytical and Problem-Solving Skills: Possesses sharp analytical problem-solving skills with a proactive and eager approach to identifying investigating and resolving complex financial issues.

• Execution and Resilience: Must be capable of managing responsibilities and executing tasks efficiently and accurately within a high-volume high-pressure deadline-driven environment.

• Organizational Excellence: Highly organized meticulous and detail-oriented with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities (multi-task) and prioritize competing demands effectively in a fast-paced setting.

• Communication and Teamwork: Excellent verbal and written communication skills are necessary coupled with the ability to work effectively collaboratively and build strong professional relationships across different departments and with senior leadership.

• Systems Experience: Prior working experience with major ERP systems specifically Great Plains and/or Workday Financials is considered a significant asset.

• Work Flexibility: Must exhibit flexibility and willingness to work additional hours particularly during peak planning budgeting and quarter/year-end cycles as dictated by critical business needs.

We thank you for your interest. Only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

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This hiring process may utilize machine-based systems to assist in screening and assessing applicants. Final selection decisions are made by our recruitment team.