About us:
Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada (Pauktuutit) is the national representative organization of Inuit women in Canada. Our mission is to foster a greater awareness of the needs of Inuit women and create change to advance women’s full social, economic, and cultural participation in communities in Inuit Nunangat, as well as cities across Canada where Inuit live.
Pauktuutit, as the national voice of Inuit women in Canada, has a key role to play in ensuring a gender-equality lens in policies impacting Inuit Women and in promoting greater progress in priority areas for Inuit women and children, across health and well-being, violence, and abuse prevention - safety, and socio-economic development. Our ability to do so depends heavily on partnerships across government departments, key funders, Inuit community groups and other stakeholder organizations.
The opportunity:
We are a strong team of individuals who work to improve the quality of life for all Inuit women. By choosing Pauktuutit, you are taking an active role in changing the lives of Inuit. Likewise, Pauktuutit recognizes your value and is dedicated to supporting you and creating environments that fit our employees’ diverse lifestyles. This includes benefits and rewards such as supplementary Health and Dental benefits; Cell Phone and Internet allowance, or when we are in office, allowance for public transportation. We value your time and in addition to paid vacation, personal wellbeing days, and recognition of public holidays, we celebrate holidays that recognize women and Indigenous people. Our main office is in Ottawa, Ontario, however, Pauktuutit believes strongly in providing a flexible work environment that embraces hybrid and remote options as critical to the future of work.
As the Financial Analyst, you leverage your expertise in accounting management and experience with not for profit to have immediate impact with our team. The role is important in supporting the financial elements of project funding; analyzing financial data, preparing reports, and providing valuable insights to support our leadership team and project primes in decision making to support our delivery on project commitments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Generating monthly, quarterly, or annual financial statements and reports; Investigates and understands the period and year-to-date variances (actual vs budget, forecast, prior year) in adherence with month-end schedule.
- Solving accounting puzzles by researching and reconciling discrepancies and ensure that the accounting is in good order.
- Researching, reconciling and resolving discrepancies in the general ledger, and subledgers, thus maintaining good accounting records.
- Maintaining QuickBooks Online; generating reports detailing paid and unpaid invoices and both accounts receivable and payable activity; ensuring revenue and expense accounts are in order.
- Generating reports monthly in the accounting software to keep track of accounts payable and receivables; reviewing them for inaccuracies and variances and make the necessary corrections or adjustments.
- Maintaining partnerships, networks and relationships with Inuit organizations, communities, and services including maintaining current contact information; and
- Assisting with maintaining partnerships, networks and relationships with Inuit organizations, communities, and services through our shared contact and interaction with different projects and outreach activities.
- Collaborating with the Manager of Finance to support project financials; provide support to project managers through the length of projects; maintaining Projects folder documents with accuracy for tracking and auditing and communicate project status to Finance Manager to alert of potential variances from plan.
- Collaborating with the Finance Manager to keep track of project records and documents by maintaining folders in the shared libraries and directories.
- Supporting department managers with by reviewing and preparing project reports, monitoring cashflows, assists with funder templates and requests; analyses project financials and ensures managers have understanding of same.
- Providing technical support to department managers by preparing, reviewing and monitoring project reports and cashflows, assists with the creation of budget templates to match funders specific needs.
- Communicating with managers on project performance and or variances to maintain a shared understanding of project financial outcome.
- Assisting with preparation of working papers to support audit schedule requirements; assisting in gathering information to support Auditors
- Assisting with preparation of working papers to support year-end audit requirements, and in gathering information to support auditor’s request and samples.
- Acting as backup for accounts receivable to record invoices and payments by entering them into accounting software including the date paid, amount, method of payment and any balance due.
- Preparing annual government remittances for HST annual returns.
- Supporting the preparation of working papers for assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenditure account, and the preparation of the year end audit by preparing reconciliations for assets, liabilities, expenses and revenue accounts.
- Completing ad-hoc requests for information to help internal clients to make evidence-based decisions.
- Other duties as required.
In addition to alignment to Pauktuutit’s core values, qualifications for success include:
- Post-secondary education in Finance, Accounting, Business or related field, or an acceptable combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 3 years’ work experience in finance and accounting, preferably in a not-for-profit environment.
- At least 2 years of experience in a financial analysis role, with data analytics, management reporting, financial planning, and analysis.
- Experience and understanding of financial modelling tools, financial and internal control frameworks, requirements, reporting and procedures.
- Data-driven with the ability to analyze and review numbers and trends to support key business decisions.
- Experience working in a program-based environment is an asset
- Strategic thinking with ability to think more broadly for planning purposes, but to also break down the details anticipating emerging trends and leveraging the right resources and tactics to execute the plan.
- Excellent Interpersonal skills to build relationships quickly, work with people across the political spectrum, and find common ground with those who disagree with you.
- Taking a project-based approach to work with strong organizational skills that reflect ability to perform and prioritize multiple tasks seamlessly with excellent attention to detail, with minimal supervision to meet the needs of internal clients; Resourceful, with the ability to prioritize, multitask and meet deadlines with minimal supervision to meet the needs of internal and external clients.
- Strong business and financial acumen to drive business performance.
- Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills to support partnerships and consultations with business leaders.
- Strong work ethic and sense of responsibility; maintains confidentiality when dealing with highly sensitive information.
- Ability to develop and maintain partnerships with internal leaders and external stakeholders in an influential and advisory role.
- Technology savvy with strong proficiency in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, MS Teams, Excel, Access.
Your candidacy:
Pauktuutit is an equal opportunity employer, with policies and practices intended to build an inclusive, accessible, and respectful work environment. We strongly encourage applications from Inuit and other Indigenous people. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, and regulations.
We are committed to accommodating individuals with disabilities throughout the recruitment process. If you require accommodations, please indicate so in your application.
We thank all applicants for their interest in Pauktuutit; however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted.
To apply:
Please include your resume and tailored cover letter in one document, indicating how your interest, skills and experience would make you a fantastic match for this opportunity!
