Financial Analyst

Business Unit:
Cubic Transportation Systems

Company Details:
Job Summary: The Financial Service Analyst will perform assigned financial services duties and daily reconciliations for project. The incumbent will work within a team of project reconciliation analysts and under general supervision to complete tasks required for daily project financial services. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority

Job Details:
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Perform Financial Services Processes to ensure assigned daily reconciliations are completed. This includes:

- Perform reconciliation and settlement activities as allocated, ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Prepare journals as required in performance of financial services for project.
- Identify and investigate variances between CODA and supporting reports.
- Manage reconciliation issues until resolved and streamline solutions. Investigate and resolve discrepancies in reports, if relevant.
- Ensures data transfers between various system interfaces and third-party agents are accurate, meet documented controls, and are analysed against expected trends and performance indicators.
- Ensure GL balances and variances to supporting reports comply with any relevant business rules, KPI or conforming balances requirements.
- Manage chargebacks, banking file analysis, third-party vendor reporting, patron refunds and operator queries as assigned with task performance.
- Provide variance analysis and aging information for assigned account balances.
- Prepare month-end and year-end reporting for assigned General Ledger accounts, with variance analysis and commentary for management review and for client submission.
- Continuous development of own knowledge of Product Channel Reconciliations.
- Identify system process improvement and champion automation of reports where relevant.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

- Comply with Cubic’s Quality Management System
- Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures
- Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organisations
- Comply with Cubic Human Resources Procedures
- Other duties as requested

Minimum Job Requirements:
**Qualifications**:
Desirable:

- Degree (or equivalent) in Accounting
- CPA qualification and current membership.

Skills/Experience/Knowledge

Essential:

- 1 years’ experience in reconciliations
- Previous experience in a financial or professional services environment
- Prior experience using financial systems
- Demonstrated ability to manage large volumes of data
- Demonstrated experience of deep-dive variance investigation, and the ability to produce quality commentary for management decision-making
- Advanced Excel skills

Personal Qualities
- High levels of customer support and service delivery
- Able to work well within a team, as well as leading a high performing team
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent time management skills to meet required deadlines and key performance indicators
- Eye for detail, with an ability to read, analyse and interpret financial reports and translate to other departments

Condition of Employment:
Successful outcome of a National Police Check

Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:

- Perform Financial Services Processes to ensure assigned daily reconciliations are completed. This includes:

- Perform reconciliation and settlement activities as allocated, ensuring timeliness and quality of deliverables.
- Prepare journals as required in performance of financial services for project.
- Identify and investigate variances between CODA and supporting reports.
- Manage reconciliation issues until resolved and streamline solutions. Investigate and resolve discrepancies in reports, if relevant.
- Ensures data transfers between various system interfaces and third-party agents are accurate, meet documented controls, and are analysed against expected trends and performance indicators.
- Ensure GL balances and variances to supporting reports comply with any relevant business rules, KPI or conforming balances requirements.
- Manage chargebacks, banking file analysis, third-party vendor reporting, patron refunds and operator queries as assigned with task performance.
- Provide variance analysis and aging information for assigned account balances.
- Prepare month-end and year-end reporting for assigned General Ledger accounts, with variance analysis and commentary for management review and for client submission.
- Continuous development of own knowledge of Product Channel Reconciliations.
- Identify system process improvement and champion automation of reports where relevant.

General Duties and Responsibilities:

- Comply with Cubic’s Quality Management System
- Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment pol