Senior Financial Analyst, Reporting (Future Opportunities)

Opportunity

Fengate Asset Management is seeking a Senior Financial Analyst to support the Manager of Finance with accounting and financial reporting across a portfolio of operating investments and entities. The role also contributes to budgeting and forecasting, while working closely with Finance, Treasury, Operations, FP&A, and external service providers.

This opportunity suits someone who has worked in a financial reporting or accounting capacity within an investment, asset management, or operating environment. The ideal person is proactive, curious, comfortable in a fast-moving setting, able to balance several priorities and stakeholders, highly detail-driven, and confident owning their work end to end.

Please note that this posting is intended to build a talent pipeline for future hiring needs and does not represent an open current vacancy.

Key Responsibilities

• Support outsourced full-cycle accounting activities, including reviewing journal entries, accruals, accounts payable, bank reconciliations, HST reconciliations, and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Assess monthly billings, invoices, and revenue schedules, and add meaningful financial analysis where needed.
• Check contract, agreement, and system setups tied to revenue and cost recovery processes, including help with internal audit-related needs.
• Monitor monthly cash flow forecasts and distributions to institutional investors.
• Own the month-end close timeline and review financial statements, reporting packages, and variance commentary to explain actual-versus-budget results.
• Support year-end audit work by preparing audit schedules and working papers.
• Provide driver-based analysis and commentary on budget-to-actual variances.
• Contribute to FP&A work on the 10-year plan, including review of budget assumptions and recommendations that improve budget quality.
• Work with operational and business teams to prepare annual budgets and periodic reforecasts.
• Challenge budget assumptions across asset classes to improve accuracy and completeness.
• Prepare and review monthly management dashboards for senior leadership.
• Document processes that support compliance across funds in line with partnership agreements.
• Track, summarize, and analyze year-over-year asset management fees, including checking that investor fees have been fully charged as part of compliance work.
• Identify and recommend process improvements and efficiency gains.
• Support monthly debt and capital treasury activities, along with other ad hoc reporting tasks.

Requirements

• A bachelor’s degree in accounting, finance, or another relevant technical field.
• CPA designation and at least 3 years of relevant industry experience.
• Background in operating, investment, or project-based finance environments is an advantage.
• Advanced Excel ability and the capacity to build polished PowerPoint presentations.
• Solid understanding of the income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement, and related financial reporting concepts.
• Strong curiosity and interest in understanding key performance drivers and metrics.
• Excellent attention to detail and a strong grasp of accounting principles, ASPE, and GAAP.
• Customer-oriented approach with strong relationship-building skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate across all organizational levels.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver accurate work within tight deadlines.
• High ethical standards and strong personal integrity.

Core Competencies

• Authenticity: builds trust and acts with courage.
• Performance focus: takes ownership and delivers results.
• Stakeholder awareness: understands the needs of those relying on the work.
• Relationship building: works well with others through clear collaboration and communication.

Location

This role is based in Oakville, Ontario, with a hybrid schedule of 3 days per week in the office.

Equal Opportunity and Accessibility

Fengate is committed to fair hiring and to maintaining a diverse, inclusive, and respectful workplace. The organization aims to attract and retain a broad range of talent and supports equity, inclusion, and belonging across its teams, clients, partners, and communities.

Accommodation is available for applicants with disabilities. If support is needed, the company will work to meet those needs.

Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.

Compensation

The expected base salary for this position is $85,000 to $100,000 annually.