Recurrent Energy Careers

JOB DESCRIPTION

Company Summary

Recurrent Energy is a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc. and is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development, ownership, and O&M platforms.  Recurrent Energy is focused on bringing low-cost clean energy and meaningful economic development to communities across the globe.

With a strong track record of originating, developing, financing, and building nearly 9 GWp of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants across six continents, Recurrent Energy has established a leadership position in both solar and battery storage project development. With a total pipeline of 25 GWp in solar and 47 GWh in battery storage, of which 14 GW and 12 GWh respectively already have interconnections (as of January 31, 2023). In addition, Recurrent Energy’s services business has 6 GW of projects under operations and maintenance contracts, either operational or contracted projects.

Position Title:  IT HFM Analyst

Department:IT

Reports To:IT Senior/Manager – Corporate Applications

Location:Guelph, Ontario 

Position Summary

The main role of the IT HFM Analyst will involve helping business system owners and end users within the organization. This assistance includes defining business and operational requirements, as well as establishing systems goals, all of which are integral to the development of IT specification scope of work. The IT HFM Analyst should be able to customize the processes according business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Financial Systems Management: Reconciliation of accounts, sub-ledger and past accruals. Manage and support Hyperion, ensuring their proper functioning, configurations, and data integrity.
• Integration Expertise: Automate consolidated reporting leveraging multiple hierarchies and calculations. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and maintain data integrations between financial systems.
• Data Integrity: Monitor Data collection, Calculation, Translation and Validation to ensure accuracy, consistency, and compliance with accounting standards and internal controls. Use Dimensions to break data down.
• Process Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance HFM processes, workflows, and reporting through system optimizations and integrations. Collaborate with stakeholders to implement changes and improvements.
• Analysis of business requests: Deliver self-service reporting to the organization for internal management. Document potential changes and guide the stakeholders on how to better use the defined processes.
• Technical Support: Provide expertise and technical support to load and extract files. Troubleshoot issues, resolve problems, and ensure smooth day-to-day operations.
• Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation of HFM: configurations, customizations, integration processes, and issue resolution procedures. Support the creation of Data forms and templates.
• Reporting Enhancement: Collaborate with finance and accounting teams to develop and enhance Balance sheet, Profit & Loss, Cashflow and other reports. Automated external reporting gathering disclosures and financial information.
• Project Support: Assist in the planning, execution, and management of HFM projects, including upgrades, migrations, and enhancements.
• Security and Compliance: Implement and maintain HFM security controls, user access permissions, and compliance measures within financial systems.
• Vendor Collaboration: Collaborate with software vendors and service providers to address system-related issues, enhancements, and updates.
• Training and User Adoption: Provide training and user support to ensure effective utilization of HFM systems by the organization's staff.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Information Systems, or related field.
• Proven experience (3-5 years) in HFM Finances/Accounting/Controlling analysis and management.
• SAP FICO and consolidation experience (+2 years). Certification desirable.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex system issues.
• Knowledge of financial processes, reporting standards, and compliance requirements.

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• 5-7 years of Microsoft Office Suite or related software.

• Ability to solve technical and operational problems.

• Working knowledge of communication technology.

• Thorough understanding of internet/intranet, including experience with specific network environments and protocols in use at the organization.

• Ability to produce and maintain necessary documentation.

• Excellent customer service and project management skills.
• Expected to work outside normal working hours supporting other region as required