Financial Coordinator

Job Description

Who We Are

BGIS is a leading provider of customized facility management and real estate services. With our combined team of over 6, 500 globally, we relentlessly focus on enabling innovation through the services we deliver, while actively looking for new opportunities that will enable innovation for our clients’ businesses. Globally, we manage over 320 million square feet of client portfolios across 30,000+ locations in North America, Europe, Middle East, Australia and Asia.

Further information is available at www.bgis.com

Summary

The Financial Coordinator provides standard transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle. Reviews Accounting Transactions for compliance and completeness against established requirements. Identifies non-compliant items and obtains required information. Can communicate with stakeholders pertaining to transactions.

Key Duties & Responsibilities

• Accounting
• Provides standard transactional support for a process within an accounting cycle or client account / product line
• Ability to complete and resolve assigned basic account reconciliations independently.
• Identifies issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting.
• Accounting Policy
• Basic understanding of GAAP requirements relevant to the financial cycle or portfolio supported.
• Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
• Audit Support and Controls
• Basic understanding of audit and internal control requirements
• Maintains accurate and complete records for audits
• Gathers audit support data upon request
• Financial Systems
• Basic understanding of the interactions between financial systems
• Planning/Forecasting
• Simple data extracts to support the preparation of forecasts
• Analysis
• Responds to internal requests for simple ad hoc analysis with guidance from senior team members
• Reporting
• Support preparation of internal reports
• Scope/Complexity
• Single, high volume or multiple, low volume standard transactions
• Interaction with Stakeholder
• Some Stakeholder interaction with transactional level data
• Process Adherence / Implementation
• Understand basic business processes and ensures compliance and ensures appropriate documentation.
• Identification of basic issues or discrepancies.
• Problem Solving
• Identification of basic issues or discrepancies
• Technical and Business Knowledge
• Has demonstrated a curiosity for the industry and business which they support.
• Has made initial connections with operational counterparts in support of transactional processes.
  
  
  

MINIMUM EDUCATION

College/University graduation

JOB-RELATED EXPERIENCE:

Knowledge & Skills

1-3 years of job-related experience

• Requires 2 to 4 years of related experience.
• Ability to prepare month end journal entries to support proper transaction reporting
• Basic understanding of the interactions between sub ledger and general ledger
• Understanding of audit requirements
• Ability to identify issues or discrepancies in basic transactional accounting
• Ability to communicate processes and procedures within the team and to internal customers
• Ability to prepare basic memos and provide basic variance explanations.
• Entry level knowledge of current accounting systems and MS Office suite of software
  
  
  

At BGIS we believe that diversity and inclusion is a key business driver, such that we never lose sight of its importance as it is woven into the fabric of our organization. We are committed to maintaining a barrier-free recruitment process by providing equal employment opportunities through recruiting and retention of individuals of all backgrounds. We recognize that promoting diversity is an essential component of our continuing pursuit for organizational success!