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About the Role
The Sun Life Health (SLH) business within Sun Life Canada is a leading provider of Group Benefits and Health Solutions. SLH is seeking a Financial Analyst to join its fast-paced and energetic Finance team. Reporting to the Manager, Financial Controls, the Financial Analyst will play a crucial role in executing and supporting control activities critical to the Sun Life Health business.
Responsibilities
- Prepare account reconciliations ensuring they are accurate, complete, informative and meet Sun Life account reconciliation standards.
- Identify, investigate, and resolve differences in reconciliations in collaboration with business partners.
- Support internal and external audits, including retrieval of audit sample requests and participation in walkthrough meetings to discuss control processes.
- Validate, improve, and document key business processes and controls, seizing on opportunities to transform current manual high volume and/or complex functions.
- Participate in projects and ad-hoc requests as needed.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3+ years of experience in reconciliations, financial reporting and/or internal controls.
- Intermediate knowledge of Microsoft Office tools (Excel proficiency with Pivot Tables and X/V-look ups).
- A passion and willingness to understand accounting flows from source-to-ledger and relate accounting to business processes and transactions.
- Excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills.
- Self-motivated, results-oriented and flexible to changing priorities and timelines.
- Proven technical, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
- This role requires Reliability Status Clearance, including a law enforcement inquiry and a credit check.
- Must account for all activities during the last 5 years if lived or travelled outside of Canada for 6-consecutive months.
Skills
- Excel proficiency with Pivot Tables and X/V-look ups
- Frontier (or other reconciliation tools)
- SAP
Location
- Canada
Work Type
- Hybrid work environment
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience
Education Level
- CPA, other designation or diploma/degree in accounting is considered an asset
Salary/Compensations
- 58,000 - 93,000
Benefits
- 15 vacation days per year
- Flexible Benefits from the day you join to meet the needs of you and your family
- Pension, stock and savings programs
- Access to our Global Learning Centre, available 24/7
- Wellness programs that support the three pillars of your health – mental, physical and financial
About the Company
- Sun Life Health (SLH) is a market leader in the advancement of workplace mental health across Canada.
- Sun Life is driven by its Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives.
- Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful.
- We are honoured to be recognized as a 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 Best Workplaces in Canada by Great Place to Work® Canada.
- Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for #HybridWork 2022.
- Great Place to Work® list for Best Workplaces for Professional Development in Canada 2022.
- Named “Best Places to Work” by Glassdoor, 2021 and 2023.
Equal Opportunity
- Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds.
- Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to thebrightside@sunlife.com.