Budget Coordinator and Administrative Assistant
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About the Role
Telesat is hiring a Budget Coordinator and Administrative Assistant to support budgeting and financial administration for the LEO organization. The role involves managing budgets, forecasting, reporting, and coordinating pre-procurement activities.
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Responsibilities
- Manage LEO departments’ budgets by coordinating timely reporting, monitoring actuals against plan, and providing analysis for budget variances
- Lead preparation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and year end estimate updates
- Provide administrative coordination for pre procurement activities by organizing documentation and approvals
- Track and verify travel requests and expense submissions for team members
- Support financial and program administration activities including accruals, capitalization inputs, and financial reporting
- Analyze financial and administrative data, summarize findings, and present recommendations to management
- Support engineering management team in preparation of documentation, presentations, and meetings
Requirements
- Post secondary diploma from community college in accounting and/or business
- Minimum of 5 years of experience in budgeting, financial reporting, accounting support, or business administration
- Ability to work effectively as an individual while ensuring alignment with the team
- Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Workday
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Role Overview
- We are looking for a detail oriented professional to support budgeting and financial administration for the LEO organization.
- This role is key to ensuring accurate tracking, reporting, and coordination of financial activities across teams.
Main Responsibilities
- Manage the LEO departments’ budgets by coordinating timely reporting, monitoring actuals against plan, and providing clear analysis and justification for budget variances
- Lead the preparation of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts and year end estimate updates by consolidating historical actuals and inputs from directors
- Provide administrative coordination for pre procurement activities by organizing required documentation and approvals with technical leads, management, IT, Procurement, FP&A and Legal
- Track and verify travel requests and expense submissions for team members, ensure compliance with company policy
- Support financial and program administration activities across the organization, including accruals, capitalization inputs, financial reporting, long term plan updates
- Analyze financial and administrative data, summarize findings, and present clear recommendations and status updates to management
- Support the engineering management team in the preparation of documentation, briefing material, presentations, meetings and other administrative requirements
Education & Experience Required
- A post secondary diploma from community college in accounting and/or business
- A minimum of 5 years of experience in budgeting, financial reporting, accounting support, or business administration
- Ability to work effectively as an individual while ensuring alignment with the team
- Excellent analytical, organizational and communication skills
- Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Workday
Working Conditions
- Working conditions are generally comfortable typical of an office environment
- Resource is required to be working on site at Telesat's HQ a minimum of 4 days per week
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