Manager, Financial Planning

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, Financial Planning - Health Entities Unit, the Manager, Financial Planning - Health Entities, is accountable for overseeing Health's budget management and fiscal analysis. This position ensures consistency between all financial documents produced to ensure that the needs of the Ministry are understandable and easy to comprehend by the Executive Team, the Minister and Treasury Board Committee. This position requires an in-depth understanding of accounting and finance functions, including forecast modeling, budget management, and comprehensive knowledge of programs and operations offered by the Ministry. The incumbent provides leadership, coaching, proactive guidance and reviews complex financial information and budget/forecast submissions.

Responsibilities include:

• Provides leadership and direction to develop and prepare information required to support the Ministry's three-year fiscal plan within the parameters and direction set by Treasury Board Committee, the Minister, and Executive Team (ET).
• Ensures that briefing materials are available for the Minister, Deputy Minister and the Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance and Capital Planning to support budget announcements, Committee of Supply deliberations and other financial planning inquiries.
• Monitors and analyze forecast submissions against actual expenditures on a regular basis to identify potential issues and funding requirements.
• Ensures all issues that may impact the ability to balance the Ministry's budget are pro actively identified, with options and recommendations to address.
• Provides leadership, guidance and training to support career development and professional growth. A critical part of this deliverable is completion of annual Performance and Learning Plans for all direct reports and providing ongoing feedback and recognition in addition performance reviews and performance management.
• Ensures that decision makers (ET, Minister) are provided with timely and accurate analysis, and recommendations on which to base fiscal decisions in the development of the Ministry's budget.
• Ensure financial information provided to the Minister, ET, the Executive Director of Financial Planning Branch, and Director of Financial Planning - Health Entities Unit, is comprehensive, accurate, and timely. -This includes briefings for Treasury Board Committee and Committee of Supply.
• Provides input into various communication material, including briefings, news releases, formal email responses and budget/forecast documents along with published reports, such as the business plan and annual report.
• Oversees the consistent provision of high-quality financial services to the divisions by supervising and coaching the budget analysts who provide budgeting, forecasting and financial planning services.
• Monitors and reviews budget analysts entries into the government FATS system, ensuring updated entries are correct between the department and entities.

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

System Thinking – Takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them, takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities, anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives, works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values and works with others to identify areas for collaboration.

Agility – Identifies and manages required change and the associated risks, identifies alternative approaches and supports others to do the same, proactively explains impact of changes, anticipates and mitigates emotions of others, anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals and makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations and creates a backup plan.

Creative Problem Solving – Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues, engages perspective to seek root causes, finds ways to improve complex systems, employs resources from other areas to solve problems and engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.

Develop Self and Others – Plans according to career goals and regular development, aligns personal goals with career goals, leverages strengths; attempts stretch goals, provides feedback and openly discusses team performance and values team diversity, and supports personal development.

Develop Networks – Leverages relationships to build input and perspective, looks broadly to engage stakeholders, open to perspectives towards long-term goals, actively seeks input into change initiatives and maintains stakeholder relationships.

Qualifications

Required:

• A University graduation in Business with a focus in Accounting or Finance supplemented by four years related experience.

Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

Assets:

• Professional accounting designation - Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) is an asset.
• Extensive knowledge and experience in budgeting, financial administration, financial forecasting, costing theories, techniques and processes, including the preparation of complex financial reports.
• Experience in coordinating projects or programs, including consultation and working in teams.
• Comprehensive knowledge of management principles, especially related to human resources, financial planning, information technology, and communications.
• Experience in relevant acts and manuals relating to budgeting and financial administration, i.e., Financial Administration Act, Government Accounting and Organization Acts, Grants Regulations, Treasury Board Minutes and Directives, Sustainable Fiscal Planning and Reporting Act.
• Supervisory experience is an asset.

Equivalencies may be considered.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

A cover letter must accompany your application and how your experience aligns with the behavioral competencies of the role you are applying for. This cover letter may be used to assess your communication abilities.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. As well, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).

Candidates with lesser qualifications may be considered at a lower classification and salary. This competition may be used to fill future roles at the same or lower classifications.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening. All costs associated with the recruitment process including documentation fees and travel expenses are the candidate’s responsibility. If documentation is requested from an applicant, out-of-province applicants can obtain the documents requested from the province they reside in.

What we offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service – https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx
• Management Employees Pension Plan (MEPP) – https://www.mepp.ca
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information – https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-benefits
• Professional learning and development – https://www.alberta.ca/professional-development-support-directive
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool – https://researchapscareers.alberta.ca
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement
• Leadership and mentorship programs