Manager- Royalty Operations (3 Positions)

Role Responsibilities

Are you passionate about making a real impact in an important branch that oversees the levying and collection of royalty revenues that benefits all Albertans? Do you thrive in a dynamic environment where strategic thinking, agility, and collaboration are key? Royalty Operations, within the Energy Operations Division under the Ministry of Energy and Minerals, currently has three positions available for agile and results-driven managers who provide leadership, direction and oversight to their teams, developing innovative solutions to ensure correct reporting, assessment and timely management and collection of conventional oil and gas royalty revenues.
 
The manager positions report to directors within Royalty Operations. The first position manages the Royalty Accounting team to ensure timely and accurate gas royalty payments from industry. The second position is a temporary two-year term that manages the Volumetric and Cost Reporting team to ensure production reporting is complete, timely and accurate.  The third position is a temporary one-year term that manages the Oil Royalty Assessment team which calculates the conventional oil royalty for the province and ensures all royalty volumes are delivered to the Alberta Petroleum Marketing Commission. All positions  oversee and verify industry compliance within the regulations specified for various oil and gas royalty regimes, and are responsible for resolving difficult royalty reporting, calculation and collection issues, communicating with industry clients on a regular basis, and providing input into developing relevant procedures and policies.  

Manager, Royalty Accounting (permanent): responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure all key activities related to Royalty Accounting administration are managed and processed in a timely fashion.
• Review and approve credit refunds, royalty deposit adjustments, collections arrangements, write offs.
• Work closely with Tenure and other business areas to ensure timely notification of leaseholder action and maintain efficient debt collection workflow processes.

Manager, Volumetric and Cost Reporting (two-year temporary): responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Ensure all key activities related to Volumetric and Cost Reporting with associated process support are managed and processed in a timely fashion.
• Review and approve royalty paid gas waiver applications, gas cost allowance adjustments, penalty reversals and removals.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders and work alongside business units within Energy and Minerals and across ministries to foster efficient reporting practices and develop tools that streamline communication and transparency.
   

Manager, Oil Royalty Assessment (one-year temporary): responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manage the calculation, delivery, collection and settlement of conventional oil royalty.
• Manage the calculation and administration of C* for conventional oil and natural gas.
• Ensure the correct conventional oil royalty is collected by ensuring all industry data reporting is in compliance with legislation, policy, and procedures.

Role Responsibilities cont.

Responsibilities of all three manager positions include: 

• Provide leadership and direction to ensure efficient and cohesive operations of the Royalty Operations Branch.     
• Ensure Legislation, regulations, business rules, operational policies and business processes are developed, implemented, evaluated, and continually enhanced so that the unit effectively supports business plan goals.
• Support Directors and Executive Director to set and accomplish Branch, Division, and Department goals.

Please click on below links to view the job descriptions for the two positions:
 

• Manager, Royalty Accounting - Job Description
• Manager, Volumetric and Cost Reporting - Job Description 
• Manager, Oil Royalty Assessment - Job Description 

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.

• Creative Problem Solving: Continually looks for innovative solutions to improve efficiency and service delivery. Anticipate, solve and learn from situations that occur in the work environment.
• Drive for results: The team has many critical deadlines that must be met on a monthly basis.  Strong project management and delegation skills are needed to ensure all tasks are completed accurately, and in a timely manner.
• Develop Network: In order to be successful in the role, the manager must build trusting and collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders. An extensive and diverse network of contacts will ensure that decisions made by the manager have had considerations for economic impact, technical relevance, risks, operational/ Implementation considerations, policy direction, industry impacts, and potential legal ramifications.
• Develop Self and Others: Provides clear guidance and constructive feedback on staff's career development and empowers team to enhance and develop their skills.

Qualifications

Minimum University graduation in a related field (Business Administration, commerce, Economics ,or other related field ), supplemented by four (4) years of related experience. 

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

The following will be considered assets:

• Experience in oil and gas royalty business including AER reporting and industry practices.
• Experience in production and financial accounting practices.
• Solid experience in drafting regulation recommendations, agreements, policy and strong decision making skills.
• Ability to analyze complex issues and consider information from multiple sources and perspectives to develop solutions and options.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills and the ability to present significant amounts of complex information in a clear and concise format.
   

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

Hours of Work:

• 7.25 daily hours.
• 36.25Hrs Weekly hours.
• 8:15AM to 4:30PM (Monday to Friday).

Location: Petroleum Plaza Building North Tower, 9945 108 Street NW, Edmonton. 

Other information: 

We have one permanent Full-Time position and two temporary Full-Time positions.

This competition maybe used to fill future vacancies across the Government of Alberta, at equal or lower classification and salary. 
 

Successful candidates will be required to disclose any business or financial interests, including the owning of shares or financial investments in the energy sector, to comply with the Department of Energy & Minerals’ Supplementary Code of Conduct.
 

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses, will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in. 
 

Links and information on what the GoA have to offer to prospective employees:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service - https://www.alberta.ca/advantages-working-for-alberta-public-service.aspx.
• Management Service Pension Plan (PSPP) - 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.