Senior Financial Analyst (ALA)

Role Responsibilities

The Ministry of Assisted Living and Social Services is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst.

The Senior Financial Analyst (ALA) plays a critical role in supporting the financial accountability and transparency of the Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) entity by analyzing and advising to ensure financial reports are in accordance with Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) standards. Assisted Living Alberta is a $4 billion+ provincial health agency in Alberta, launched on April 1, 2025, to improve and integrate continuing care, home care, and community care systems for seniors, people with disabilities, and vulnerable Albertans. This role centers on the development of processes that analyze, assess, and investigate, solutions to financial reporting issues impacting ALA. Success in this position requires a deep understanding and expertise of PSAB and implementing Auditor General recommendations. The incumbent must consistently apply robust analytical practices, demonstrate the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously and effectively communicate in an environment where objectives may be ambiguous  and timelines are tight.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monitors the accuracy of financial information, investigates variances and provides financial advice relating to ALA financial reports and briefing information.
• Works with ALA Financial Reporting staff to confirm and reconcile ALA related party transactions with other ministries.
• Examining, analyzing and interpreting complex financial data and making recommendations for improvements to enhance reliability of financial information.
• Provides advice on ALA working papers, financial information, notes, schedules and finance templates for quarterly, and annual reporting.
• Reviews year-end working papers to support the financial templates and ministry financial information to ensure accuracy.
• Reviews financial information for business case development for major ALA initiatives and coordinates ad hoc financial information requests from management with the ALA Financial Reporting team.
• Examining, analyzing and interpreting complex financial data and making recommendations for improvements to enhance the reliability of information in the financial statements.
• Liaising with the ALSS and ALA Financial Reporting teams around the consolidation of ALA's financial data into the Ministry of ALSS.

For a copy of the full job description for this position, please visit this link.

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.

Build Collaborative Environments – Collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict, encourages broad thinking on projects, and works to eliminate barriers to progress, facilitates communication and collaboration, anticipates and reduces conflict at the outset, credits others and gets talent recognized and promotes collaboration and commitment.

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.

Systems 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. 
 

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.

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.

Qualifications

Required:

• University degree in a related field plus 5 years progressively responsible related experience. Equivalences maybe considered.
• Professional accounting designation (CPA/CA/CMA/CGA)

Assets:

• Experience and in-depth knowledge of financial reporting, financial administration and financial modeling processes.
• Experience in analyzing and interpreting complex financial data.
• Ability to make recommendations for improvements to enhance the reliability of information in the financial statements.
• Proficiency in the use of financial software (e.g. Excel, SAP/1GX, etc.)
• Supervisory experience.

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 should indicate 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
• Public Service Pension Plan (PSPP) – https://www.pspp.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