Senior Financial Analyst (ALFS)

Role Responsibilities

The Senior Financial Analyst (ALFS) plays a critical role in supporting the financial accountability and transparency of the Assisted Living Alberta (ALA) entity by providing analysis and advice to ensure financial reporting complies with Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) standards. Assisted Living Alberta is a $5 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 standards 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 job responsibilities include:

• Monitors the accuracy of financial information, investigates variances, and provides financial advice relating to ALA financial reports and briefing information.
• Examining, analyzing and interpreting complex financial data and making recommendations for improvements to enhance reliability of financial information.
• Reviews year-end working papers to support the financial templates and ministry financial information to ensure accuracy.
• Liaising with the Assisted Living and Social Services (ALSS) and ALA Financial Reporting teams around the consolidation of ALA's financial data into the Ministry of ALSS.
• Providing advice on working papers, financial information, notes, schedules, and finance templates for quarterly and annual reporting.
• Perform monthly reviews of ALA expenditures to identify potential issues and investigate discrepancies that could impact the integrity of the ministry's financial results.

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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.

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.

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Qualifications

Required:

• Professional accounting designation (CPA/CA/CMA/CGA) and 3 years of experience.

Equivalencies may be considered.

Assets:

• Experience leading quarter-end and year-end financial reporting processes, including preparing schedules, templates and variance analysis.
• 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.).
• Experience with and in-depth knowledge of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS) and Canadian Auditing Standards.
• Experience with using a large complex financial system and working knowledge of the Government of Alberta’s financial system (1GX) is preferred.

A cover letter must accompany your application and should indicate how your previous work experience aligns with the qualifications and competencies required. Please provide clear examples of how you meet the criteria and skills required in your cover letter. Failure to provide a cover letter will lead to the application being screened out. A cover letter will be one of the ways to assess communication skills of candidates.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. For example, January 2006 – June 2009 (part-time). This example is provided for illustrative purposes only. Applicants are encouraged to present their information clearly and thoroughly, using a format that best conveys their experience.

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Notes

Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week.

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.

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.

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