Senior Financial Analyst

Role Responsibilities

The Ministry of Technology and Innovation is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst.

Reporting to the Manager, Financial Services, the Senior Financial Analyst plays a key role in a comprehensive range of budget management and fiscal analysis services across complex governance structures for up to three divisions within this Ministry of Technology and Innovation. Working within the parameters of relevant Government Acts and Ministry policies and guidelines, the Senior Financial Analyst provides technical, analytical, and consultative services to teams within TSO, CS and DDD. This position plans and coordinates processes and initiatives for program areas, senior leadership including Assistant Deputy Minister offices as required for short and long-term fiscal management, and current year expenditure forecasting.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work with all stakeholders, presents program areas with viable solutions to business problems, manages issues with consideration for budget impacts, and ensures ongoing resolution of transactional and systemic issues.
• Focus on the development and enhancement of methods and tools to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the budget management and fiscal analysis services provided by the Financial Services team, with an emphasis on developing processes to describe, examine and evaluate solutions to issues facing the Division.
• Create specialized/specific analysis that provide evidence to inform decision-making (e.g., analyzing and consolidating numbers into pivots, charts and statistical analysis in Excel, and leverage AI‑powered tools to automate data preparations).
• Develop and present information related to financial analyses and recommendations to senior and executive department leaders.
• Prepares and reports the consolidated divisional budget and monthly forecast packages with detailed variance explanations and responds to ad hoc financial analysis requests while providing additional analysis to support innovation, efficiencies and strategic decision making.
• Provide financial advice/consultation to agencies, ministries and divisional staff regarding compliance with the Government of Alberta's contracting and financial requirements including the treatment of capital and operating funds.
• Prepare the Division's monthly capital forecast report in coordination with Strategic Planning and Financial Services (SPFS).
• Lead quarter and year end closes and accounting including but not limited to processing of accruals, interunit ttransactions, billing, contract commitment reporting and communication.
• Develop and deliver education, training and awareness workshops for departmental staff to ensure all activities are carried out in a prudent financial matter.

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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.

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.

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 – Integrates broader context into planning, plans for how current situation is affected by broader trends, integrates issues, political environment and risks when considering possible actions, supports organization vision and goals through strategy and addresses behaviors that challenge progress. 

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. 

Drive for Results – Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes, uses variety of resources to monitor own performance standards, acknowledges even indirect responsibility, commits to what is good for Albertans even if not immediately accepted and reaches goals consistent with APS direction.

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, engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.

Qualifications

Required:

• Professional accounting designation (CPA).
• University degree in a related field plus 5 years progressively responsible related experience. Equivalences maybe considered.
• A related diploma plus 7 years directly related experience.

Assets:

• Experience in the Information Technology (IT) industry is considered a strong asset.
• Advanced, professional level understanding of accounting principles and practices.
• Highly developed analytical and comprehension skills, with the ability to interpret AI-generated insights and translate them into actionable business recommendations.
• Working knowledge of the Government of Alberta’s 1GX financial system, including key modules such as General Ledger and Accounts Payable.
• Experience and knowledge of business concepts and practices as they relate to departmental activities.
• Ability to interpret government and departmental financial legislation, regulations and policies - Financial Administration Act, Sustainable Fiscal Planning and Reporting Act, Government Organization Act and various TBF directives and guidelines.
• Strong analytical and forecasting capability, translating AI-generated insights and financial data into clear, actionable business recommendations.
• Sound professional judgment in interpreting policy and legislation to resolve complex issues and establish practical, compliant solutions.

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, 2020 - June 25, 2022: 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
• Leadership and mentorship programs