Finance & Admin Unit Lead

Role Responsibilities

Step into one of the Region’s most influential administrative leadership roles—where your strategic insight, operational excellence, and passion for service will directly shape the success of multiple high‑impact programs. As a senior leader within the Business Services Group, you’ll drive administrative direction, guide a talented team, and enable the Region to deliver exceptional services across diverse mandates and stakeholders.

Reporting directly to the Regional Business Services Manager, this position is one of the two most senior administrative roles in the Region. You will lead the planning, coordination, and implementation of all major administrative functions, including finance, contract management, manpower planning, client service, systems administration, and program support. Your leadership will ensure consistent interpretation and application of policies, acts, and regulations, while strengthening administrative excellence across multiple regional programs, branches, and partnering ministries. This is a standout opportunity for a strategic, people‑focused leader ready to make a significant impact.

Your key responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Overseeing financial management, contract administration, and general administrative operations.
• Leading strategic and regional business planning to support long‑term organizational goals.
• Ensuring quality assurance through effective processes, controls, and compliance monitoring.
• Directing, coaching, and developing senior administrative staff while supporting up to 20 additional indirect reports.
• Guiding regional human resource administration to ensure consistent practices and adherence to standards.
• Implementing and maintaining general administrative standard operating procedures.
• Managing facilities, equipment, and related resources to ensure operational efficiency.
• Overseeing records management to support regulatory compliance and organizational continuity.
  

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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.

• Agility: Identifies alternative approaches or courses of action in unclear ad complex situations.  Supports others to identify, assess and use alternative approaches.
• Develop Self and Others: Models continuous learning by designing a personal action plan in line with career goals. Proactively engages in own development using a variety of learning activities beyond formal training.
• Systems thinking: Considers interrelationships and emerging trends to attain goals. Seeks insight on implications of different options and analyzes long term outcomes. Focus on goals and values and identifies unintended consequences.
• Creative Problem Solving: Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues.Engages perspective to seek root causes and finds ways to improve complex systems and employs resources from other areas to solve problems.Engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.
• Build Collaborative Environments: Facilitates open communication and leverages team skill. Leverages skills and knowledge of others and genuinely values and learns form others. Facilitates open and respectful conflict resolution and recognizes and appreciates others.

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

Qualifications

Education and experience:"
One-year certificate in Business administration and finance plus
Two years related experience; or a high school diploma and several years related experience or equivalent as described.

Equivalencies:
Directly related experience or education considered on the basis of:
One year of experience for one year of education or One year of education for one year of experience.

Assets:

• Experience working within government, public sector, or large multi‑branch organizations.
• Experience in supervising large teams in customer service.
• Experience in workbook management, accounting, budgeting, and forecasting.
• Extensive knowledge of administrative systems, procedures and financial systems reporting.
• Experience with databases such as FIRES and other tracking systems and programs which would include M365 (Word, Excel, Teams, MS Planner).

Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

This is a permanent, full-time role with the standard weekly work hours of 36.25, Monday to Friday.

Candidates may be required to complete a written assessment during the interview process.

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.
• 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.