Minimum mandatory criteria:
Education: Diploma or degree in accounting, finance, commerce or other relevant field from a recognized CanadianFootnote* post-secondary institution.
Experience: 24 months relevant experience.
Typical duties may include:
- Designing and developing cost accounting systems
- Providing analysis of costing for use in negotiations with third parties and to resolve problems
- Planning expenditures and resource utilization
- Preparing variance analysis, expenditure forecasts and special reports on project costs
- Undertaking financial analyses of the institution’s input to such items as Multi-year Operational Plans, Main Estimates and Public Accounts
- Coordinating the reconciliation of balances in reciprocal accounts in central and departmental systems
- Recommending the approval of credit notes to clients and recommending the release of payments to creditors
- Administering departmental revenue and refund control accounting policies, systems and procedures
- Implementing departmental procedures and policies for the preparation of estimates, budget forecasting, financial planning, control and accounting
- Evaluating effectiveness of the implementation of financial reporting systems
- Developing reporting systems to meet the needs of managers for budgetary operating and capital expenditures, person-year information and other requirements
- Conducting studies relating to the development of financial policies, systems and procedures
- Preparing year-end financial statements
- Operating and maintaining financial, material and person-year information systems
