Director,Corporate Finance Job Burnaby area,New Westminster BC Canada,Finance & Banking

Location: New Westminster

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $66.85 - $96.10 / hour

Job Summary

Fraser Health is hiring for a strategic and innovative Director, Corporate Finance role located in New Westminster, reporting into the Executive Director, Corporate Finance. This position will allow you to combine your leadership skills and your knowledge to support Accounting Services for Fraser Health consisting of managing the General Accounting, Treasury, Public-Private Partnerships, Physician Compensation departments. This Director will work closely with Medical Affairs to ensure payments to physicians are made correctly and in a timely manner.

This Director will also need to have a clear understanding of policies, as they will be responsible for devising, updating and modernizing across the health authority.

As the successful candidate, you will have:

Chartered Professional Accounting designation (CA, CGA or CMA)
Ten (10) years’ recent related accounting experience in a senior management role, including five (5) years’ related comptroller responsibilities in a large complex organization.
Experience in a public sector/unionized environment a strong asset.

Detailed Overview

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Oversees the development, coordination and management of the General Ledger, Capital Accounting and Physician Compensation Departments for Fraser Health including internal controls, statutory and financial reporting; plans, implements and evaluates related physical, financial and human resources in support of the strategic and operational needs of the designated portfolio including financial analysis, business support, budgeting processes and guidelines; participates as a member of the Accounting Services portfolio in the development of the mission, strategies and goals for the designated financial portfolio to ensure the optimum delivery of appropriate financial and accounting services for FH;

reviews and analyzes budgets for the designated portfolio including proposed initiatives.

The Director, Corporate Finance participates at the Regional and Provincial level to define, influence and implement financial policies, procedures, systems, internal controls and to work towards consistent application of Financial Reporting standards.

Responsibilities

Identifies strategic issues and proposed directions for the Corporate Finance teams within the Finance department, in collaboration with the Executive Director and senior management team, by methods such as gathering information, assessing trends, consulting with relevant stakeholders, identifying issues that impact on strategic directions, proposing authority-wide initiatives, incorporating approved initiatives and recommending shifts in service/scope to ensure consistency between the portfolio and the strategic directions of the organization.

Develops and recommends short and long range goals and objectives for the designated portfolio ensuring that plans support the goals, policies and vision of the Accounting Services department; develops, coordinates and monitors long term financial practices and incorporating best practices into the designated portfolio to ensure that the financial goals are consistent with FH's long term objectives.

Develops, implements and reviews policies, standards and procedures to ensure the delivery of effective and efficient accounting services for the designated portfolio; provides leadership on financial activities to ensure the efficient utilization of the financial resources are within the objectives, plans and budgets established by FH senior management; plans and implements operating and capital budgets for the portfolio including budget preparation, authorization control and reporting of expenditures.

Directs the development and maintenance of accounting processes for Fraser Health to provide complete and accurate records of assets, liabilities and financial transactions in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP), Ministry of Health Services policies and procedures and FH policies;…