Financial Accountant

Competition #: 50298

Department: Finance and Treasury Board

Location: HALIFAX

Type of Employment: Permanent

Union Status: Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

Closing Date: 08-Nov-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

At the Department of Finance and Treasury Board, we work to preserve the fiscal capacity of government by providing financial leadership, analysis, and advice for ongoing fiscal sustainability of the Province. As stewards of the Province’s financial affairs, we deliver a wide range of corporate fiscal and management services, including the preparation of the provincial budget, forecast updates, and year-end financial statements, as well as review departmental submissions to Executive Council and its sub-committees to ensure government plans are coordinated and financial elements are thoroughly understood.

The Department of Finance and Treasury Board is looking for a strong team member and communicator with very good relationship-building skills, who is interested in joining a professional team with a focus on technical financial accounting matters in the public sector and that will engage with departments, entities, and other professionals to facilitate solutions.

The overall purpose of the Financial Accountant is to provide expert accounting advice and consulting services on complex corporate accounting and financial issues to all organizations within the government reporting entity, as well as sound financial reporting in compliance with Canadian public sector accounting standards.

This position reports to the Director, Financial Accounting.

This position’s primary responsibility is the proper accounting for pension, retirement, and other employee benefits. The Financial Accountant provides timely advice and financial support to senior management on a variety of complex pension accounting issues. The Financial Accountant is also responsible for managing the division’s pension accounting files and is the main contact when dealing with the actuaries.

Responsibilities also include coordinating and preparing clear, accurate, and timely actuarial assumptions, scenario analyses, presentations, and other correspondence, researching, planning, and drafting accounting policy and related documents, and providing insightful accounting advice on an on-going basis. Periodically, some work will be conducted with the other departments and controlled entities to provide technical accounting and analytical support, prepare year-end consolidations, and assist on special projects.

• Researching, analyzing, recommending, and implementing Canadian public sector accounting standards to be used by the provincial government and its controlled entities.
• Providing technical financial accounting advice to senior management, departments, and entities. Preparing year-end consolidated and unconsolidated financial statements and related financial documents.
• Coordinating and preparing clear, accurate, and timely accounting opinions, facilitating presentations and training sessions, researching and drafting accounting policies, and providing insightful accounting advice on an on-going basis.
• Developing, implementing, and monitoring accounting policies based on sound research and recommendations to support the financial reporting objectives of the Province.
• Contributing to Canadian public sector accounting standards by preparing critical evaluations and formal responses on behalf of the Province.
• Consolidated financial statement preparation, including consolidation and segment reporting models, and control assessments.

The successful candidate must possess a professional…