Financial Analyst

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Ministry

The Municipal Infrastructure and Finance Branch of Government Relations is seeking a professional, service-oriented individual with an accounting background for the position of Financial Analyst.

Reporting to the Manager of Financial Management, this position is responsible for maintaining and updating municipal financial data and mill rate data, suggesting improvements for processes, and reviewing individual municipalities' auditors' reports on annual municipal financial statements, waterworks data, and mill rate returns to ensure consistency and compliance with ministry policies, procedures, Acts, and Regulations. It is also responsible for analyzing the financial health of municipalities, researching trends, identifying emerging problems, drawing interrelationships, forming conclusions, and advising municipalities, auditors and ministry staff on municipal financial reporting policies and formats.

Working as part of a team, you will use your knowledge of Public Sector Accounting Standards to review, interpret and evaluate municipal financial statements and other financial information in order to form conclusions and/or make recommendations on their validity, correctness and compliance with generally accepted accounting principles, established policies, procedures and/or legislation. You will be required to correspond both verbally and in writing to inquiries, prepare a variety of correspondence, reports and briefings for internal and external clients.

In addition, you will perform financial data analysis using spreadsheets, databases and analytic software. In order to meet the challenges of this position, you will also bring advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel functionalities, and interpersonal, communication and organizational skills. The successful candidate will be a team player, thorough, conscientious and attentive to detail.

Our candidate of choice will have strong general knowledge of auditing and accounting practices, standards and procedures, including Public Sector Accounting Standards. Typically, the knowledge and skills would be acquired through an undergraduate degree with an accounting specialization. Current enrollment in the CPA PEP program would be considered an asset.

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