VAC OPEN HOUSE - JOB OPPORTUNITIES- Financial Officer - FI-02

SELECTION PROCESS CANCELLED

We regret to inform you that this job opportunity has been cancelled.

Update: Closing date extended to November 26th, 2018.

Important messages

We are committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free work environment, starting with the hiring process. If you need to be accommodated during any phase of the evaluation process, please use the Contact information below to request specialized accommodation. All information received in relation to accommodation will be kept confidential.

Assessment accommodation

To learn more about Veterans Affairs Canada's hiring process and this job opportunity, we invite you to our OPEN HOUSE event on Wednesday, November 14th, 2018 Heritage North, Theatre Room, 400 Government Road West, Kirkland Lake, ON from 2:00pm to 7:00pm (EST).

PLEASE NOTE: You must still submit your application online to be considered for this job opportunity. You do not need to attend the Open House to be eligible to apply.

Navigating the Application Process
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GW7P3g9hhI.

Link to information regarding Kirkland Lake, Ontario: http://www.discoverkl.ca/

All information must be provided through the "apply online" application process. Do not fax, mail, email or drop-off a hard copy application as these will not be accepted. To apply in an alternate format due to disability, you must contact the email address indicated in The "Contact information" section below PRIOR to the Closing Date.

Please note when submitting an application to this selection process, you will be prompted to answer screening questions concerning the essential education and experience qualifications and, if applicable, other (nonessential) qualifications.

It is NOT sufficient to only state that the qualifications are met or to provide a listing of current or past responsibilities. Rather you must clearly demonstrate HOW, WHEN, and WHERE the qualification was met through substantiation by examples. Information on your described skills, experience, etc. provided in the screening questions should be supported by your resume. Failure to provide the above information in the format required may result in your application being rejected from the process.

Resumes will be used as a secondary source to validate the experience and education described in the screening questions.

Intent of the process

This process will serve to create a group of qualified candidates which could be used to staff similar or identical positions with various tenures, various language requirements and/or various security clearance levels.

The intent is to staff positions in KIRKLAND LAKE, Ontario.

Positions to be filled: Number to be determined

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

In order to be considered, your application must clearly explain how you meet the following (essential qualifications)

Education:
ED1: A degree from a recognized post-secondary institution with specialization in accounting, finance, business administration, commerce or economics AND experience related to positions in Financial Management;

OR

ED2: Occupational Certification: Eligibility for a recognized professional accounting designation. The recognized professional accounting designations are Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), Chartered Accountant (CA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Certified General Accountant (CGA).

Notes:
1.The courses for the specialization must be acceptable and must have been taken at a recognized post-secondary institution, but not necessarily within a degree program in the required specialization.
2.Indeterminate incumbents of FI positions and of positions at Indian Oil and Gas Canada and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions that are equivalent to FI Group positions on August 1st, 2004 who do not possess the education level prescribed above are entitled to the following grand-parenting provisions: a.Incumbents of FI-2 or higher positions are deemed to meet the minimum education standard for those levels based on their education, training and/or experience. This note also applies to persons appointed or deployed, for an indeterminate period, to positions in the FI Group after that date as the result of staffing transactions started before August 1st, 2004.
3.The acquired rights provision in Note 2 also applies to employees who were grand-parented as a result of the FI conversion on June 23rd, 1987. Employee entitlement to grand-parenting protection is based on their last classification level in the FI Group.

Degree equivalency

Experience:
EX1: Experience in interpreting and applying policies, guidelines and procedures.
EX2: Experience in preparing reports with recommendations (including activities such as extracting, compiling and analyzing information).
EX3: Experience in providing information and/or advice to managers for the purpose of decision making.

The following will be applied / assessed at a later date (essential for the job)

Various language requirements
English Essential
Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC

Information on language requirements

Competencies:
C1: Oral Communications
C2: Written Communications
C3: Management Excellence: Action
C4: Strategic Thinking: Analysis
C5: Strategic Thinking: Ideas
C6: Engagement

Link to FI-02 competencies: http://www.gcpedia.gc.ca/wiki/Financial_management_community/Career_Development_Portal/FI_to_CFO_Career_Path/FI-02

The following may be applied / assessed at a later date (may be needed for the job)

Education:
AED1: Possess a recognized professional Accounting Designation (i.e. CPA)

Degree equivalency

Experience:
AEX1: Experience in supervision of staff
AEX2: *Recent experience in working with VACs Social Benefit programs such as Disability Pensions, disability Awards, Treatment, Veterans Independence Program, etc.
AEX3: Experience in working with a Financial Management System (e.g. FreeBalance)
AEX: Experience working as a member of the Canadian Forces

*Recent is defined as experience obtained within the last two (2) years.

Operational Requirements:
- Willingness and ability to work overtime
- Occasional travel
- May be required to carry a departmentally-issued mobile device and respond off-hours

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance - Some positions may require a Secret clearance

Other information

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled and diverse workforce that reflects the Canadians we serve. We promote employment equity and encourage you to indicate if you belong to one of the designated groups when you apply.

Information on employment equity

***NOTE***
It is your responsibility to ensure that your email and contact information are maintained with the hiring board. All communication for this process will be sent by email and it is your responsibility to verify your messages regularly.

Education and/or Experience factors in the asset qualifications may be used for screening. Applicants should clearly demonstrate on their application if they meet any of the education and/or experience asset qualifications. Failure to do so may result in the rejection of your application.

One or more asset qualifications may be used during the screening to manage the volume of applications.

Candidates will be asked to provide proof of their education credentials, and proof of citizenship at a later date.

An interview and/or written exam may be administered.

Reference checks may be sought. The Assessment Committee reserves the right to contact references other than those provided by the candidates (within the Public Service only) in order to adequately assess the candidates.

Indeterminate employees at the same group and level or equivalent may be considered for assignment, deployment or secondment opportunities before other candidates.

The Public Service of Canada is committed to building a skilled, diverse workforce reflective of Canadian society. As a result, it promotes employment equity and encourages candidates to indicate voluntarily on their application if they are a woman, an Aboriginal person, a person with a disability or a member of a visible minority group.

The Public Service of Canada is also committed to developing inclusive, barrier-free selection processes and work environments. If contacted in relation to a job opportunity or testing, you should advise the Public Service Commission or the departmental official in a timely fashion of the accommodation measures which must be taken to enable you to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Information received relating to accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.

INSTRUCTIONS
When recording your examples, be sure you:
• Provide concrete, specific examples of actions that speak directly to the experience sought.
• Choose examples with sufficient complexity, impact and degree of difficulty that will allow you to illustrate to what extent and depth you have shown the behaviours expected for each qualification.
• Focus on what you did. In referring to an experience achieved in the context of a team, set your role apart from the role(s) of others.
• Please describe the achievements in the past tense. This will help to ensure that you are providing concrete examples, rather than making general statements (e.g.instead of saying “I work well within a team….” you can say “I worked well with a team when….”).
• Use action verbs when describing your experience i.e. lead, managed, organized, planned, prepared, informed, determined, etc.
• Provide all examples in sentence format.
• Each example must include when the example took place, background of each situation, what you did, how you did it, what your role was in the situation, and what was the outcome.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans and to Canadian citizens, in that order, with the exception of a job located in Nunavut, where Nunavut Inuit will be appointed first.

Information on the preference to veterans

We thank all those who apply. Only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.