Financial Analyst

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Assessment accommodation

PLEASE NOTE
***The official designated workplace* of the positions to be filled are in Ottawa, Ont. and Montreal, PQ. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic employees are currently working from home. Where a potential return to the workplace is possible, there may be an option or continued requirement to work from another location within the CBSA’s designated offices or from an employee’s residence located in Canada. A decision to this effect will be made at the time of the offer at the manager’s discretion and based on operational requirements. Therefore, if you believe you meet the listed essential qualifications, regardless of your preferred work location, you are encouraged to apply.

* Designated workplace: place of work or business address where the employee would work if a telework, accommodation or remote work scheme was not in place.

*** NOTE: Candidates MUST submit their application through the online system available at: GC jobs. Applications submitted in any other format will not be accepted. If there are limitations or special circumstances preventing you from submitting your application via the PSRS online portal, you must contact the CBSA Recruitment team AND receive approval to apply via an alternate means PRIOR to the closing date.

When submitting your application to this selection process, you will be required to answer screening questions to demonstrate how you meet the Essential Qualifications (Education and all Essential Experiences) as well as any Asset Qualifications (if applicable).

When answering the screening questions, remember that the assessment board cannot make assumptions about your Education and Experience. It is not sufficient to say that you have the required qualifications or to list your current or past responsibilities. Rather, you must provide concrete examples with significant details to explain WHEN, WHERE and HOW you acquired each qualification. This is similar to what would be expected of you when asked to provide a concrete example of a particular situation in the context of an interview. Note that there is a 4000 character limit per answer.

Candidates must also submit a resume with their application, which will only be used to validate the information provided in their answers to the screening questions.

Should your responses to the screening questions contain insufficient details to demonstrate that you meet the screening criteria, your application will not be given further consideration in this process. Candidates will not be solicited for incomplete or possible missing information.

Intent of the process

A pool of partially or fully qualified candidates may be established from this selection process and may be used to staff similar positions with various tenures, various linguistic profiles as well as various security clearances within the Canada Border Services Agency across Canada.

Positions to be filled: 7

Information you must provide

Your résumé.

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

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

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).

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
-Significant* experience in the application and interpretation of financial policies or accounting standards

-Significant* experience providing financial management advice and recommendations to immediate supervisor or to clients

-Significant* experience in extracting data from multiple sources in order to develop financial analysis

-Significant* experience in preparing or reviewing internal or external financial reports

-Experience in using an integrated financial system such as SAP, Oracle or other

Note : Significant* experience is defined as depth and breadth of experience normally associated with the performance of those duties for a period of approximately two (2) years within the last five (5) years.

KNOWLEDGE:
- Knowledge of accounting principles and practices
-Knowledge of the Financial Administration Act (FAA)
-Knowledge of Treasury Board policies related to Financial Reporting

COMPETENCIES:
-Oral communication
-Written communication
-Integrity
-Analytical thinking
-Ability to work in a team
-Initiative
-Attention to detail

ABILITIES:
-Ability to analyze financial issues and make recommendations
-Ability to establish priorities
-Ability to work under pressure

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

Various language requirements
Bilingual imperative BBB/BBB
English essential
English or French essential

Information on language requirements

Second Language Writing Skills Self-Assessment
In order to help you decide if you should apply to a bilingual position, an optional self-assessment of your writing skills in your second official language is available for you to take before completing your application.

For more information, please consult:
Unsupervised Internet Test of Second Language Writing Skills

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

ASSET QUALIFICATIONS

EDUCATION:
Designation from a professional accounting association (CPA, CA, CGA, CMA).

Degree equivalency

EXPERIENCE:
-Significant* experience in participating in the financial reporting process (i.e.: Report on Plans and Priorities, Performance Report, Financial Situation Report, Public Accounts, Financial Statements, or Monthly Trial Balances)

-Significant* experience in analyzing financial transactions to ensure compliance with applicable procedures, policies, directives or guidelines

-Significant* experience in providing client service

-Significant* experience in the completion of various phases of internal/external financial audits/reviews

-Experience in evaluating the effectiveness of internal controls financial frameworks as well as in the implementation of quality assurance activities of financial transactions

-Experience in accounting operations related to expenditures and accounts payables

-Experience related to revenue recognition and / or accounts receivable management

-Experience with financial systems implementation or end user support

-Significant* experience gathering, analyzing and prioritizing business requirements from clients to provide financial systems solution

-Significant* experience translating clients' business requirements into technical/systems requirements

-Significant* experience implementing solutions with SAP Business Objects

-Significant* experience providing support to users in the form of support, training and documentation

-Experience in reconciling financial data including reconciliation of accounts with large volume of transactions

-Experience in supervising employees

* Significant experience is defined as depth and breadth of experience normally associated with the performance of those duties for a period of approximately two (2 years within the last five (5) years.

ABILITIES:
-Ability to use Microsoft Excel advanced functions (such as macros, pivot tables, financial formulas, logical and lookup functions)

OPERATIONAL REQUIREMENTS:
-Willingness and ability to work overtime as required
-Willingness and ability to travel as required

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security 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

To promote a fair and more productive society, the CBSA is committed to inclusiveness and diversity. We are committed to having a skilled and diversified workforce representative of the population we serve, with a particular focus on increasing the representation of members of designated employment equity groups in our organization.

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ASSESSMENT
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Candidates must meet all the essential qualifications to be appointed to a position.

You may be assessed using a variety of assessment tools, such as, but not limited to: standardized tests, written exams, interviews, simulation exercises, reference checks, recent and past performance evaluations, self-assessments, candidate achievement record, etc.

Please note that your overall conduct and communications, including email correspondence, throughout the entire process may be used in the assessment of qualifications and competencies.

You must provide proof of your education credentials.

If you were educated outside of Canada, you must have your certificates and/or diplomas assessed against Canadian education standards. For more information please click on “Degree Equivalency” in the Education section above.

LEAVE/ABSENCES DURING THIS SELECTION
PROCESS: It is the responsibility of the candidate to notify the Departmental contact of any pre-approved leave throughout the duration of the process in order to facilitate scheduling of evaluations. One (1) alternate date will be possible only if requested for the following reasons: 1) Medical reasons with doctor’s certificate 2) Death in your immediate family 3) Confirmation of pre-approved travel plans or training plans (made before the advertisement posting date) 4) Religious reasons or 5) Participation in an assessment for another selection process.

Please note that achieving the pass mark on any of the assessments used does not mean you will move forward in the selection process. Management may decide to use a score that is higher than the pass mark on any of the evaluations used throughout the selection process. Management may also decide to use top-down selection at any stage of the process.

Management may choose to invoke an asset(s) at any point of the process.

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OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
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Persons are entitled to participate in the selection process in the official language of their choice. Applicants are asked to indicate their preferred official language in their application.

Official language proficiency could be assessed and required solely upon appointment. Each candidate can only undergo SLE testing one time within the context of an appointment process. Also, a person who initially failed linguistic testing could be introduced into the pool of qualified candidates during the pool’s validity period if he/she is assessed again through another selection process or following linguistic training.

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COMMUNICATION
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Communication for this process will be sent via email. Applicants MUST check their e-mail accounts frequently as there may be a deadline for responses. It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure accurate contact information is provided and updated as required. Candidates who apply to this selection process should include an email address that accepts email from unknown users (some email systems block these types of email). Please note that we will have to consider that you are no longer interested in participating in the selection process and that you have withdrawn your candidacy should you not provide us with an up-to-date email address or respond to our communications.

If you need to communicate with us during any stage of this process, please indicate the selection process number in the subject field of your email.

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OTHER INFORMATION
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If you are a Federal Public Servant, please ensure that your Personal Record Identifier (PRI) is included in your application.

Acknowledgement of receipt of applications will not be sent; we will contact candidates when the screening process is completed.

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.