Senior Financial Analyst

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Assessment accommodation

Intent of the process

A pool of fully or partially qualified candidates may be established through this process to staff with identical or similar positions within Natural Resources Canada with various tenures, various language requirements, linguistic requirements (imperative and/or non-imperative) and profile(s), various security requirements, various conditions of employment and for various locations.

Positions to be filled: 3

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

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
- Recent* experience** in providing advice, guidance, briefings and recommendations on financial issues.
- A minimum of five (5) years of recent* professional work experience in a combination of two (2) or more of the following fields, including at least two (2) years of significant** experience at an intermediate level (FI-02 group and level or equivalent):
• Accounting operations
• Corporate accounting
• Corporate reporting
• Corporate Resource Management
• Cost recovery through fees
• Costing
• Financial management advisory services
• Internal control
• Financial policies
• Financial Systems
• Financial Transformation
• Grants and Contributions financial management
• Management of Loans, Accounts Receivables and/or Revenues
• Management of a corporate travel program
• Relocation
• Salary Management
• Other acceptable financial management-related field
- Recent* experience** in analyzing and interpreting financial information.

* Recent is defined as performing the duties within the past seven (7) years.
** Experience must have been attained in a financial management position level or above for a period of at least 24 months.

If you possess any of the following, your application must also clearly explain how you meet it (other qualifications)

Occupational Certification:
A recognized professional accounting designation (i.e., CA, CMA, CGA or CPA).

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

Various language requirements
• Bilingual Imperative BBB/BBB
• Bilingual Imperative CBC/CBC

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

Competencies
Strategic thinking: Ideas and analysis
Management excellence: Action
Management excellence: People
Written communications
Oral communications.

Personal Suitability:
Judgement
Initiative
Integrity
Client service

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

Experience:
Experience of one year or more in supervising employees.
Experience in managing an operational unit.
Experience working with SAP or similar enterprise software.
Experience using Microsoft Power Query and Power BI.

Selection may be limited to members of the following Employment Equity groups: Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, women

Information on employment equity

Conditions of employment

Reliability Status security clearance

Secret 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

Indeterminate employees at the same group and level or equivalent will be considered for deployment. If no deployment is made, applicants from other groups and levels will be considered in the advertised appointment process.

You must provide proof of your education credentials.

Persons are entitled to participate in the appointment process in the official language(s) of their choice.

A random and/or top down selection of candidates may be used in the determination of those to be given further consideration in the assessment process.

Preference

Preference will be given to veterans first and then to Canadian citizens and permanent residents, 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.