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Job Title: Finance Manager
Duration: 6 Months (Extension Possible)
Location: Edmonton, AB - Hybrid
Hours/day: 7.25

Role Overview

The Finance Manager will provide senior financial leadership and hands-on oversight for complex, time-sensitive finance and accounting initiatives supporting HSS and potentially Alberta's Provincial Health Agencies and Provincial Health Corporations.

The Manager should combine technical accounting depth, financial reporting expertise, leadership capability and strong stakeholder management.

The ideal profile is someone who can step into a complex health/public-sector finance environment, rapidly understand the assignment, organize resources, manage risks and deadlines, review technical financial work, coordinate stakeholders and ensure high-quality deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

- Manage complex financial reporting/accounting engagements.
- Lead financial reporting, general accounting, revenue/grant reporting or related finance workstreams.
- Oversee annual, quarterly and monthly reporting.
- Review financial statements and accompanying notes.
- Manage external and internal audit requirements.
- Oversee year-end and month-end processes.
- Review significant accounting issues and research.
- Ensure appropriate accounting standards and policies are followed.
- Manage complex financial variance investigations.
- Oversee general-ledger and account reconciliation activities.
- Manage restricted-fund and grant reporting.
- Review deferred-revenue and funding-related matters.
- Oversee capital asset/general accounting activities where assigned.
- Coordinate ministry reporting and other time-sensitive deliverables.




- Review work prepared by Financial Analysts, Senior Financial Analysts and/or Team Leads.
- Establish priorities and allocate work.
- Manage stakeholder expectations.
- Identify financial/reporting risks and escalate significant issues.
- Ensure deliverables are accurate, complete and timely.
- Provide guidance to operational and financial stakeholders.

Key Qualifications

- CPA or CPA-in-progress.
- Significant progressive finance/accounting experience.
- Management/leadership experience in financial reporting or accounting.
- Advanced financial-statement knowledge.
- Financial reporting and general ledger expertise.
- Month-end/year-end leadership.
- External/internal audit experience.
- Complex variance and reconciliation experience.
- Advanced Excel.
- Large-enterprise financial systems.
- Experience reviewing work of other financial professionals.
- Strong decision-making and professional judgment.
- Ability to operate independently.

Highly Desirable

- CPA designation
- PSAS
- Canadian public sector
- Healthcare finance
- Alberta healthcare/government environment
- Financial Reporting Manager experience
- External Audit Management
- Grant/restricted-fund reporting
- General Accounting leadership
- Internal controls
- Large complex organizations
- 1GX
- ASPE / IFRS / GAAP

Leadership & Soft Skills

Look heavily for:

- Executive-level communication
- Leadership presence
- Robust judgment
- Ability to manage ambiguity
- Staff leadership
- Stakeholder management
- Ability to challenge/review financial work constructively
- Organization and prioritization
- Deadline management
- Risk identification
- Collaborative leadership
- Ability to operate in a complex multi-stakeholder organization

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