Role Responsibilities Are you a detail-oriented financial professional who thrives on complex analysis and wants your work to make a meaningful impact? As a Cost Recovery Analyst with Forestry Division, you will play an important role in protecting public resources and strengthening financial accountability by helping recover eligible wildfire management costs.

This is a unique opportunity to combine financial expertise, analytical thinking, and team-oriented problem-solving in support of Alberta’s wildfire management program.

Reporting to the Forestry Business Support Manager, the Cost Recovery Analyst provides specialized financial and cost recovery expertise for wildfire-related expenditures.

You will coordinate complex recovery files from initial identification through billing, collection, reconciliation, and closure, ensuring expenditures are accurately identified, appropriately supported, and defensible.

Working across Forestry Division and with financial services, wildfire operations and investigators, legal and collection partners, other governments, municipalities, Indigenous organizations, industry, utilities, and responsible parties, you will serve as a central point of expertise for consistent and effective cost recovery practices.

The position also provides specialized financial support for wildfire investigations and potential legal proceedings by compiling, analyzing, reconciling, and documenting wildfire suppression and management costs.

Your key responsibilities include, but are not limited to: • Coordinating complex cost recovery files involving responsible-party wildfires, mutual aid, resource exports, federal and First Nations agreements,



and other recoverable expenditures. • Compiling, analyzing, and reconciling financial and operational information across 1GX, FIRES, aviation, contracts, and other source records to substantiate eligible expenditures. • Assessing expenditures for eligibility and completeness of supporting documentation, resolving discrepancies and escalating issues as required. • Preparing invoices, reimbursement claims, financial schedules, forecasts, accruals, and reports related to expenditures, recoveries, receivables, and file status. • Monitoring invoices, payments, outstanding receivables, collection activity, and applicable financial, agreement, and legal deadlines to support timely recovery. • Maintaining accurate, complete, and auditable cost recovery, prevention, and enforcement information within FIRES and related financial and operational systems. • Compiling and reconciling financial and operational information to support wildfire investigations, enforcement activities, disclosure requirements, and legal proceedings. • Maintaining sensitive investigation and enforcement records in accordance with applicable confidentiality, security, and information-management requirements. • Providing guidance to Forest Areas and provincial programs on cost recovery requirements, financial documentation, coding, reconciliation, and reporting. • Collaborating with internal and external partners to ensure recovery activities are timely, consistent, accurate, and appropriately documented. • Identifying trends, data-quality concerns, recurring issues, and opportunities to strengthen cost recovery processes, controls, systems, and tools.

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📌 Cost Recovery Analyst (Edmonton)
🏢 Government of Alberta
📍 Edmonton