Financial Specialist - Senior

Renaud Consulting IM / IT Solutions; Ottawa; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A consulting firm specializing in financial management is seeking a Senior Financial Specialist based in Ottawa, Canada. The ideal candidate will have over five years of experience providing financial management advice to federal government clients, strong knowledge of SAP systems, and must hold a valid government security clearance. Responsibilities include advising on capital expenditures, developing stakeholder relationships, and ensuring compliance with financial processes.

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate an accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, or CGA).
• Minimum of 5 years experience in Federal Government financial management.
• At least 2 years managing corporate financial projects across multiple functions.
• Experience performing accounting functions on assets worth at least $50 Million.
• Minimum of 2 years developing relationships with Government of Canada Central Agencies.
• 5 years support experience with SAP-based Integrated Financial and Material Systems.
• Hold valid Reliability Government Security Clearance.

Responsibilities

• Provide advice on accounting treatment for capital expenditures.
• Assist senior management in official meetings.
• Develop recommended changes through stakeholder engagement.
• Communicate changes to stakeholders for policy compliance.
• Utilize departmental context to facilitate relations.
• Plan key priorities for accounting compliance.
• Develop business requirements for SAP enhancements.
• Prepare communications for senior management.
• Provide strategic input for briefing senior management.
• Advise on risks and challenges for project implementation.

Skills

Accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, or CGA)

Experience with Federal Government financial management

Experience in corporate financial project management

Experience performing accounting functions on high-value assets

Relationship development with Government of Canada Central Agencies

Experience with SAP-based financial systems

Valid Reliability Government Security Clearance

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist advice on accounting treatment for capital expenditures and ensure the advice given is the best, providing a second opinion to civil servants. The Financial Specialist (Senior) needs to be innovative and think critically to find processes and systems solutions that work.
• Attend official meetings in order to assist senior management usefully in all aspects of the work.
• Develop through the engagement of internal stakeholders the recommended changes to processes, procedures and collaborate with the Information Management (IM) team on systems changes.
• Engage with stakeholders to communicate the identified changes to close gaps and bring the DND into compliance from a policy perspective;
• Apply the acquired understanding of the departmental context and intricacies to “unblock things through good relationships with key contacts in other departments”.
• Participate in the planning and definition of the key priorities to ensure compliance with the proper accounting treatment for capital expenditures;
• Engage internal stakeholders to develop business requirements for enhancement of DRMIS (SAP) financial and material system in support of the Vote 5 Accounting Treatment Project implementation to comply with new Receiver General (RG) coding requirements (SAP is the ERP used at DND);
• Assist with the preparation of communications on behalf of senior management (communiqués to staff and central agencies);
• Provide strategic input for the purposes of briefing Senior Management (up to ADM) on the project implications for such things as Briefing Notes or Memorandums; and
• Advise the DGFOS (Project Sponsor) and Director on the particular risks, challenges to implementation.

Qualifications

• Must demonstrate that the proposed resource has an accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, or CGA).
• Must clearly demonstrate that the proposed resource has a minimum of five (5) years of experience within the last ten (10) years working for or with the Federal Government providing financial management advice to senior management.
• Must clearly demonstrate that the proposed resource has a minimum of two (2) years of experience in the management of corporate and financial projects involving financial processes and systems that affect multiple functions across the organization.
• Must clearly demonstrate that the proposed resource has a minimum of two (2) years of experience performing accounting functions on assets or inventories with a minimum Net Book Value of $50 Million.
• Must clearly demonstrate that the proposed resource has a minimum of two (2) years of experience within the last five (5) years working directly with and developing a relationship with one or more of the following Government of Canada Central Agencies:
  • the Prime Minister's Office;
  • the Privy Council Office;
  • the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat; and
  • the Department of Finance
• Must clearly demonstrate that the proposed resource has a minimum of five (5) years in the last ten (10) years supporting a Government of Canada Department or Agency’s business processes that rely on the use of an SAP-based Integrated Financial and Material System (IFMS).
• MUST CURRENTLY HOLD VALID RELIABILITY GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE