Description:
The Corporate Senior Financial Analyst communicates with all members of the business planning team, Financial Services and corporate senior operational staff. In addition to gathering and exchanging information, communication usually involves negotiating and facilitating consensus on issues such as financial resources, program and service delivery changes, new and enhanced programs, physician services and funding, operational reviews, implementation of services and progress on cost savings/revenue generation initiatives.
External communication involves contact with representatives from external agencies such as the MOH and other Health Authorities and usually involves gathering and exchanging information as well as negotiating and facilitating consensus on issues such as program transfers, development of inter-authority programs and services, service redesign and operations review.
What you’ll do
- Working with the Directors, Business Planning and agency Senior Financial Analysts, consolidates PHSA’s interim and year end financial reports and forecasts including a written variance analysis as required for the Executive Committee, Finance Committee and Board of Directors. Assists the Director, Business Planning Support with coordinating the business planning team and reviewing financial reports for consistent quality and content. Responsible for reconciling inter-agency transactions. In the event there are material changes in funding and/ or expenditures during the fiscal year, consolidates the reforecast PHSA annual budget.
- Prepares comprehensive and timely reports for Ministry of Health requests for financial information.
- Prepares confidential analytical reports and briefings as requested by PHSA senior management.
- Working with the agency Directors, Business Planning and Senior Financial Analysts for PHSA’s agencies, prepares the consolidated PHSA Budget Management Plan. Assists the Director, Business Planning Support with completion of the annual Service Plan.
- In collaboration with PHSA senior staff, identifies opportunities for increased PHSA operational and financial resource utilization. Contributes financial expertise required for service delivery modeling, funding applications, operational reviews, and business process improvement reviews.
- Assists corporate and agency staff by:
a) Identifying resources required;
b) Researching, identifying alternatives, writing, providing a recommendation;
c) Developing financial analysis and/ or forecasts incorporating appropriate funding or costing methodology;
d) Coordinating the financial aspects of implementation, and
e) Monitoring the outcome on PHSA.
- Identifies and/ or develops “best practices” for reporting, systems design and development and issue resolution, communicating same to other members of the Finance Division team.
- Working in consultation with corporate and agency operational staff, provides financial planning and financial management for specific services or programs that are provincial in scope or cross over agencies as assigned by the Director, Business Planning Support, for example the Cardiac Program.
- Prepares PHSA consolidated Statement of Operations for reporting provided by Financial Services to the Office of the Controller General.
- Working in collaboration with the Financial Services (Grant Accounting), administers the implementation of MOHS funding as outlined in funding letters. Responsible for the accuracy of all budgeted grant funding.
- Provides training to PHSA non-financial corporate staff in areas such as developing operating and capital budgets, monitoring and interpreting financial and utilization information, analysing deviations from plan and investigating causes, and competent utilization of computer technology.
- Assists Business Planning Division with the establishment of short and long term financial objectives.
- Assists with the training of agency and other Corporate Financial Analysts.
- Undertakes special projects, as required by the Director, Business Planning Support and the Corporate Director, Business Planning to address PHSA and agency issues.
- Performs other related duties as required.