Description:
To be successful in this role you must be knowledgeable in financial transactions, project cost structures, financial controls, commitment/procurement process and project management principles. You are able to liaise with various stakeholders and branches to resolve payment or commitment issues.
It is second nature for you to manage staff workloads and allocate team resources based on business priorities. You will ensure your team of up to 7 staff are following established policies and procedures, enforce financial integrity and control, develop staff members and build an effective service-based team.
With a focus on the City of Edmonton’s Cultural Commitments of Safe, Helpful, Accountable, Integrated and Excellent you will:
Leadership
- Lead and manage internal resources by providing timely decisions, direction, advice and support to team
- Develop improvement opportunities and solutions, resolve concerns and ensure quality control, assurance and oversight support
- Ensure resourcing is allocated appropriately for consistent service levels across sections/branches
- Provide staff direction on priorities in the context of the Section, Branch and Department
- Mentor and coach the staff in a way that fosters a culture of growth, development and engagement
- Develop and establish performance objectives, and participate in conducting performance reviews
- Participate in hiring process including developing recruitment strategies to ensure a stable workforce
- Develop training strategies and work procedures
Manage Business Services
- Review all new project setup requests and facilitate discussion as required to determine appropriate structure to ensure proper financial accountability and reporting
- Provide coverage and support to ensure payments can be processed in a timely fashion
- Implement and ensure compliance and consistency in financial processing procedures and standards for both the team and the branches
- Establish financial controls and mechanisms to audit and monitor compliance
- Maintenance, interpretation and management of operationally diverse and technically varied financial programs (ie. SAP, COBS, PMIS, etc). This may require in-depth investigation and understanding of systems/projects, analytical research and initiation of corrective action
- Prepare a variety of management level reports using an ERP system and compiled data to report on both process-level and individual performance metrics
- Advise on how to setup a commitment to best ensure good project management, auditability and financial reporting