Financial Business Partner - Regina, Canada - City of Regina

City of Regina

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Regina, Canada

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Description

Openings: 1

Type of Posting:
Internal & External

Location Name:
City of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, CA

Date Posted:
August 24, 2023

Closing Date:
September 5, 2023

Profession:
Supervisory

Experience Level(s): Intermediate

Desired Employment Status:
Term - up to 12 months

Job ID: 1665

Position Summary

The Financial Business Partner works in an advisory capacity to senior management and is responsible for specific department and branch portfolios to provide strategic support in budget development, accounting, collective bargaining proposal costing and financial management information services to support the operations of all divisions and work groups in the corporation.

This position is also responsible to develop and manage financial modelling and consistent financial management reporting, including variance and capital carry forward processes for client departments.

Financial Business Partner will lead work units that are the interface for budget and accounting services between operating departments and corporate financial and budget systems and processes.

This includes the provision of budget and accounting support, including entries into the corporate financial systems and organizing and communicating financial and statistical information, reporting and financial analysis to staff of client departments.

This role provides senior financial advisory support to client Directors and Executive Directors related to regular and strategic financial management to support partner departmental and divisional goals and objectives.

Duties & Responsibilities

Provide support to clients with respect to financial analysis and planning needs in order to support the client group's objectives.

This includes guidance and advice on financial matters such as financial and accounting policies and procedures, taxation issues and internal/management controls.

Provides strategic support by participating in business planning with operating areas to help identify and analyze opportunities for service changes (including impact on staffing level) and provide recommendations in order to support financial sustainability while considering long and short-range planning, budgeting and policy development.

Capital accounting and monitoring processes for the client departments and divisions.
Assist operating areas with development of operating and capital budget business cases.

Complete research and analyze industry best practice to develop recommendations based on long term financial impacts and any precedents which may be set all the while taking into account environmental scan of municipal, provincial and federal economic outlook.

Financial modelling work including in-depth financial analysis to provide recommendations to improve financial performance and develop strategy and lead reserve management to support proposed changes to operating areas in alignment with the Long-Range Financial Plan.

Provide support to the City's Management Bargaining Committee for collective bargaining by costing proposals.

Work with operating areas to establish and implement a centrally governed cost accounting methodology that will ensure the City accounts for costs in a way that is consistent across the organization, simple to administer and provides meaningful information to management of the City and residents.

Development of regular and ad hoc financial management reporting, and the performance of financial analysis to serve the needs of the clients.

Develops, recommends, coordinates and implements policies and procedures associated with the provision of accounting and budget support for the assigned portfolio.

Provides support for the monitoring and maintenance of agreements with external agencies and ensures criteria for external funding are met and accounted for.

Stakeholder Relationship Management
Builds strong working relationships with operating areas to be a trusted partner regarding strategic issues.

Work with the operating areas to gain a better understanding of their operations and respectfully challenge the information and approaches to provide support to meet the corporate goals in the most fiscally responsible and cost-efficient manner.

Build strong relationships within an assigned client portfolio and also within the Financial Services team providing a critical conduit between the two in order to meet operational and organizational financial goals and ensuring consistent approaches across the organization.

Support clients in managing their business while at the same time support the organizational financial requirements.

This is achieved through strong relationships with members of the client team as well as within the Financial Analysis & Support branch and Financial Services as a whole.

Support clients by creating and maintaining financial models to guide decision making and ensure long term sustainability.
Participates in special studies and/or assignments, which may involve conducting resea