Senior Financial Analyst

Your Opportunity:

Recovery Alberta is looking for a Senior Financial Analyst who is equal parts analytical, curious, and relentless about getting the details right. Reporting to the Manager, Financial Reporting, you'll play a key role in delivering accurate, timely, and meaningful financial reporting for one of Alberta's largest public healthcare organizations. You'll be at the center of financial statement preparation, audit coordination, and technical accounting analysis, helping ensure our reporting meets legislative requirements and timelines while giving leaders the information they need to make informed decisions. This isn't a role for someone who enjoys coloring inside the lines. It's for someone who wants to understand why the lines exist in the first place. In this role, you will: Lead and support the preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements and related reporting packages. Support external audit activities from planning through fieldwork, issue resolution, and final reporting. Research emerging and complex accounting issues, assess their applicability, and recommend appropriate accounting treatments. Support external grant reporting and compliance reporting as required. Contribute to special projects, process improvements, and initiatives that strengthen financial reporting practices. The ideal candidate is comfortable balancing technical accounting expertise with practical problem-solving. Experience working with enterprise financial systems, business intelligence applications (e.g., Power BI) and artificial intelligence tools is highly desirable. You can navigate complex issues, communicate clearly with both finance and non-finance audiences, and maintain a healthy skepticism of spreadsheets that claim everything reconciles perfectly. Because sometimes they don't. And that's exactly why we need you.

Description:

As a Senior Financial Analyst, you will coordinate and/or prepare complex financial and statistical analysis and reports, along with providing interpretation of analyses and reports to support business and external requirements. Your work will be focused on budgets, forecasting, recommendations for program and/or cost efficiencies and development or enhancements to processes and controls. In addition, you will coordinate and monitor progress of financial projects, as well as coach and guide other department staff such as Financial Analysts.

• Classification:
Sr Financial Analyst
• Union:
AUPE GSS
• Unit and Program:
Finance, Financial Reporting and Budgeting, Financial Reporting
• Primary Location:
Seventh Street Plaza
• Location Details:
Eligible to work remotely within Alberta
• Multi-Site:
Not Applicable
• FTE:
1.00
• Posting End Date:
09-NOV-2026
• Employee Class:
Regular Full Time
• Date Available:
19-NOV-2026
• Hours per Shift:
7.75
• Length of Shift in weeks:
2
• Shifts per cycle:
10
• Shift Pattern:
Days
• Days Off:
Saturday/Sunday
• Minimum Salary:
$51.89
• Maximum Salary:
$62.78
• Vehicle Requirement:
Not Applicable

Post secondary degree specializing in accounting or related field (e.g. economics, statistics).

The successful candidate should be knowledgeable of accounting principles and financial statement preparation for large and complex clients in a public sector setting. Proven ability to work with stakeholders to prepare effective analysis and financial reports. Ability to work within tight reporting deadlines and strong working knowledge of Microsoft 365 applications, specifically Excel and Word. Ability to function within a collaborative team environment, excellent communication, analytical and organizational skills, as well as the ability to work independently with guidance in only the most complex situations are required for this position.

The ideal candidate has demonstrated strong and current understanding of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS) and other sections of GAAP. Three to five years of accounting/financial reporting experience with preference given to experience within a large, complex public sector entity. Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) designation is preferred. Experience in managing a single entity financial statement audit and knowledge of tax return preparation is preferred.