Finance Manager - 26-15298

Finance Manager

Location: Edmonton, AB (Hybrid)

Duration: 6 months

Employment Type: Contract

Role Overview
The Finance Manager will provide senior financial leadership and hands-on oversight for complex, time-sensitive finance and accounting initiatives supporting multiple organizations within a large public-sector environment.

The Manager should combine technical accounting depth, financial reporting expertise, leadership capability, and strong stakeholder management.

The ideal profile is someone who can step into a complex public-sector finance environment, rapidly understand the assignment, organize resources, manage risks and deadlines, review technical financial work, coordinate stakeholders, and ensure high-quality deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage complex financial reporting and accounting engagements
• Lead financial reporting, general accounting, revenue/grant reporting, or related finance workstreams
• Oversee annual, quarterly, and monthly reporting
• Review financial statements and accompanying notes
• Manage external and internal audit requirements
• Oversee year-end and month-end processes
• Review significant accounting issues and research
• Ensure appropriate accounting standards and policies are followed
• Manage complex financial variance investigations
• Oversee general ledger and account reconciliation activities
• Manage restricted-fund and grant reporting
• Review deferred revenue and funding-related matters
• Oversee capital asset and general accounting activities where assigned
• Coordinate government reporting and other time-sensitive deliverables
• Review work prepared by Financial Analysts, Senior Financial Analysts, and/or Team Leads
• Establish priorities and allocate work
• Manage stakeholder expectations
• Identify financial and reporting risks and escalate significant issues
• Ensure deliverables are accurate, complete, and timely
• Provide guidance to operational and financial stakeholders

Key Qualifications

• CPA or CPA-in-progress
• Significant progressive finance/accounting experience
• Management/leadership experience in financial reporting or accounting
• Advanced financial statement knowledge
• Financial reporting and general ledger expertise
• Month-end and year-end leadership
• External and internal audit experience
• Complex variance and reconciliation experience
• Advanced Excel
• Experience with large-enterprise financial systems
• Experience reviewing the work of other financial professionals
• Strong decision-making and professional judgment
• Ability to operate independently

Highly Desirable

• CPA designation
• PSAS
• Canadian public sector experience
• Healthcare finance experience
• Financial Reporting Manager experience
• External audit management
• Grant/restricted-fund reporting
• General accounting leadership
• Internal controls
• Experience in large, complex organizations
• ASPE / IFRS / GAAP

Leadership and Soft Skills

• Executive-level communication
• Leadership presence
• Strong judgment
• Ability to manage ambiguity
• Staff leadership
• Stakeholder management
• Ability to constructively challenge and review financial work
• Organization and prioritization
• Deadline management
• Risk identification
• Collaborative leadership
• Ability to operate in a complex multi-stakeholder organization