Financial Manager, Major Capital Projects

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Job Summary

Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:

Responsible for the capital planning, comptrollership, cash flow tracking and reporting of Fraser Health’s (FH) major capital projects; develops the financial budgets and financial service goals for all aspects of designated projects within FH; builds and maintains strategic business partnerships, promotes and facilitates innovation in capital resource management with Facilities Planning, internal and external clients to develop designated plans for FH; develops budget estimates, undertakes analyses and develops financial models to ensure complete and accurate financial information is used in the development and implementation of major capital projects; maintains contact with the Ministry of Health for reporting, claims, approvals and related matters; leads subsequent business analysis and provides recommendations to ensure that implementation of assigned major capital projects are consistent with FH goals and objectives.

Duties & Responsibilities

Business and Procurement Modeling

• Develops short and long term budget assumptions/goals to be used in the development of project financials for designated capital projects; works with project teams and external advisors to analyze and quantify project risks.
• Supports the financial management of the designated capital project(s) through budget preparation, monitoring and reporting expenditures and variance analysis; contributes to the development and review of requisite financial models.
• Develops, recommends and implements appropriate policies, procedures and systems for assigned projects to simplify workflow and meet regulatory and/or contractual requirements; problem-solves and provides education to users, where appropriate.
• Provides comptrollership and business functions for assigned capital projects; prepares financial reports and manages the payment stream utilizing input from FH Accounting Services and Ministry of Health; ensures that financial reports comply to a number of parameters as required by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Ministry of Health, FH Executive and FH accounting policies.
• Leads a team of external advisors in the development of procurement options and funding analyses; provides project advisors with information needed to undertake their analyses and to undertake quality assurance review of their outputs.
• Monitors changes in project assumptions in order to identify and quantify their budgetary and financial impact; develops revised and/or amended project financial forecasts, budgets and other related information as needed.
  

Pre-Construction Cost Estimates and Budget Development

• Works with key internal staff and external consultants to develop pre-construction capital cost estimate budgets for designated major capital projects, including operating and start-up budgets.
• Based on pre-construction estimates, leads the creation, development and implementation of detailed operational budgets for designated capital projects.
• Monitors changes in order to identify and quantify their budgetary impact; develops revised and/or amended capital and operating financial forecasts, budgets and other related information as needed.
  

Project Accounting and Financial Reporting

• Leads project accounting to monitor the financial aspects of project implementation.
• Develops a capital cash flow forecast for assigned capital projects by working with internal stakeholders such as Facilities Planning to identify project timelines and associated cash spending for internal cash management for submission to the Ministry of Health.
• Provides financial oversight of the Project Agreement including payment mechanism, policy changes, cash management, tracking and applicable reporting of the Project Agreement components.
• Provides controllership and business functions for assigned projects; prepares financial reports and manages the payment stream utilizing information from Accounting Services and the Ministry; ensures financial reports comply with required parameters as required by GAAP, the Ministry, FH Executive and FH accounting policies.
• Manages the payment stream from the Ministry of Health during project construction including the payment mechanism and cash flow during operations.
• Identifies potential financial risks and issues and provides recommendations regarding risk mitigation/resolution to the Director, Financial Planning.
• Collaborates with other FH financial team members to develop appropriate financial reporting of projects and project accounting.
• Acts as a Finance resource and contact person with the Ministry of Health for requisite information and related financial queries such as business plan submissions, approvals, claims, capital plan and cash flow forecasts.
• Represents FH on internal and external committees and/or boards, where applicable.
  

Qualifications

Education, Training, and Experience

A recognized professional accounting designation such as a CGA, CMA, CA or CPA.

Seven (7) years’ recent related financial accounting experience with capital projects and project management including two (2) years’ supervisory experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.