Senior Financial Management Board Analyst

The Department of Finance has the mandate to provide leadership and direction to the public service in all areas of finance and human resource management. This mandate includes negotiating major financial arrangements with the federal government, providing analysis and advice to the Financial Management Board, and ensuring that financial and information resources are managed effectively, efficiently and economically. This mandate also includes the recruitment and retention of a competent public service that is representative of the people it serves and the development of programs and services that effectively serve the human resource needs of the public service.

Reporting to the Director, Management Board Secretariat, the Senior FMB Analyst provides independent and objective analysis, and broad financial, policy and strategic advice on all government-wide on-going operations and priorities, and new strategies and initiatives with financial consequences, to the highest level decision-makers in Government. The incumbent provides advice directly to the Director, Management Board Secretariat, the Deputy Secretary to the Financial Management Board and the Deputy Minister of Finance, Chief Financial Officers in Departments and/or Boards and Agencies, the Financial Management Board (FMB) and, where appropriate, advice to Executive Council (Cabinet).

The incumbent is also expected to provide departments and senior managers across Government with independent advice on programs, initiatives and strategic plans that have financial impacts and broad cross-departmental implications. The incumbent is expected to monitor compliance cross-Government with Financial Management Board direction and all governing authorities and legislation. The incumbent is expected to assess incoming documents and communications in order to effectively share new and important information with relevant departments.

KNOWLEDGE SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

The incumbent must be able to analyze, interpret and critically assess a wide range of information including legislation, draft legislation and legislative proposals, existing and proposed policies, provincial/territorial/federal and departmental initiatives and programs and services, Cabinet and FMB direction, strategic plans, business plans various financial data, and other relevant documents and studies. The incumbent must be able to anticipate the implications of potential changes in order to develop advice and make recommendation for decision-making by the Financial Management Board, and Cabinet when applicable, to influence decisions of the government in order to meet objectives.

In order to effectively support development of strategic financial advice, the incumbent must possess the ability to understand, develop and communicate highly complex materials. The incumbent must have superior planning, organizational, written and verbal communication skills in order to communicate, at times complex, issues to a variety of audiences, including communicating difficult positions (politically and financially sensitive matters) to decision makers, senior managers and other departmental staff. The incumbent must be appropriately assertive, self-motivated, confident and possess above average interpersonal skills with the ability to employ diplomacy, tact and good judgment in communicating and maintaining excellent working relationships with individuals cross-government and with organizations outside the government.

This position is typically attained by:

The depth and breadth of knowledge required to undertake these tasks is most commonly acquired through completion of a graduate degree in economics, business administration, public administration, completion of a professional accounting designation, or approved equivalency plus a minimum of five years work experience in the areas of financial management, planning, and program design and/or evaluation. Such experience could be acquired through work in either the public or private sectors.

Inquiries Only:

Department of Finance
Government of the Northwest Territories
YELLOWKNIFE CENTRE 5TH FLOOR
BOX 1320 YELLOWKNIFE NT X1A 2L9
Tel (867) 767-9154 Extension 14106
Fax (867) 873-0445
jobsyk@gov.nt.ca

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