City of Yellowknife

Manager, Financial Services

The City of Yellowknife is an inclusive employer offering a dynamic and rewarding work environment that delivers valuable services to our residents. At the City, the diverse backgrounds of our employees help us to create a positive, safe and fun environment for us all. The City is committed to hiring a diverse and skilled workforce that is representative of the community, strengthening our ability to provide high quality services and excellent customer service to residents. The City of Yellowknife welcomes applications from all qualified candidates, and encourages Indigenous persons, visible minorities and persons with a disability to self-declare when submitting their application.

The City of Yellowknife is actively recruiting a professional, highly skilled and experienced individual to assume the role of Manager, Financial Services. Reporting to the Director, Corporate Services, the Manager, Financial Services provides leadership to the Financial Services Division staff while ensuring that excellent customer service is maintained and operations are compliant with all applicable legislations, regulations, and City policies. This on site role demands a deep understanding of both financial and operational principles in a municipal environment, a strong working knowledge of the Public Sector Accounting Standards, the ability to lead and inspire teams, and a sophisticated approach to integrating financial data, people, technology and process improvements for efficiency and sustainable growth.

The successful candidate must have a University degree in accounting, and finance or a related field and hold their CPA Designation. A minimum of eight years directly related experience managing unionize staff is required. The position requires that applicants have expert level knowledge/experience with practices related to forecasting, auditing, accounting, internal controls, financial reporting, taxation, and capital planning in a municipal setting. The ideal candidate will also possess strong problem solving and decision-making skills to enable the assessment of multiple issues, the development of options and implementation of decisions necessary for the effective and efficient operation of the Financial Services Division and the organization as a whole

The City of Yellowknife offers a competitive salary range between $133,679 - $167,098 annually and a comprehensive benefit package which includes a defined benefit pension plan with a reciprocal agreement with the Public Service Superannuation Pension Plan.

Qualified applicants are required to apply no later than June 21, 2024

Please visit the City of Yellowknife Website at: www.yellowknife.ca to submit your resume.

Please be advised that the City of Yellowknife requires all prospective employees to provide a criminal records check prior to employment.

We thank all applicants who apply, but advise that only those to be interviewed will be contacted.
Education : Bachelor\xe2\x80\x99s degree
Experience : 5 years or more