Financial Management Advisor

3 weeks ago

Victoria, Canada PSD Full time

**About PSD Citywide**

PSD is a full-service firm offering research, consulting services and software to the North American public sector market. Our client base includes hundreds of small, mid-sized, and large municipalities from across North America, provincial/state and federal government agencies, and private sector entities. We are an industry leader that specializes in enterprise asset management and financial budgeting for municipalities. Over our years of experience, we have developed cutting-edge software solutions for our client’s asset management and financial budgeting needs, leaving behind mature and manageable programs making positive impacts in local communities.

**Description**

This position is responsible for delivering Financial Advisory services for PSD Citywide clients. The advisor helps clients with best practices on accounting, financial planning, policies, and processes to effectively support finance departments. It is expected the advisor has the skills and experience to coordinate and deliver financial planning, reporting, and accounting services to meet client expectations. **As we continue to grow, we are seeking an accomplished Financial Management Advisor to join our dynamic team. This is a full-time remote based position within Canada. The ability to travel occasionally will be required in this role.**

**Job Duties & Responsibilities**
- Act as Project Manager and effectively lead and assist with client engagements in the execution of Financial Advisory projects.
- Address client challenges leveraging your strong technical skills, enabling competencies, and accounting experience.
- Maintain proficiency in the public sector accounting standards (PSAS), government financial legislation and best practices applicable to the client base.
- Knowledge of best practices in financial management, policy and strategy development for clients.
- Manage multiple tasks and deadlines and prioritize workloads.
- Analyze client financial data and information to conduct lifecycle costing and forecasting.
- Produce new and creative analytic solutions that will become part of PSD’s core deliverables.
- Support PSD’s Asset Management team with financial analysis.
- Support clients in the implementation of financial management improvement initiatives.
- Support the delivery of financial advisory presentations to clients.
- Support internal and external stakeholders to ensure project timelines are being met.
- Deliver workshops, seminars and presentations to local government clients and attend industry conferences.
- Utilize internal Project Management Software to communicate, manage scope and track progress throughout the client engagements.
- Travel to clients throughout Canada and the USA to provide on-site project work.
- Other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**
- Post-secondary education, such as a bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting or similar discipline required.
- 5+ years of progressive professional experience in finance, accounting and/or assurance role.
- 5+ years of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS) would be considered an asset.
- Experience working for or with local governments would be considered an asset.
- Completed or working towards a professional designation (CA, CMA, CGA, or CPA), i.e. Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in Canada, and in good standing with the Provincial governing body.
- 5+ years of Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS) and experience with government finance best practices with a focus on the municipal sector.
- Knowledge of public sector financial legislation, municipal financial management (budgeting, reporting, and accounting) and the relevant financial software and systems.
- Strong Project Management, Stakeholder engagement, communication, and organizational skills required.
- High level of critical and logical thinking, analysis and/or reasoning to identify underlying principles, reasoning, or facts.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and take charge of client projects.
- Goal oriented individual with a proven ability to drive strong business results.
- Leadership skills: resourcefulness, innovative and collaborative.
- Professional self-starter with a commitment to improve skills through continuous learning.
- Deadline driven individual with strong verbal and written communication skills, attention to detail, creative, and able to collaborate with team members with professionalism and tact.
- Proficient with Google suite, MS Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
- Project Management certification or working toward project management certification would be considered an asset.

**Recruitment Process**

**Phone Interview**

If you are invited to a screening interview you will discuss your experience with one of our People and Culture team members. This interview is an opportunity to get to know a little more about the company, the type of work we do and impact we have.

**Virtual Interview**

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