Summer Student

3 weeks ago

Halifax, Canada Province of Nova Scotia Full time

**Department**:Public Works

**Location**:HALIFAX

**Type of Employment**:Student

**Union Status**:Exclusion - Non Union - NSPG

**Closing Date**:4/19/2023 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)

**About Us**:
Building and maintaining our provincial infrastructure is no small job. We’re recruiting for summer students to help our province achieve big things

At the Department of Public Works, we manage 23,000 kilometers of roads and highways and 4,100 bridges across Nova Scotia. We also maintain 2,400 buildings and infrastructure assets across a wide range of clients. We maintain and support various government buildings including museums, political core buildings, office buildings, and justice centres.

**About Our Opportunity**:
As the Financial Services Summer Student, you will administer and perform the day-to-day operations of Financial Advisory Services, Department of Public Works, by ensuring proper documentation, verification, authorization, job costing and account coding. The Financial Services student maintains the general ledger by reviewing, reconciling, and analyzing on a daily and monthly basis for accounting and data errors or inconsistencies.

**Primary Accountabilities**:

- Ensure information reliability for both client divisions and agencies by reviewing and analyzing the accuracy and proper allocation of expenditures and revenues by auditing and analyzing client's financial commitments, the GR/IR, the proper allocation to cost elements and project/contract numbers;
- Review and verify contracts, cost share agreements, purchase orders, standing orders, tender requisitions and request for purchases to ensure proper accounting function for the processing of invoices and billings;
- Provide ad hoc analysis reporting as required by management;
- Assist with the financial analysis on a variety of projects including comparative analysis, historical analysis, budget and forecast processes.

**Qualifications and Experience**:
You must be currently enrolled as a student and returning to school in the fall (or in the next applicable semester for the education program). This opportunity is a perfect fit for students enrolled in a Computer Science, Business Information Technology, Business Administration or Commerce Program.

You also can work independently with little supervision and in team environments. You possess strong organizational skills including the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment and displays initiative and resourcefulness with a strong attention to detail.

We will assess the above qualifications and competencies using one or more of the following tools: written examination, standardized tests, oral presentations, interview(s), and reference checks.

**Working Conditions**:

- Normal work week is 35 hours/week, 7 hours/day.
- Typically located in a comfortable office environment.
- Much of the time is spent in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.
- Regularly reads and interprets multiple sources of information, regular requirement to type, read and work on a computer.
- May experience pressure with deadlines and need for accuracy.

**Additional Information**:
There is one (1) position available based out of 1672 Granville Street, Halifax.

This opportunity will start approximately May 1, 2023 with an end date of September 1, 2023.

**Pay Grade**:_ _HOURLY

**Salary Range**:_ _$17.25 - $28.12 Hourly

**Employment Equity Statement**:
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