Financial Administrator

Who Can Apply?: **Internal (DCC Employees) and External (General Public)** - Salary Range: **$57,116 - $74,250** - Employment status: **Continuing** - Term Length: - Security Level: **Reliability** - Language Requirement: **Bilingual Mandatory** - Closing Date: **04/06/24** - Country: **Canada** The Financial Administrator carries out a variety of financial activities (first and high risk claim review, budgets, accounts payable, contract value). Supporting the Team Lead, Contract Financials and Manager, Accounting, the incumbent records project and contract budgets, and assists with year-end activities. **KEY AND PERIODIC ACTIVITIES** **The duties and responsibilities listed below are representative but not all-inclusive**: **Primary** - Maintain project budgets, ensuring appropriate allocation of project expenditures based on Client-Partner instructions - Compile high-risk claim documentation for the Section 33 authority to review - Connect with sites offices for issues discovered in first and high-risk claim review - Perform integrity reconciliations to ensure consistency between DND and DCC financial records - Prepare daily commitments batch to recognize award and change order amounts as contract value - Process bid security deposits and return of bid security at the end of the contract - Coordinate and process direct deposit requests, set up new vendors and make changes to existing vendors - Assist with annual DND post-payment verification audit - Assist with year-end activities **Other** - Support other employees with regard to contract financial administration - Provide administrative support to other Finance department teams - Act as webmaster for the Finance department - Other duties as assigned **SKILLS** **General and Specific Knowledge** - Finance and accounting principles - Experience in Accounts payable - Experience with purchase orders (preferred) - Experience in Audit (preferred) **Formal Education and/or Certification(s) and Experience** - **Minimum**: college diploma in accounting or related field with two years’ relevant experience, or the equivalent **Abilities** - Use applicable computer software and operating systems (MS Excel, PDF, Oracle & SAP) - Perform repetitive data entry with high level of precision - Adhere to strict deadlines - Demonstrate attention to detail **DEVELOPMENT AND LEADERSHIP** - Provide occasional functional advice and guidance to employees **WORKING CONDITIONS** - Typical office environment with occasional travel **Check out the benefits** - Working with DCC offers excellent opportunities for growth - and entitles you to one of the job market’s best benefits packages. In your role as Financial Administrator, your package is valued at 25% to 30% of your salary. - Your package will include: - Public service pension - 100% employer-paid annual sick leave, health and dental premiums, and life, accidental death, and short - and long-term disability insurance - $400 Wellness Allowance (e.g., gym membership) - $1,500 for mental health services on top of regular $1,500 paramedical coverage - $750 Health Care Spending Account (for some medical expenses that aren’t covered under provincial plans or our standard insurance plan) - Telus Virtual Health Care - Maternity and parental leave top-up plan to 93% of regular gross earnings for a maximum of 17 weeks - Hybrid workplace options including $400 allowance every two years to support work-from-home options - Enhanced inConfidence employee and family assistance program - Deluxe travel benefit plans - Comprehensive vacation and other paid leave plans To begin a career with Defence Construction Canada (DCC), you must be a Canadian Citizen or a permanent resident of Canada. As a condition of employment with DCC, a minimum reliability security status clearance is required and some roles may require secret security status clearance. - DCC is responsible for the Personnel Security Clearance process_. Typically to be eligible for a "Reliability" clearance, you must have five years of verifiable background information and to be eligible for a "Secret" clearance, you must have 10 years of verifiable background information. The process usually involves reference inquiries, verification of qualifications, criminal records checks, and credit checks (as required) and may require fingerprints. For more information about obtaining a security clearance, please review the Standard on Security Screening. - criminal record checks - reference checks - previous employment - open source checks - credit/financial status Be part of a diverse and inclusive workplace