Group Lead, Tax and Revenue Reporting

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 66277
Ministry: Treasury Board & Finance
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: February 4, 2025
Classification: Finance 4 - Modifier

**Salary**: $3,151.07 to $4,165.00 bi-weekly ($$82,242 - $108,706/year)

Treasury Board and Finance, Edmonton - Responsible for budget planning, financial management and economic analysis, as well as the administration of tax and revenue programs. Tax and Revenue Administration (TRA) is responsible for the administration and collection of Alberta taxes, revenue, and related benefit programs. The focus of our organization is to ensure a fair, efficient and effective provincial tax and revenue system.

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**Role Responsibilities**:
The Ministry of Treasury, Board and Finance is looking for a Group Lead, Tax and Revenue Reporting.

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Tax and Revenue Reporting in the Strategic and Client Services Branch, this position performs a leadership role in facilitating the daily administration and operations of the tax and revenue reporting group. The Group Lead facilitates communication of group activities, performance measurement and process recommendations within the group and to management, and assists in maintaining the capability of the group and measuring the capacity to meet targets. This position supervises tax administration processes in accordance with legislation, policies and procedures resulting in fair and equitable treatment for clients. The Group Lead plays a key role in staff development and performance management activities to ensure a high caliber of service is delivered to clients and that the group is able to respond to changing needs.

Job Responsibilities:

- Coordinates the preparation of quarterly and annual financial statements including required analysis, reports and schedules specializing in tax and revenue accounting standards to ensure effective and accurate divisional reporting.
- Examines analysis and interprets complex financial data and makes recommendations for improvements to enhance the dependability of financial reporting.
- Assists in the planning, operations, reporting and control of the processes assigned to the group as well as providing first level of problem resolution for the group.
- Designs systems and processes required to support specialized tax and revenue financial reporting requirements.
- Oversees daily administration of all accounting related to tax and revenue programs and processes in accordance with relevant federal and provincial legislation and TRA policies and procedures.
- Manages process risk in accordance with identified program risks and ensures functional consistency across processing groups.
- Supervise and work with 6 direct reports to establish individual and group targets which carry over to individual performance contracts and evaluations.
- Acts as first level escalation point for problems with internal and external stakeholders.
- Recommends changes to processing systems to meet taxpayer demands, improve service, keep compliance costs low and to implement legislative changes.
- Advises staff on existing policies, procedures, legislation and regulations and their related amendments.

**APS Competencies**:
Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
**Systems Thinking -** This position takes a long-term view towards organization’s objectives and how to achieve them, takes holistic long-term view of challenges and opportunities, anticipates outcomes and potential impacts, seeks stakeholder perspectives, works towards actions and plans aligned with APS values, and works with others to identify areas for collaboration.

**Build Collaborative Environments -** This position collaborates across functional areas and proactively addresses conflict, encourages broad thinking on projects, and works to eliminate barriers to progress, facilitates communication and collaboration, anticipates and reduces conflict at the outset, credits others and gets talent recognized as well as promotes collaboration and commitment.

**Creative Problem Solving -** This position engages the community and resources at hand to address issues, engages perspective to seek root causes, finds ways to improve complex systems, employs resources from other areas to solve problems, engages others and encourages debate and idea generation to solve problems while addressing risks.

**Drive for Result -** This position Takes and delegates responsibility for outcomes, uses variety of resources to monitor own performance standa