Controller - Budget and Financial Planning

ABOUT US

The City of Spruce Grove is a fast growing, dynamic city committed to building and maintaining a fiscally responsible community that serves our residents, attracts visitors, and promotes future growth.

The “Values, We Live By” are accountability, communication, leadership, integrity, and respect while we work towards maintaining a work/play balance.

We are an organization that cares, an organization that is committed to our city and committed to you. The City of Spruce Grove is committed to public service, where everyone feels empowered to contribute their best work. We believe that by working together in a spirit of collaboration and respect, we can achieve great things.

THE OPPORTUNITY

The Controller - Budget and Financial Planning leads the development and implementation of fiscal strategy and policy for the City of Spruce Grove that supports strong sustainability of the City’s fiscal resources into the future. The incumbent also leads the City’s Budget and Financial Planning processes and deliverables.

The Controller - Budget and Financial Planning provides leadership to the Senior Financial Analyst, Assistant Controller - Budgeting and Financial Planning and the team within, to ensure strategic and effective budgeting and financial planning.

The Controller - Budget and Financial Planning is accountable for developing the utility budget and utility rate modeling, municipal operating and capital budgets, asset life cycle modeling, cash management, investment portfolio, restricted reserves management and debt management.

For proposed new strategies and approaches, the incumbent is accountable for preparing Requests for Decision that will seek City Manager and Council approval, as required. The incumbent is accountable for ensuring the strategies, and the associated financial impact, are reflected properly in all financial documentation going forward.

This position works closely with the Director of Finance, and Controller - Accounting and Revenue Services to enhance corporate and regional long-term planning. This position reports to the Director of Finance.

This is a full-time, permanent position. The annual salary range is $ 114,714.60 - 136,354.40.

RESPONSIBILITIES

Development and Implementation of Fiscal Strategy and Policies
- Provide leadership in the development and implementation of the elements within fiscal strategy and policy for the City of Spruce Grove that support strong sustainability of the City’s fiscal resources into the future.
- Develop alternative approaches to achieve desire fiscal strategy objectives.
- Fiscal strategies must be implementable/achievable and realistic given the City’s level of resources, investments debt limit, and tax strategies.
- Fiscal strategies and policies must consider the current political environment in which the City operates.

Leadership of Budgeting and Financial Planning
- Work collaboratively with the Controller - Accounting and Revenue Services, all the Assistant Controllers, as well as with the Corporate Leadership Team (City Manager and the General Managers), Organizational Leadership Group (Department Directors) to lead an integrated approach to Fiscal Strategy, and Corporate and Financial Planning.
- Lead the development of the annual budgetary process.
- Provide strategic leadership on long-term financing strategies, investments, reserve fund management, and debt management.
- Identify and monitor emerging issues that will impact budgeting and financial planning.
- Consult with the Director of Finance, Controller - Accounting and Revenue Services, Assistant Controller - Budgeting and Financial Planning, and Assistant Controller - Accounting and Reporting regarding forecast variances and impact on reserve balances.
- Work with the Director of Finance to contribute advice and guidance to the Corporate Leadership Team and participate in Management Team/Corporate Leadership Team meetings as required to support the Corporate Planning process.
- Oversee the calculation of the recommended tax rate and reserve balances and provide guidance to Corporate Leadership Team.
- Overall responsibility for the Asset Lifecycle Plans that support Asset Management, as they tie to the determination of lifecycle reserve balances.
- Oversee the work of the Budget and Financial Planning team during budget analysis, determination of financial implications, preparation of the annual budget, and completion of all financial information to be included in the budget document.
- Stakeholder and strategic support to the organization related to budgeting and fiscal planning.

Long Term Capital Plan
- Oversee the preparation of the long-term capital plan, as well as supporting enhancements to the Capital Planning process and associated detailed capital management reporting.
- Lead the Capital Plan strategy development for the organization, to ensure the plan remains funded, funding sources are used effectively.
- Collaborate extensively with Directors in the d