Business Partner Specialist

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 76276
Ministry: Service Alberta and Red Tape Reduction
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Permanent
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: October 23, 2025
Classification: Administrative Support 5

**Salary**: $2,128.30 to $2,692.98 bi-weekly($55,548 - $70,286/year)

Every Service Alberta & Red Tape Reduction (SARTR) member strives to enable the success of our Ministry partners and Albertans by providing exceptional client-focused services that meet and exceed our clients’ expectations. We are looking for collaborative, agile, solutions-focused individuals with strong communications skills and a strong service orientation. Does this describe you? If so—please read on

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Accounts Payable (AP) Business Partner Management (BPM) Team Lead, the Busines Partner Specialist (BPS) is responsible for reviewing, authenticating, and completing all Business Partner (BP) requests (customers and vendors) on behalf of GOA Ministries.

This position is critical for maintaining the integrity of the BP Master Data including identifying and removing duplicate BP's, obsoleting BP information, and identifying Parent/Subsidiary BP relationships for Treasury Blue Book Reporting purposes.

The incumbent ensures the validity of all information entered into GOA 1GX ) through thorough research and investigation using, but not limited to, Corporate Registries (CORES), US Corporate Registries, Federal Corporation search, Canada Post, US Postal Service, Charitable Organization lists, First Nations and Education School Authority databases, and Google searches.

**The main responsibilities of this position include ( but not limited to)**:

- Set -up New Business Partners.
- Maintain Business Partner Changes.
- Confirm and approving Business Partner.
- Action EFT or ACH Reject notifications from 1GX Stop Payment Team.
- Investigate Business Partner Data and Accounts Payable Payments.
- Investigate and analyze BPs active status, GOA Ministry usage, payment volumes and amounts to determine which BP's stay active in 1GX, which ones are amalgamated, and which ones can no longer be used.
- Monitor 1GX to ensure functionality issues associated with business partner management are captured and resolved.
- Monitor the 1GX Business Partner General Inquiries In-box and respond to high-volume inquires from internal stakeholders in a timely manner.

**To be successful in this role you will demonstrate**:

- Knowledge of legislation, FOIP requirements, OAG requirements, IFRS, GAAS requirements with respect to business partner management.
- Knowledge of policies, procedures and established guidelines with respect to the GOA environment.
- Knowledge of government administrative systems, practices, policies, procedures, structure and areas of responsibility.
- Experience dealing with sensitive and confidential information.
- In-depth knowledge of accounting processes and requirements.
- Ability to analyze and diffuse difficult situations make recommendations for alternative solutions in situations where requests fall outside policy/guidelines.
- A general understanding of IFRS, GAAS and FOIP.
- A working knowledge of legalities surrounding a Trade Name versus a Legal Name.

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**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:

- **System Thinking**: You will consider inter-relationships and emerging trends to attain goals.
- **Develop Self and Others**: seek out learning and knowledge sharing opportunities
- **Creative Problem Solving**: you will engage the community and resources to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.
- **Agility**:you will work in changing environment and takes initiative to effect change.
- **Drive for Results**: you will work to exceed goals and partner with others to achieve objectives.
- **Build Collaborative Environments**: you will lead and contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.

**Qualifications**:
High school diploma and three years(3) of related experience.

**Equivalency**: Directly related experience or education considered on the basis of: one year of experience for one year of education or one year of education for one year of experience.

**Required**
- Knowledge and understanding of Accounts Receivable processes, concepts, requirements is now required.

**The following will be considered Assets**:

- Working knowledge of Blue Book reporting requirements (Primary Vendor vs Subordinate Vendor for reporting/tracking purposes).
- Proficient in the us