Manager, Financial Planning

**Job Information**

Job Requisition ID: 72867
Ministry: Health
Location: Edmonton
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Ongoing
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: July 9, 2025
Classification: Manager Zone 2

**Salary**: $3,339.00 to $4,493.32 bi-weekly ($87,147 - $117,275/year)

The Alberta Public Service (APS) is taking a One Finance approach to the delivery of financial services. Financial services include the delivery of financial planning, reporting, and operations, as well as ongoing engagement with policy and program areas to provide strategic decision-making support. There are three top leadership priorities that support this One Finance approach: proactively supporting our talent across the finance community; providing collaborative and responsive services to our business partners; and actively engaging in continuous improvement of the way we support each other and do business within our teams and across the entire finance community.

**Role Responsibilities**:
Reporting to the Director, Financial Planning - Health Entities Unit, the Manager, Financial Planning - Health Entities, is accountable for overseeing Health's budget management and fiscal analysis. This position ensures consistency between all financial documents produced to ensure that the needs of the Ministry are understandable and easy to comprehend by the Executive Team, the Minister and Treasury Board Committee. This position requires an in-depth understanding of accounting and finance functions, including forecast modeling, budget management, and comprehensive knowledge of programs and operations offered by the Ministry. The incumbent provides leadership, coaching, proactive guidance and reviews complex financial information and budget/forecast submissions.

Responsibilities include:

- Provides leadership and direction to develop and prepare information required to support the Ministry's three-year fiscal plan within the parameters and direction set by Treasury Board Committee, the Minister, and Executive Team (ET).
- Ensures that briefing materials are available for the Minister, Deputy Minister and the Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance and Capital Planning to support budget announcements, Committee of Supply deliberations and other financial planning inquiries.
- Monitors and analyze forecast submissions against actual expenditures on a regular basis to identify potential issues and funding requirements.
- Ensures all issues that may impact the ability to balance the Ministry's budget are pro actively identified, with options and recommendations to address.
- Provides leadership, guidance and training to support career development and professional growth. A critical part of this deliverable is completion of annual Performance and Learning Plans for all direct reports and providing ongoing feedback and recognition in addition performance reviews and performance management.
- Ensures that decision makers (ET, Minister) are provided with timely and accurate analysis, and recommendations on which to base fiscal decisions in the development of the Ministry's budget.
- Ensure financial information provided to the Minister, ET, the Executive Director of Financial Planning Branch, and Director of Financial Planning - Health Entities Unit, is comprehensive, accurate, and timely. -This includes briefings for Treasury Board Committee and Committee of Supply.
- Oversees the consistent provision of high-quality financial services to the divisions by supervising and coaching the budget analysts who provide budgeting, forecasting and financial planning services.
- Monitors and reviews budget analysts entries into the government FATS system, ensuring updated entries are correct between the department and entities.

**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 -** 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.

**Agility -** Identifies and manages required change and the associated risks, identifies alternative approaches and supports others to do the same, proactively explains impact of changes, anticipates and mitigates emotions of others, anticipates obstacles and stays focused on goals and makes decisions and takes action in uncertain situations and creates a backup plan.

**Creative Problem Solving -** Engages the community and resources at hand to address issues, engages perspective to se