Financial Analyst, Capital Projects

Salary range: The salary range for this position is CAD $38.12 - $54.80 / hour Why Fraser Health?:
Fraser Health is the second largest health system in Canada with over 45,000 staff, medical staff and volunteers, and is the largest of five regional health authorities in British Columbia, providing hospital and community-based health services to nearly 2 million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.

Are you ready to take your capital project management to the next level? We are looking for a dedicated and detail-oriented Financial Analyst to join our team in Central City, Surrey, BC, and play a pivotal role in managing multi-year capital and operating plans.

As a Financial Analyst, you’ll be at the heart of the action, assisting with the development, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of critical capital and operating budgets. Your expertise will be key to ensuring cost control and effective governance across approved capital projects, from initial startup through ongoing operations.

**What You'll Do**:
**Strategic Planning & Execution**: Help develop annual multi-year plans, ensuring they align with organizational goals and financial targets.**Budget Management**: Assist in managing both capital and operating budgets, providing timely and accurate reporting on expenditures.**Cost Analysis & Reporting**: Prepare detailed budget reports, track expenditures, and perform scenario analysis to assess cost impacts and recommend improvements.**Financial Governance**: Maintain budget data, track variances, and support executive and government reporting, ensuring transparency and accountability.**Collaborative Team Support**: Work alongside the project team to compile, reconcile, and deliver financial insights that drive decision-making.

If you’re passionate about finance, project management, and making a tangible impact, this is the role for you. This full-time position as a Financial Analyst for Capital Projects is located at the Central City Tower in Surrey, BC.

Let’s build the future, together. Join our team today

Detailed Overview:
**Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health**:
The Financial Analyst provides assistance to clients through the capital and operating planning process by providing guidance on available funding; assists clients establish appropriate priorities on capital purchases; prepares and maintains the capital and operating planning records and funding requests for capital acquisition across assigned Fraser Heath (FH) projects.

**Responsibilities**:

- Prepares the annual multi-year plans for assigned projects by assisting with the development, implementation, maintenance and enhancement of the capital and operating planning processes. Assist with cost control and governance of the approved Capital, start up and ongoing operational budgets. Monitors and tracks expenditures against contracts.
- Prepares capital and operating budget reports per period in order to identify, investigate and report on variances. Undertakes costing scenarios with the various budget clients by gathering and sorting information, preparing and reconciling spreadsheets to determine financial cost impacts. Enters and maintains the budget information annually in the budget database and updates as required.
- Assists with the preparation of the period financial reports to the project team, government, and FH Executive by compiling and reconciling information from the capital and operating budgets; assists with the preparation of year-end working papers and provides support to schedules and reports.
- Participates in the Capital Equipment working group, which involves the various finance stakeholders to develop an equipment procurement strategy that is in alignment with project budget and FHA policy. Keeping track of Capital Control Numbers for all equipment acquisitions of assigned projects and works with Capital Accounting and others, as appropriate; revises the capital plan to reflect the control numbers and any changes to the plan; maintains funding allocation records to match approved acquisitions.
- Supports the Project Controller / designated leader by ensuring that capital and operating expenditure approvals achieve anticipated outcomes as they relate to the scope, schedule, and budget of the original approval; provides advisories to ensure that appropriate adjustments are made throughout the process.
- Serves on assigned Budget Review Committee(s); communicates implications of decisions of the Committee to the Project Controller/ designated leader and updates the Capital Plan forecast as appropriate. Supports in updating annual cash flow and forecasts for all budgets.
- Assists in the development and maintenance of the assigned projects asset management system by compiling and providing information, as required.
- Participates on other assignments as required by project team.

Qualifications**:Education and Experience**
CPA recognized professional accounting desig