Finance & Supply Management Officer

**Finance & Supply Management Officer**:
**Job ID**:

- 231692

**Posting status**:

- Open

**Organization**:

- Ontario Provincial Police

**Division**:

- Career Development Bureau

**City**:

- Orillia

**Position(s) language**:

- English

**Job term**:

- 1 Permanent

**Job code**:

- C0098 - Purchasing Officer, CDB

**Salary**:

- $1,391.70 - $1,637.41 Per week

**The Ministry of the Solicitor General, Ontario Provincial Police, and the Training and Recruitment Bureau is seeking a qualified individual to join our Strategic Research, and Planning Unit. In this exciting, rewarding and challenging opportunity, you will provide financial, purchasing, and administrative services to the Provincial Police Academy (PPA) through the efficient daily operation of the office while adhering to standard government directives, policies and procedures, while working closely with other areas of the organization.**

**About Us**:
The Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) is one of North America's largest deployed police services with more than 5,800 uniformed officers, 2,400 civilian employees and 830 Auxiliary officers. We provide essential services that ensure the safety and security of the people of the Province of Ontario. The OPP is a division of the Ministry of the Solicitor General, the largest operational ministry in the province with a presence in every community across Ontario. We are the largest police service in Ontario and the second largest in Canada.

The Culture and Strategy Services Command is responsible for key transformational change within the Ontario Provincial Police, allowing for greater capacity, better collaboration across provincial commands, and improved accountability to address key organizational functions. Continuous learning is fundamental to success wherever your OPP career takes you. The Provincial Police Academy strives to provide an excellent learning experience through our experienced and dedicated instructional staff, innovative course design, efficient planning, and administration. The Provincial Police Academy consists of the following units: 1) General Patrol Training (GPT), 2) In-Service Training (IST), 3) Strategic Research and Planning, and 4) Curriculum Design Unit & Senior Course Cadre.

The Strategic Research and Planning Unit (SRPU) is an award-winning team of dedicated professionals who provide innovative, creative and dynamic strategic initiatives, information, administration, technical expertise, research, analysis, and project planning for the Academy. As innovative leaders, SRPU members have won several Accolade Awards for Innovation and Creativity, recognizing their contribution to learning, solutions, and technical excellence.

The OPP Values promote always doing the right things for the right reasons, by:

- Serving with PRIDE, PROFESSIONALISM and HONOUR.
- Interacting with RESPECT, COMPASSION and FAIRNESS.
- Leading with INTEGRITY, HONESTY and COURAGE.

**What you bring to the team**:
**Mandatory requirements**:

- Ability to pass an OPP background/ security investigation.

**Procurement/Purchasing and Vendor Management**:

- Knowledge of financial and procurement policies, directives, guidelines and processes, financial administration.
- Knowledge of accounting to prepare and process forms, tender documents, Requests for Bid forms, and Purchase Requisitions/Orders.
- Knowledge of budget policies, procedures guidelines and directives to perform purchasing and financial activities accurately and to reflect approved spending within the Training and Recruitment Bureau.
- Knowledge of purchasing procedures for transacting paperwork related to the procurement process, for processing and reconciling purchases of goods and services, managing encumbrances, developing and maintaining a Supply Management Plan.

**Data Analytics**:

- Knowledge of/ability to learn various computer databases and systems (e.g. IFIS, CMDB, WIN/DAR, Pro-Con, ONRequest) to input data, update and/or recover data from procurement and financial records/files and produce ad hoc and regular financial reports.
- Ability to use mathematical skills to perform calculations, check for accuracy of invoices, expenses, process accounts payable/receivable and review budgets.

**Interpersonal and Communication Skills**:

- Written communication skills to prepare documents, reports and correspondence.
- Oral communication and interpersonal skills to assist staff on purchasing processes and procedures, and financial transactions.
- Ability to provide information and clarification on delivery time of goods/services, associated practices and reports, and to discuss and resolve discrepancies, omissions and delivery issues.
- Ability to use active listening skills when gathering information from a variety of sources relating to financial and procurement activities and to take instructions from a supervisor.

**Problem Solving/Analytical Skills**:

- Ability to assess if insufficient or unclear information is provided and