Description
Are you looking to develop your accounting career while helping move the City towards sustainable growth and development? Join the Client Financial Services team as an Accountant working with the Land Enterprise group. This unique Accountant position supports full-cycle accounting to land enterprise staff and senior finance staff while providing specialized accounting knowledge and performing non-routine accounting transactions.
As an Accountant in this distinctive role, your wide range of duties include:
- Maintaining an understanding of all land development activities to prepare and update long range land development models ensuring alignment to proforma forecasts, capital spending forecasts, and operational developmental plans
- Overseeing land inventory transactional costing allocations and maintenance of land holding records, ensuring accurate allocation between municipal purpose and land resale
- Preparing monthly performance reports for various Directors, including variance analysis, monthly progress reports for land development activities, and capital performance reports
- Conducting financial analysis to support operating and capital budget development
- Maintaining necessary financial budget documentation to support budget submissions including personnel, land development and sales models, service packages, and cost model analysis to support interdepartmental charges and recoveries
- Updating capital budgets as required
- Overseeing and maintaining SAP projection changes and budget loads within specified timelines
- Identifying and executing required year-end journal entries, overseeing year-end procedures, and following year-end cut off schedules. Communicating these year-end expectations with land enterprise staff to ensure deadlines are met
- Identifying efficient uses of data systems (SAP, POSSE, Budget) to streamline processes, while troubleshooting systems
- Identifying control weaknesses and reporting potential options for improvements
Requirements
- A professional Accounting designation (CA, CMA, CGA) OR an accounting-related Business Degree (bachelor or applied)
- Three (3) years of progressively responsible accounting experience, including full cycle, year-end accounting experience
- Knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles, requirements and practices
- A knowledge of the corporate financial system (SAP) and its inter-relationship to departmental accounting operations would be an asset
- Ability to think logically and complete work with a high degree of accuracy
- Ability to make decisions and problem solve independently within the scope of the position
- Strong Excel, Word and database skills required. Familiarity with Google Docs, Google Gmail, POSSE, and Budget is an asset
- Ability to prepare a variety of complex and diverse financial statements and reports
- Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing
- Ability maintain working relationships with all levels of management and non-management personnel
- Applicants may be tested
Salary & Benefits
Hours of Work: 33.75 hours per week, Monday - Friday. Hours of work may be subject to the terms and conditions of a variable hours of work program
Salary Range: 21M, Salary Grade: 025, $35.631 - $44.736 (Hourly), $62,772.91 - $78,813.65 (Annually). The rates quoted are in accordance with a collective agreement between the Union and the City of Edmon
Contact
Email: employment@edmonton.ca
Edmonton, City
Third Floor, City Hall, #1 Sir Winston Churchill Square
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T5J 2R7
Other relevant information
APPLY ONLINE at www.edmonton.ca/careers and search for Job# 12954
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