Financial Services Specialist

Reporting to the Financial Services, the Financial Services Specialist will provide financial planning, budgeting, reporting, and internal control-related expertise to the assigned client group. In this role, you'll prepare budgets and variance analysis and interpret and apply financial policies per WorkSafeBC corporate financial structure. The financial services specialist will be part of a larger Financial Services team and be a trusted advisor to the operational clients while maintaining financial oversight and governance.

How You'll Make a Difference

How you'll make a difference: You'll help protect the financial integrity of B.C.'s workers' compensation system.

Where will you work

At WorkSafeBC, we offer a model that combines the convenience of some remote work **** with the dynamism of working in one of our offices, based on the operational needs of the position.

In this role, you'll work three or more days a week in our Richmond office.

• Assists in coordinating the annual budget preparation.
• Review month-end reports of cost centers to identify significant variances and trends and lead the investigation to determine appropriate action to address the situation.
• Provides training on budgeting and other financial and administrative policies and procedures
• Analyze and summarize data for decision-making and research topics to provide information and resolve issues.
• Assists in developing policies and procedures related to financial and administrative matters.
• Assists with special projects for the Corporate Controllers Department, ensuring timely completion and implementation.
  
  

We're Looking For Someone Who Can

• Clearly and professionally present project or task information to a variety of technical and non-technical individuals, both verbally and in writing
• Gather and analyze information, evaluate alternate solutions, and recommend appropriate courses of action
• Apply working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) and/or general knowledge of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS)
• Build relationships with clients
  
  

Your background and experience

• Post-secondary education , plus completion of a professional accounting designation (CPA)
• A minimum of one year of directly related experience in private or public accounting
• Knowledge and experience with financial systems (PeopleSoft) is an asset
• We'll consider an equivalent combination of education and experience.
  
  

Cover letters are not mandatory but welcome.

Important to know

Before we can finalize any offer of employment, you must:

• Consent to a criminal record check / Successfully meet two different criminal record clearances, one of which meets the legal requirements under the Criminal Records Review
  
  

WorkSafeBC's COVID-19 Employee Mandatory Vaccine Policy (the "Policy") is suspended effective January 9, 2023, however we reserve the right to re-implement it in response to changes in the public health landscape, including public health orders. We are committed to the protection, health, and safety of our employees and our Communicable Disease Prevention Program and related protocols remain in effect.

Who We Are

At WorkSafeBC, we promote safe and healthy workplaces across British Columbia. We partner with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability. When work-related injuries or diseases occur, we provide compensation and support injured workers in their recovery, rehabilitation, and safe return to work. We're honored to serve the 2.49 million workers and 263,000 registered employers in our province.

What's like to work at WorkSafeBC?

It's challenging, stimulating, and rewarding. Our positions offer diversity and opportunities for professional growth. Every day, the work we do impacts people and changes lives. What we do is important, and so are the people we do it for.

Our ability to make a difference relies on building a team with a rich variety of skills, knowledge, backgrounds, abilities, and experiences that reflects the diversity of the people we serve. We are committed to fostering a welcoming, inclusive, and supportive work culture where everyone can contribute as their best, authentic self.

Learn more: Discover who we are .

Our Benefits

As a member of our team, you'll have access to services and benefits that help you get the most out of work — and life. Along with a competitive salary, your total compensation package includes:

• Defined benefit pension plan that provides you with a lifetime monthly pension when you retire
• 4 weeks of vacation in your first year, with regular increases based on years of service
• Benefits package that includes customizable options for health care and dental benefits, additional days off, and a health care spending account
• Optional leave arrangements
• Development opportunities (tuition reimbursement, leadership development, and more)
  
  

Learn more: Find out what we offer .

Salary: $84,471 - $102,632 annually

Want to apply?

• Applications are welcomed immediately, however must be received no later than 4:30 p.m. PST on the closing date.
• Please note that we will be starting assessments prior to the closing date.
• We encourage all qualified applicants to apply. If you require an accommodation in the assessment process, please email Recruitment Testing Accommodation (SM) when you submit your application.