Competition # : 49572
Department: Service Nova Scotia
Location: HALIFAX
Type of Employment: Permanent
Union Status: NSGEU - NSPG
Closing Date: 19-Aug-26 (Applications are accepted until 11:59 PM Atlantic Time)
About Us
At Service Nova Scotia, we impact every citizen, business, and municipality in Nova Scotia. Our mandate is to design and deliver programs and services to meet the needs of our clients and the public good through a culture of excellence. Our vision is to be a recognized leader in service and public protection that delivers trusted, accessible, modern programs, and contributes to Nova Scotia as a safe and desirable place to live, work and do business.
To learn more about our department, please click Department of Service Nova Scotia - Government of Nova Scotia
About Our Opportunity
As the Financial Analyst (Financial Services Officer 2) and under the general direction of the Operational Accounting Coordinator, you will conduct accurate, timely, complex and in-depth financial reconciliations and reporting. In this critical role, you also provide expert business process advice, as well as options and recommendations to provincial government departments and agencies. In addition to this, you will research and monitor the processing of integrated pertinent vital financial data (salary, revenue, expenditure & balance sheet) to the Business Warehouse, which is critical to budgetary reporting and management decision making by the Advisory Services Teams of the province and used in the preparation of the Supplements to the Public Accounts and ministers’ briefing books. You also provide critical reconciliations, support and troubleshooting in the operations of complex financial systems, be up to date with general ledger and cost center master data changes, maintenance of specialized accounting records and reporting to the Canada Revenue Agency.
Primary Accountabilities
• Independently analyzes, monitors and reconciles salaries and expenditures for government-wide departments and agencies, e