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About the Role
This position supports financial operations across the Eastern District, providing financial leadership and coordination for approximately $135 million in annual maintenance and capital budgets, and leading a distributed team of Financial Services Officers and Clerks.
Responsibilities
- Provide strong people leadership to a distributed team of financial professionals, fostering collaboration, accountability, and continuous improvement across all district offices.
- Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, and expenditure control processes across district Highway Programs.
- Manage a multidisciplinary financial team located across multiple offices within the district, providing leadership, coaching, training, and performance management.
- Develop and implement financial policies, procedures, and internal controls to ensure accuracy, compliance, and accountability.
- Provide strategic advice and financial analysis to guide resource allocation and program delivery.
- Coordinate with Finance and Treasury Board (FTB) to ensure compliance with audit and reporting standards.
- Lead financial risk management and process improvement initiatives across the district.
- Promote collaboration and communication through regular reporting, meetings, and presentations.
- Ensure effective human and financial resource management while promoting diversity, inclusion, and workplace safety.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field.
- Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in good standing, or eligible for membership in a recognized international accounting body.
- Several years of progressively responsible experience in financial management, including staff supervision and strategic planning.
- Proven experience with public sector financial practices, Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), and Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) standards.
- Strong leadership, coaching, and performance management abilities.
- Demonstrated success in leading and developing teams across multiple locations, with a focus on engagement, performance, and professional growth.
- Experience in building positive, collaborative relationships across your organization to support shared success.
- Skill in managing multiple high-priority assignments under tight and often conflicting deadlines.
- Proven ability to exercise sound judgment and maintain confidentiality when handling sensitive financial or personnel information.
- Proficiency in SAP or other enterprise financial management systems.
- Excellent communication and problem-solving skills.
- A record of innovation and process improvement in financial operations.
- Maintain a high level of productivity in a fast-paced, high volume, and complex environment.
- Use discretion when dealing with confidential and sensitive financial information.
Skills
- Financial leadership
- Budget planning
- Forecasting
- Expenditure control
- Financial reporting
- Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP)
- Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) standards
- Government financial policies
- People leadership
- Team management
- Coaching
- Training
- Performance management
- Financial policy development
- Procedure development
- Internal controls
- Strategic advice
- Financial analysis
- Resource allocation
- Program delivery
- Compliance
- Audit standards
- Reporting standards
- Financial risk management
- Process improvement
- Collaboration
- Communication
- Human resource management
- Financial resource management
- Diversity
- Inclusion
- Workplace safety
- SAP
- Enterprise financial management systems
- Problem-solving
- Innovation
Location
- SYDNEY RIVER
- Antigonish
- Sydney Area Offices
Work Type
- Permanent
- Office environment
- Travel within the province
Experience Level
- Several years of progressively responsible experience in financial management
- Staff supervision
- Strategic planning
Education Level
- Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Business Administration, or a related field
- Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) in good standing, or eligible for membership in a recognized international accounting body
Salary/Compensations
- $3,571.99 - $4,465.03 Bi-Weekly
Benefits
- Defined Benefit Pension Plan
- Health
- Dental
- Life Insurance
- General illness
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Vacation
- Employee and Family Assistance Programs
- Career Development
- Career guidance
- Tools
- Resources
- Ongoing training
- Engaging workplace
- Forward-thinking policies and strategies
- Countless career paths
About the Company
- We are currently seeking a District Finance Manager to provide strategic financial leadership within one of our Highway Program districts.
- This position supports financial operations across the Eastern District, providing financial leadership and coordination for approximately $135 million in annual maintenance and capital budgets, and leading a distributed team of Financial Services Officers and Clerks.
- Your work will directly support informed decision-making at both the district and departmental level, contributing to the financial integrity and effectiveness of Nova Scotia’s highway programs.
Equal Opportunity
- We are a diverse workforce that is representative, at all job levels, of the citizens we serve.
- The Government of Nova Scotia has an Employment Equity Policy, and we welcome applications from Indigenous People, African Nova Scotians and Other Racially Visible Persons, Persons with Disabilities and Women in occupations or positions where they are under-represented.
- We are committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
- Candidates may request accommodations based on any grounds protected by the Human Rights Act.