The Senior Financial Systems & Analytics Specialist is responsible for providing advanced financial analytics, systems leadership, and enterprise level reporting modernization for a large health authority. The role leads major transformation initiatives that shift Finance from manual, spreadsheet-based processes to automated, standardized, and technology enabled systems. This position works across multiple finance, HR, IT, and operational teams to improve data quality, enhance decision support capabilities, and implement financial planning, forecasting, and reporting tools.
Duties:
· Review current needs assessments to determine functional, data, reporting, and control requirements for the new financial system.
Assess current-state manual and Excel-based processes and define future-state workflows, business requirements, data structures, reporting needs, and control frameworks to support standardized, automated operations
· Evaluates software options in collaboration with Finance leadership, IT, and vendors to select an appropriate solution.
· Coordinates operational configuration, testing, and integration
· Develops standardized processes, financial data structures, and reporting frameworks to support the system’s implementation.
· Plans and execute data migration activities, including mapping, cleansing, validation, and reconciliation.
· Designs workflows, controls, and documentation to ensure accuracy, security, and compliance in the new system.
· Leads implementation activities including training, communication, user support, and change management planning.
· Develop, test, and implement automated reports, certified datasets, and Power BI dashboards to replace recurring manual Excel reporting and analysis.
· Oversee go-live, stabilization, and continuous improvement activities to ensure long-term system success and user adoption.
· Identify and evaluate reporting requirements with the Finance team
· Identify and evaluate Human Resource division data to determine integration into Finance’s datasets
· Establish data governance practices, including master data standards, data quality checks, and reconciliation controls.
· Create a roadmap for ongoing enhancements, self-service scaling, and continuous improvement of analytics capabilities
· Assesses financial data requirements for specific analysis, reporting, or decision-support tasks.
· Determines the best methods to extract and combine data into a usable, validated format for Finance
· Builds repeatable processes or pipelines to automate data extraction, transformation, and preparation
· Lead the conversion of manual spreadsheet processes to automated, system-based solutions, improving efficiency, consistency, data integrity, and governance.
· Provides training, documentation, and ongoing support while continuously improving forecasting tools based on feedback, operational changes, and collective agreement updates.
Minimum Qualifications:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Business Administration, Data/Business Analytics, or Health Administration; a Master’s degree (MFin, MAcc, MBA, MHA, Data Analytics) is an asset.
· Professional designation CPA (or progress toward), CFA or equivalent considered an asset.
· Extensive experience with ERP finance systems (e.g., SAP S/4HANA, Oracle Cloud/PeopleSoft Financials) and BI/reporting tools (Power BI, BOE, SAP Crystal Reports).
· Extensive experience in SQL and advanced Excel (Power Query/Power Pivot); experience with R/Python for financial modelling/statistics is an asset.
· Extensive experience building driver-based forecasts, cost models, dashboards, and/or analytics products.
· Knowledge of public sector/healthcare finance, funding models, and Public Sector Accounting Standards (PSAS); familiarity with collective agreement costing and payroll integrations.
· Strong skills in data governance, master data, data quality, and controls; experience with data warehousing and integrations (e.g., ETL).
· Proven proficiency and considerable experience in working with health and/or IT systems and databases.
· Project and change management capability (planning, risk, stakeholder engagement); ability to thrive in a complex, rapidly changing environment and meet multiple, time-sensitive deadlines.
· Excellent collaboration, communication, and influencing skills; ability to lead cross-functional initiatives
Other Qualifications:
· PMP, Lean Six Sigma, or Prosci/change management training.
· Experience with enterprise planning tools (e.g., Anaplan, Workday Adaptive Planning, SAP BPC).
· Experience with case costing, patient-level costing, or productivity analytics in health systems.
Important Notes:
Please ensure the application clearly demonstrates how you meet the noted qualifications as applicants will be screened based on the information provided. We would like to thank all applicants for their interest; however, only those who are selected for an interview will be contacted.
Successful applicants are expected to complete the term of temporary assignment unless appointed to a permanent position.
This competition may be used to fill future job vacancies.
Salary Range: $48.58 - $59.87 per hour (Level 21)
Bi-Weekly Hours: 75 hours bi-weekly / Mon - Fri
Posting ID: 173188
Closing Date: Thursday June 4, 2026 at 4:00pm
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Pay: $48.58-$74.63 per hour
Work Location: In person
