Government of Northwest Territories
This Job Opening is limited to employees with the GNWT/WSCC in indeterminate and term positions.
Employees must apply through HRIS / Employee Self-Service.
For instructions please see: The Department of Finance has the mandate to provide leadership and direction to the public service in all areas of finance and human resource management.
This mandate includes negotiating major financial arrangements with the federal government, providing analysis and advice to the Financial Management Board, and ensuring that financial and information resources are managed effectively, efficiently and economically.
This mandate also includes the recruitment and retention of a competent public service that is representative of the people it serves andthe development of programs and services that effectively serve the human resource needs of the public service.
Job Information You would be in a senior budgeting position within the GNWT with the responsibility to provide direction and advice to all departments with respect to the budgeting cycle and the preparation of the government’s budgets.
You would beresponsible for interpreting and applying the legal requirements of the Financial Administration Act as they pertain to the budgeting cycle and ensuring that the budget development conforms to requirements set out in legislation.
To be successful in this role you would typicallay ahve a professional accouting designation, in addition to at least 5 years of relevant experience.