Financial officer
Position description
Key activities
- Provide financial advice for procurement of essential services and supplies
- Process payroll and accounts
- Prepare financial reports
- Process supplier invoices and lease agreements
- Close financial accounts in database prior to closing the RO office
- Perform other duties as requested by the RO
Qualifications
Experience
- Processing accounting and payroll
- Operating an automated accounts system
- Interpreting and monitoring leasing and supplier arrangements
- Using Windows-based computer applications
Knowledge of (acquired from training)
- ROPS/SITES application
- Payroll legislation as it applies to poll workers
- Financial Officer's Manual Process for payments to office staff, election officers and landlords
- Maintaining and recording expenditures
Abilities
- Organizational skills to understand the substance of the work and how best to achieve it
- Planning and scheduling skills to allocate and track time spent on work and to estimate workload requirements
- Budgeting skills to monitor and track office budgets
- Analytical reasoning skills to understand and synthesize issues, identify relevant information and formulate an opinion
- Conflict resolution skills to address issues that arise between and among workers and/or suppliers
- Proofreading skills to verify the accuracy of the work, wording or terms of various agreements, payroll and tax provisions
- Listening and reading skills to perceive, interpret and/or understand messages, concepts or ideas, written instructions in various manuals/guides and directives from RO, EC or others
- Communication skills to effectively provide instructions/information to workers, suppliers, landlords, etc., discuss issues and provide appropriate responses
- Keyboarding proficiency to create electronic messages, written instructions and to capture data in EC's systems
Personal suitability
- Remains impartial in all dealings during electoral event
- Maintains a professional demeanour and exercise judgment and tact
- Works in teams and contribute as a team member
- Completes tasks and assignments
- Provides advance warning of significant change in availability
Other
Must be eligible to obtain a security clearance (processed by EC)