The salary range for this position is CAD $54.16 - $77.86 / hour
Job Summary
Fraser Health is the second largest health system in Canada with over 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers, and is the largest of five regional health authorities in British Columbia, providing hospital and community-based health services to nearly 2 million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley.
Join us on an exciting project and make history! The New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre is a landmark project. To be located on a greenfield site, this project will be the first net new hospital in BC in nearly 20 years. If you are passionate about leadership, innovation and project management, we want you to bring your outstanding skills to our team.
The project is complex and involves the integration of a community hospital with a regional cancer centre under one roof. The project will be constructed in a single phase and is anticipated to complete in 2030. This future focused hospital promises to be progressive not only in its clinical care delivery but also in its infrastructure design. When complete, the new facility will feature key acute care services including virtual health, inpatient, outpatient, emergency and surgical services integrated with a cancer centre focused on cancer care, treatment, research and education.
If you are passionate about leadership, innovation and project management, we want you to bring your outstanding skills to our team. Bring your project management, creative problem solving and team leadership expertise to this exciting role with our Design and Construction team, where you will strive to make a difference to patients, families and care givers who depend on dynamic facility environments to support specialized care.
Position Highlights:
We are seeking a Full Time Financial Manager, Major Capital with a demonstrated background in accounting, project management and leadership. You will be responsible for the capital planning, comptrollership, cash flow tracking and reporting of the New Surrey Hospital and BC Cancer Centre and related major capital projects, while maintaining strategic business partnerships and developing financial budgets and financial service goals for all aspects of related projects within Fraser Health. This position is located at the Central City Office in Surrey, BC.
If this sounds like the ideal role for you, here are more reasons why we think you should apply:
- A career that offers you the opportunity to work in a fast growing and exciting organization with professionals who are outstanding in their respective fields.
- Competitive salary package, including comprehensive health benefits coverage.
Are you passionate about setting direction focused on building an engaging environment that challenges others to achieve their goals? In a career with Fraser Health, you will be a part of a dedicated team in a vibrant and fulfilling health care environment. We value diversity in the work force and seek to maintain an environment of Respect, Caring & Trust.
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Detailed Overview
Supporting the Vision, Values, Purpose and Commitments of Fraser Health including service delivery that is centered around patients/clients/residents and families:
Responsible for the capital planning, comptrollership, cash flow tracking and reporting of Fraser Health's (FH) major capital projects; develops the financial budgets and financial service goals for all aspects of designated projects within FH; builds and maintains strategic business partnerships, promotes and facilitates innovation in capital resource management with Facilities Planning, internal and external clients to develop designated plans for FH; develops budget estimates, undertakes analyses and develops financial models to ensure complete and accurate financial information is used in the development and implementation of major capital projects; maintains contact with the Ministry of Health for reporting, claims, approvals and related matters; leads subsequent business analysis and provides recommendations to ensure that implementation of assigned major capital projects are consistent with FH goals and objectives.Responsibilities
Business and Procurement Modeling
- Develops short and long term budget assumptions/goals to be used in the development of project financials for designated capital projects; works with project teams and external advisors to analyze and quantify project risks.
- Supports the financial management of the designated capital project(s) through budget preparation, monitoring and reporting expenditures and variance analysis; contributes to the development and review of requisite financial models.
- Develops, recommends and implements appropriate policies, procedures and systems for assigned projects to simplify workflow and meet regulatory and/or contractual requirements; problem-solves and provides education to users, where appropriate.
- Provides comptrollership and business functions for assigned capital projects; prepares financial reports and manages the payment stream utilizing input from FH Accounting Services and Ministry of Health; ensures that financial reports comply to a number of parameters as required by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), Ministry of Health, FH Executive and FH accounting policies.
- Leads a team of external advisors in the development of procurement options and funding analyses; provides project advisors with information needed to undertake their analyses and to undertake quality assurance review of their outputs.
- Monitors changes in project assumptions in order to identify and quantify their budgetary and financial impact; develops revised and/or amended project financial forecasts, budgets and other related information as needed.
Pre-Construction Cost Estimates and Budget Development
- Works with key internal staff and external consultants to develop pre-construction capital cost estimate budgets for designated major capital projects, including operating and start-up budgets.
- Based on pre-construction estimates, leads the creation, development and implementation of detailed operational budgets for designated capital projects.
- Monitors changes in order to identify and quantify their budgetary impact; develops revised and/or amended capital and operating financial forecasts, budgets and other related information as needed.
Project Accounting and Financial Reporting
- Leads project accounting to monitor the financial aspects of project implementation.
- Develops a capital cash flow forecast for assigned capital projects by working with internal stakeholders such as Facilities Planning to identify project timelines and associated cash spending for internal cash management for submission to the Ministry of Health.
- Provides financial oversight of the Project Agreement including payment mechanism, policy changes, cash management, tracking and applicable reporting of the Project Agreement components.
- Provides controllership and business functions for assigned projects; prepares financial reports and manages the payment stream utilizing information from Accounting Services and the Ministry; ensures financial reports comply with required parameters as required by GAAP, the Ministry, FH Executive and FH accounting policies.
- Manages the payment stream from the Ministry of Health during project construction including the payment mechanism and cash flow during operations.
- Identifies potential financial risks and issues and provides recommendations regarding risk mitigation/resolution to the Director, Financial Planning.
- Collaborates with other FH financial team members to develop appropriate financial reporting of projects and project accounting.
- Acts as a Finance resource and contact person with the Ministry of Health for requisite information and related financial queries such as business plan submissions, approvals, claims, capital plan and cash flow forecasts.
- Represents FH on internal and external committees and/or boards, where applicable.
Qualifications
Education and Experience
CPA recognized professional accounting designation.
Seven (7) years' recent related financial accounting experience with capital projects and project management including two (2) years' supervisory experience, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Competencies
Demonstrates the leadership practices of the Fraser Health Leadership Framework of Clear, Caring and Courageous and creates the conditions for people to succeed.
Professional/Technical Capabilities:
- Demonstrated experience in business case development
- Working knowledge of construction or major capital projects
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of Canadian finance, accounting concepts, principles and GAAP
- Knowledge of financial analysis methodologies including experience in the development and review of financial models
- Ability to effectively work independently or with others as a member of a team
- Ability to organize, plan, prioritize, multi-task and problem solve in a dynamic environment with changing priorities
- Ability to operate related equipment including applicable software applications
- Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
About Fraser Health
Fraser Health is the heart of health care for over two million people in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada, on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Coast Salish and Nlaka’pamux Nations and is home to 32 First Nations within the Fraser Salish region.
People - those we care for and those who care for them - are at the heart of everything we do. Our hospital and community-based services are delivered by a team of 48,000+ staff, medical staff and volunteers.
We are committed to planetary health and value diversity in the work force. We strive to maintain an environment of respect, caring and trust. Fraser Health’s hiring practices aspire to ensure all individuals are treated in an inclusive, equitable and culturally safe manner.
Together, we are the heart of health care.
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