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Chartered Professional Accountants Pre-Approved Program Route (CPA PPR) Candidate - Accounting and Reporting, Controllership

Job ID:

244234

Posting status:

Open

Organization:

Ministry of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement

Division:

Corporate Services Division

City:

Toronto

Position(s) language:

English

Job term:

2 Temporary up to 32 months

Job code:

4A001 - Finance04

Salary:

$75,185.00 - $105,116.00 Per year

Attention Chartered Professional Accountants (CPA) of Ontario Students!

The Ontario Public Service (OPS) is seeking to add new talent to its already dynamic finance community of professionals, who proudly deliver financial analysis and services that enable the achievement of government priorities and business results.

Bring your valued financial experiences to this important role and help us enable our clients to reach ministry goals and commitments through quality planning and financial services that add value and are responsive and accurate.

The Ministry CPA Pre-approved Program Route (PPR), housed in a ministry corporate finance branch, enables CPA Candidate to acquire practical experience, one of the key components needed for CPA designation eligibility. The program also provides an efficient, clear path for learning and mentorship.

The successful job candidate will be required to be registered with CPA Ontario and be eligible for enrolment in or be already enrolled in CPA Ontario's Professional Education Program (PEP). Over a period of 32 months, the CPA candidate will undertake tasks and projects designed to build the technical and enabling competencies required of an entry-level CPA. The candidate will be given responsibilities in financial reporting, management accounting, assurance and audit, and strategy and governance of increasing complexity and autonomy as aligned with CPA Canada's Competency Map.

In addition to directly reporting to a manager/supervisor, the candidate, at a minimum, twice a year, will meet with their assigned CPA mentor who will provide guidance and assess the candidate's progress on building CPA enabling competencies.

At the conclusion of the 32-month contract position, the CPA candidate will have completed the practical experience requirements for CPA designation eligibility.

About the job

As the corporate accounting and reporting team, controllership is the key point of contact between ministry clients and central agencies. Every day will be a little different, but you can expect it to include activities like:

• providing advice, interpretation, and support of the ministry's internal control framework to ensure effective financial management systems and internal controls for the ministry
• providing a full range of controllership analysis and services, to meet both ministry-specific and corporate controllership requirements, including financial reporting and analysis, control assessments, financial delegations, and evaluation of accounting standard/directive/policy compliance
• providing technical guidance and support, centralized accounting, financial analysis and systems data reconciliation to support ministry financial reporting and consistency of ministry accounting/reporting activities

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