Manager, Financial Statistics

Role Responsibilities

Reporting to the Director, Data and Statistical Services, the Manager, Financial Statistics leads a team responsible for producing and analyzing financial statistics, supporting cross government financial reporting, and coordinating statistical activities across ministries. The role provides strategic insights to support budgeting, fiscal planning, and policy development, including analysis of Alberta’s fiscal position, government financial trends (e.g., taxation and labour costs), and business and industry financial performance.
This position also oversees the development of high quality financial reporting products to support ministry and corporate planning. In addition, it builds strong partnerships across government and with Statistics Canada to ensure timely access to reliable data, while supporting national statistical initiatives and maintaining Alberta’s role as a key statistical partner.

Responsibilities Includes but are not limited to:

• Leads the analysis of financial data related to industry sectors, business activity, cost structures, investment patterns, and other economic indicators to support policy development, strategic decision-making, and economic reporting.
• Assess data related to personal and corporate income statistics, taxation patterns, revenue sources, and related fiscal trends to provide insights into household and business income trends and inform fiscal planning.
• Lead the development and enhancement of financial reporting products that address information gaps and support ministry and corporate financial planning.
• Coordinate collection of feedback from financial reporting stakeholders across ministries to identify gaps, clarify data needs, and inform the future state of financial reporting in the Government of Alberta.
• Work closely with Statistics Canada to coordinate access to custom data, administrative datasets, and statistical resources.
• Supervise and mentor staff responsible for financial statistics analysis, financial reporting data and statistical activities coordination, ensuring alignment with OSI's mandate. 

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APS Competencies

Competencies are behaviors that are essential to reach our goals in serving Albertans. We encourage you to have an in depth understanding of the competencies that are required for this opportunity and to be prepared to demonstrate them during the recruitment process.

This link will assist you with understanding competencies:
https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/custom_downloaded_images/psc-alberta-public-service-competency-model.pdf.

Systems Thinking - Consistently takes a holistic and long-term view of challenges and opportunities at multiple levels across related areas. 

Build Collaborative Environments - Engages others to think broadly about impacts of projects, brings differing perspectives together and encourages debate. Works with others to identify and remove barriers.

Creative Problem Solving - Explores different methods in how we complete our work, with a goal to achieving more efficient and effective outcomes.

Develop Self and Others - Shares learning experiences with others and works with team to create a plan on how learning can be applied more broadly within the group.

Qualifications

Requirements:

University graduation in Finance, Economics, and Social Science or other related field plus four years progressively responsible related experience.

Related experience or education may be considered as an equivalency on a one for one basis.

Assets:

• Significant experience in financial analysis, financial statistics, income tax statistics, economics, or related analytical fields.
• Experience leading teams or analytical functions in a complex organizational environment.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and consultation skills, including working with finance, IT/IMT, privacy, legal, and program areas to resolve complex data issues.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to translate complex financial/statistical insights into clear, actionable advice for senior decision‑makers.
• Demonstrated project management skills, including planning, risk management, and delivery of multi‑stakeholder analytical or data initiatives.
• Proven supervisory and people‑leadership skills, including performance management, coaching, workload planning, and fostering analytical excellence.
• Strong applied statistical and analytical skills using tools such as SAS, R, Python, SQL, and Power BI.
• Knowledge of Statistics Canada products and services is an asset, including survey products, custom tabulations, classifications, microdata access, and data quality frameworks.
• A master’s degree in a related field.

A cover letter must accompany your application and should indicate how your previous work experience aligns to the qualifications and competencies required. Please provide clear examples of how you meet the criteria and skills required in your cover letter. Failure to provide a cover letter will lead to the application being screened out. A cover letter will be one of the ways to assess communication skills of candidates.  

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. For example, January 2006 – June 2009 (part-time). This example is provided for illustrative purposes only. Applicants are encouraged to present their information clearly and thoroughly, using a format that best conveys their experience.

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification. 
Refer to https://www.alberta.ca/alberta-public-service-minimum-recruitment-standards.

Notes

This position is a permanent full-time role with the standard weekly work hours of 36.25, Monday to Friday (in office)

Final candidates will be required to undergo a security screening.

• Final candidates will be required to undergo a criminal records check (CRC).
• Applicants being considered for this position will be required to complete a level 2 Security screening (including an enhanced criminal record check as part of the pre-employment checks for this position.
  
  

Any costs associated with obtaining the required documents/checks as noted or interview travel expenses will be the responsibility of the candidate. Out-of-province applicants can obtain the required documents/checks from the province they currently reside in.

What the Government of Alberta has to offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service
• Management Employee Pension Plan (MEPP)
• Alberta Public Service Benefit Information
• Professional learning and development
• Research Alberta Public Service Careers tool
• Positive workplace culture and work-life balance.