Junior Accounting Services Analyst

Employment Type: Permanent Full-time

Location(s): SK-Rgna-Regina

Salary Range: $24.037 - $30.124 Hourly

Who is eHealth?
eHealth Saskatchewan is a Treasury Board Crown Corporation with a unique blend of healthcare, information technology, and citizen services. Our vision is “Connected healthcare, accessible to everyone, everywhere” with a mission to “Collaborate to transform healthcare through the use of information and innovative technology”. It is a complex environment, constantly evolving and quickly changing as we live our values of excellence, integrity, teamwork, courage, resilience and collaboration.

A large and complex organization, eHealth is comprised of 30+ clinical and non-clinical program (service) areas that all work together to support health care providers and teams across the province in delivering the best possible care to patients, providers, citizens, and health system users. Programs range from primary care to acute care, and includes laboratories, pharmaceuticals, and diagnostics. Additional programs that also support patient care and information include Virtual Care, the MySaskHealthRecord, and the Provincial Electronic Health Record. eHealth is also responsible for the administration of various pieces of legislation to manage the registration of/changes to all vital event records (e.g. birth, marriage, death, etc.), registration of legal name changes, registration of adoptions, and for maintaining the provincial health registry for health services eligibility and distribution of health services cards.

The eHealth teams engage directly with health system partners and other stakeholders both provincially and federally to ensure all services are delivered efficiently and effectively.

About the Role & Typical Daily Duties
In this role, you will work in a fast-paced environment where you will have the opportunity to apply your practical knowledge within a diverse financial system that works to support the health system. This position supports eHealth Saskatchewan’s financial services team in coding, entering invoices, and making supplier payments. As eHealth evolves and grows, this position must be able to broadly support the finance function including Accounts Payable and Receivable.

For this well-rounded role, we are looking for an enthusiastic individual with an eagerness to learn in order to grow our team and support in the development of a new accounting professional.

The successful candidate will be able to review reference materials and identify changes from previous year’s procedures, ensure compliance with policies, and prepare/communicate with eHealth management and external stakeholders on year-end processes and deadlines. This position is also responsible for ensuring budget allocations are correct, verifying information provided from other employees regarding expenditures, and communicating any corrections that are required.

What we are looking for

• University degree or diploma from an accredited post-secondary education institute focused on Finance/Accounting, plus a minimum of 1 year experience working with accounts payable. A combination of education and experience may be considered.
• Accounting Certifications would be an asset.
• Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
• Proficient skills in Microsoft Office, specifically Excel.
• Strong financial, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Knowledge of applicable accounting principles and/or procedures.

You will be:

• Flexible, organized, and quick to learn to independently prioritize and organize own workload to meet tight deadlines and successfully complete projects in a changing environment.
• Service-oriented, patient, honest, and respectful/tactful.
• Thorough, reliable, disciplined, organized, and have a strong attention to detail.
• Creative, logical, and have a strong motivation for continuous improvement and learning.
• Empathetic, diplomatic, and sensitive to respond to issues and concerns of others who may be angry or frustrated.

Competencies

Communication

• Ability to present complex concepts, interpretations, options, and recommendations to management and staff in a clear, concise, logical, assertive, and convincing fashion and in a manner that takes account of the audience.

Leadership

• Ability to provide information and explain procedures to new employees to help them achieve set objectives.

Problem Solving

• Ability to identify and assess problems, explore options, and implement appropriate solutions using applicable policies and guidelines.

Interpersonal

• Ability to calmly listen, assess, and clarify problems and respond with options to clients, co-workers and/or vendors who may be angry, confused or upset.

Team/Independence

• Ability to work independently and work cooperatively with others in a team environment to establish, build, and maintain positive work relationships and to ensure deadlines, goals, and objectives are met.

Organizational

• Ability to plan and organize a large volume of work, taking into consideration frequent interruptions, and conflicting and changing priorities, to meet tight deadlines.
• Ability to maintain and archive hard copies of electronic records management systems to quickly locate and retrieve information when needed.

Analytical

• Ability to accurately compile, calculate and summarize data to make adjusting entries, complete and/or approve financial statements, amortization, year-end schedules, forecasts, and budgets.
• Ability to examine, understand and appropriately apply portions of acts, regulations, agreements, policies, contracts, and procedures to accounting related issues.
• Ability to compare, recognize and correct discrepancies within multiple sets of data to balance financial data and ensure integrity.
• Ability to check and verify documentation for completeness and accuracy in accordance with applicable policies and procedures.

Technical

• Ability to input, edit, update, and retrieve information on a computer using various software packages and applications with accuracy and within established timelines.
• Ability to accurately perform complex mathematical calculations.

If you are looking for an opportunity to challenge yourself and showcase your abilities, we would love to hear from you!

Grade: SGEU - FAC06
Location: Regina, SK
Anticipated Start Date: November, 2024

Number of Openings: 2

Closing Date: Nov 19, 2024, 11:59:00 PM

We are committed to workplace diversity.

Contact Us: recruitment@eHealthSask.ca