Job Information

Job Requisition ID: 73903
Ministry: Treasury Board & Finance
Location: Edmonton or Calgary
Full or Part-Time: Full Time
Hours of Work: 36.25 hours per week
Permanent/Temporary: Ongoing
Scope: Open Competition
Closing Date: September 8, 2025
Classification: Manager 2 (M41Z2)
Salary: $3,339.00 to $4,493.32/bi-weekly ($87,147.90 - $117,275.65/annually)

Treasury Board and Finance, Edmonton/Calgary – Tax and Revenue Administration (TRA)

TRA is responsible for the collection of revenue and the administration of Alberta’s tax, revenue and related benefit programs. The focus of our organization is to ensure a fair, efficient and effective provincial tax and revenue system. Our organization offers a balance between work and your home life and provides options for flexible work arrangements.

For further information about Treasury Board and Finance, see our website at

Role Responsibilities

The Ministry of Treasury Board and Finance is looking for a Manager, Audit Training.

Manager, Audit Training
Are you a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA), with experience in teaching or training, audit, tax administration and the oil and gas industry? Do you have knowledge of Alberta's royalty regimes, corporate tax, commodity tax and enjoy challenging work? The Tax and Revenue Administration (TRA) division is looking for a Manager, Audit Training to join our audit team. We are an enthusiastic, goal-orientated and knowledgeable team – join us!

Reporting to a Director in the audit branch, you will have overall responsibility for maintaining complex auditing and technical tax expertise and acting as a technical resource in audit, royalty, and taxation matters for highly skilled professional auditors through the development of training materials and provision of training. While this position will support all programs administered by the Audit branch, it will focus on Oil Sands and Natural Gas training. This position develops strategic and tactical plans for training staff in complex programs and is responsible for the development, update, and maintenance of training materials and presentations. This is especially important when new programs are introduced or there are amendments to legislation. The Manager also ensures the efficiency, effectiveness and integrity of staff development and technical training, within the branch, and assists auditors, as required, in working through unique and complex issues. The incumbent uses their extensive experience with royalty and taxation matters to support branch training requirements, evidence-based decisions making, and program administration. This position also supervises two staff members.

The incumbent is responsible for providing technical expertise on a variety of royalty, corporate, and commodity programs and training a team of highly skilled professional auditors in providing audit assurance to ensure that royalty payers and taxpayers are complying with legislation and program requirements and ensuring royalties, taxes, and levies, are collected in a manner that is accurate and fair. The position also keeps up to date with best practices, legislative and industry changes to enable timely communication of those changes to staff, allowing for more effective audits. The position plays a significant role in providing guidance to staff on key initiatives related to modernization of processes and improved utilization of data while supporting auditors with change management and fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement.

Role Responsibility Continued

The Manager will have multiple projects underway at any given time, ranging from small to large scale initiatives, and implements strategies and procedures to attain long term Audit objectives

You will be challenged to demonstrate creativity and innovation in identifying audit efficiencies and adapt to changing environments in Alberta's tax and royalty programs. As a manager, you will also be responsible for identifying potential regulatory or policy issues, as well as providing comprehensive analysis and detailed recommendations to senior management.

You must be able to prioritize to ensure you meet tight timelines. You will have excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, and be able to articulate and present complex issues to a variety of internal and external stakeholders. Strong analytical and interpretative skills as well as attention to detail and accuracy will assist you in this role. The ability to build collaborative environments by establishing positive working relationships and managing multiple assignments simultaneously in support of branch objectives is key.

Your Work Environment: As a member of our team, you will enjoy working in a collaborative team environment where you will be supported, valued, and enjoy having a great work-life balance.

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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:

Agility: Ability to anticipate, assess, and readily adapt to changing priorities, maintain resilience in times of uncertainty and effectively work in a changing environment.

Drive for Results: Knowing what outcomes are important and maximizing resources to achieve results that are aligned with the goals of the organization, while maintaining accountability to each other and external stakeholders.

Develop Self and Others: A commitment to lifelong learning and the desire to invest in the development of the long-term capability of yourself and others.

Creative Problem Solving: Ability to assess options and implications in new ways to achieve outcomes and solutions.

Build Collaborative Environments: You lead and contribute to the conditions and environments that allow people to work collaboratively and productively to achieve outcomes.

Develop Networks: You proactively build networks, connecting and building trust in relationships with different stakeholders.

Qualifications

Required:

• Professional accounting designation (CPA) is required, plus a minimum of three years related experience progressive experience

• A Bachelor's degree, Master's degree, or an equivalent qualification in Education or a related field would be an asset.

• A cover letter outlining how your experience relates to the qualifications of this role is required and will be used to assess your communication capabilities.

Assets:

• In-depth knowledge of the oil and gas industry and oil sands royalty regulations, policies, and procedures

• In-depth knowledge of Alberta’s corporate or commodity tax provisions

• Experience auditing tax and royalty programs

• Proficiency in complex data and predictive analytics tools and techniques such as Power BI

• Advanced skills in the Microsoft Office

Minimum recruitment standards outline the minimum education and experience required for appointment to a job classification.
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Notes

A cover letter must accompany your application and should indicate how your experience aligns with the behavioral competencies of the role you are applying for. This cover letter may be used to assess your communication abilities.

In your resume, please include dates (including months and years) associated with all education and work experience. As well, please indicate whether your work experience is casual, part-time or full-time. For example, January 15, 2006 - June 25, 2009: Assistant (PT three 8 hrs. shifts/week).
Candidates with lesser qualifications may be considered at a lower classification and salary. This competition may be used to fill future roles at the same or lower classifications.

This is a permanent full-time position, working 36.25 hours per week, Monday to Friday. This position will be located at Edmonton Government Centre, Edmonton or AMEC Place, Calgary.

• Final Candidates for this position will be asked to undergo a Level 2 security screening.

• This competition may be used to fill current and future vacancies at equal or lesser classification across the Government of Alberta.

• Travel may be required.

What we offer:

• Working for the Alberta Public Service -
• Management Employees 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
• Opportunity to participate in flexible work arrangements such as working from home up to two days per week and modified work schedule agreement
• Leadership and mentorship programs

How To Apply
Applicants are advised to provide information that clearly and concisely demonstrates how their qualifications meet the advertised requirements, including education, experience, and relevant examples of required competencies.

It is recommended that applicants include the assessment certificate from IQAS or any other educational assessment service as part of their application.

Closing Statement
This competition may be used to fill future vacancies, across the Government of Alberta, at the same or lower classification level.

We thank all applicants for their interest. All applications will be reviewed to determine which candidates' qualifications most closely match the advertised requirements. Only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

If you require any further information on this job posting or require an accommodation during the recruitment process, please contact Shannon Rowe at Shannon.Rowe@gov.ab.ca.