Senior Specialist, Regulatory Reporting and Fixed Assets

 BCLC exists to generate win-wins for the greater good.
 

For our people, our players, our communities, our industry, and our planet.
 

Lottery | Casino | Sports
 

Being a social purpose company, we are not only able to better align our business decisions with our purpose, but more importantly, we are committing to doing our part in creating a better world.

We bring our purpose to life by ensuring all our actions, behaviours and decisions create benefits for communities and the planet.

Motivated and guided by our social purpose, everything we do must benefit the greater good. And we encourage our employees, partners, players, industry and communities to engage with us on this ambition.

  We want you to be where you feel you can do your best work. Most of our jobs can be done remotely providing you reside in BC.
 

  For those who prefer working in a community with others, we have two beautiful offices in convenient locations: 
 

                2940 Virtual Way, Vancouver | 74 Seymour Street W, Kamloops
 

  This is a Temporary 13 Month, Full Time opportunity

  Expected Salary Range: $84,981.00 - $106,227.00 - $132,784.00 
 

                Our typical hiring range will be +/- 5% of the midpoint shown above
 

                 Factors influencing this decision include qualifications and market conditions for the role

The Company
For nearly four decades, BCLC has delivered exceptional gambling entertainment for British Columbians. To fulfill our social purpose we have a vision to revolutionize gambling entertainment through engaging experiences that build and benefit communities. We operate national and provincial lotteries in partnership with 3500 retail partners, provide the games, technology & oversight to 37 brick & mortar casinos, and operate a safe secure and 100% legal online gambling presence PlayNow.com. In our recently completed fiscal year, BCLC generated a record $1.5 billion in net income to the Province of B.C. to support First Nations, host local governments, health care, education and community programs across the province.

Job Summary:

The Senior Specialist uses specialised technical expertise and leadership to ensure the strategic objectives of the Financial Reporting and Standardsystems department are met in relation to the oversight of BCLC’s regulatory reporting and accounting for BCLC’s fixed assets.  This role is accountable for ensuring set service levels are maintained and initiatives are executed in accordance with organizational requirements.

Key Accountabilities:

• Responsible for ensuring compliance with all government regulatory reporting requirements,  including preparation or review of all reports and ensuring accuracy within strict timelines;
• Leads the Finance-wide process to prepare the annual Schedules of Financial Information under the Financial Information Act;
• Responsible for leading the preparation of financial information and reporting such as: monthly and quarterly internal management statements for use by the Executive, Board, and Government; annual ILC comparative reporting; Statistics Canada reporting; and financial components of various external requests on an as-requested basis;
• Oversees the accounting processes for fixed asset accounting;
• Coordinates and reviews the year-end fixed asset requirements to support the financial statement audit;
• Approves all capital assessment reports, ensures that the assessments support the corporation’s compliance with IFRS and elevates any high impact issues to the manager with accompanying recommendations; 
• Manages and oversees initiatives and action plans for fixed asset accounting components of the Financial Reporting and Standard mandate including improving fixed asset accounting processes, and enhancing the internal customer experience for standards assessments;
• Provides leadership to staff through day-to-day supervision and scheduling, and by inspiring a shared vision, building strong relationships, and modeling leadership behaviors that support engagement of staff through recognition, communication, and coaching.  Participates in people resources decisions, including recruitment, hiring, terminations, and compensation, in coordination with HR and the Manager. Conducts performance reviews and helps determine professional development needs and opportunities for staff members; 
• Proactively develops, maintains and manages consultative relationships with internal contacts, and establishes strong working relationships with external contacts such as the GPEB, ILC, and BCLC’s auditors;
• Participates in department and interdepartmental project teams, managing the departmental elements of the projects and processes from start to end. 

Minimum Required Qualifications

Education and Experience

• Post-secondary degree in finance, accounting or a related discipline;
• Canadian CPA designation;
• 4 – 6 years’ related experience;
• An equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be considered.

Technical Requirements

• Excellent knowledge and understanding of quantitative and qualitative analytical skills;
• Excellent analytical ability, a strong understanding of analytical concepts and well developed creative problem solving skills;
• Proven leadership skills with the ability to be self-motivated, work independently, as well as lead a team;
• Demonstrated ability to present complex information orally and written in an easily understood manner;
• Ability to work within established deadlines and time constraints;
• Ability to work with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail;
• Knowledge of corporate financial systems;
• Extensive knowledge of accounting principles with the ability to apply them in a practical way;
• Exceptional professional judgment with experience in exercising it effectively in the decision making process;
• Ability to act on own initiative, to exercise sound judgment and to prioritize tasks;
• Excellent interpersonal, time management and multi-tasking skills;
• Strong MS Office skills, including advanced Excel skills.

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What’s in it for you

• Robust wellness programs to enhance your physical, mental, social, financial and career well being
• We pride ourselves on our flexible working model which supports work-life integration and our 37.5 hour work week
• Our Play It Forward program provides volunteer hours for our people each year
• See all our rewards here
   

However you identify, or whatever your path in life, if you see something here that makes you excited to get to work every day, please apply. We hire people for skills, capabilities and potential, not just education and experience.

We value Respect, Integrity and Community, and we provide an inclusive environment where everyone can feel like they belong.

Our social purpose is much more than returning 100% of net income to the province in the form of healthcare & education programs, and community gaming grants. Check it out!

Did you know BCLC is an industry leader in player health and safe & responsible gambling? Find out more!

If you require accommodation so you can be at your best in the interview, please let us know: recruitment@bclc.com.

All candidates must be at least 19 years of age and legally eligible to work in Canada