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The Communications Security Establishment (CSE) is Canada’s agency responsible for foreign signals intelligence, cyber operations and cyber security. Learn more about our mission.

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Job summary

Join the Communications Security Establishment’s Finance team! We are looking for Senior Financial Analysts who are ready for a stimulating, high-impact role that directly supports key departmental and Government of Canada priorities. Your expertise in finance can shape decisions that support important initiatives within the Canadian security and intelligence communities.

CSE is not just for those with high-tech skills. We have a vast community of Finance enthusiasts that you can join. See below the Finance streams for which we’re currently hiring!

Stream 1: Financial Policy

As a Senior Financial Policy Analyst, you will provide authoritative interpretation and analysis of Treasury Board (TB) policies, National Joint Council (NJC) directives, and internal departmental policies, helping ensure that financial management across the department is rigorous, compliant, and strategically aligned.

Reporting to the Manager, Financial Policy, you will contribute directly to strengthening financial stewardship, improving internal controls, and supporting evidence-based decision-making at all levels of the organization.

Stream 2: Financial Systems

As a Senior Financial Systems Analyst you can assess the potential impacts of technical solutions on the department and ensure that financial management systems and procedures comply with legislation, policies and business requirements.

Reporting to the Manager, Financial Systems and Corporate Reporting, you will help provide strategic advice and guidance and make recommendations to senior management on integrating financial management systems and business practices into financial management frameworks.

Stream 3: General

The Finance Directorate is growing and seeks Senior Financial Analysts and Supervisor Financial Analysts for a variety of roles including Accounting Operations, Corporate Reporting, Internal Controls, Financial Management, Costing and Financial Management Advisor Services. These roles offer you the opportunity to contribute to CSE’s mission while ensuring sound financial stewardship, proposing solutions and recommendations in support of sound decision making.

Salary

UNI 09 - $107,061 to $125,949 plus allowances (under review)

To find out more about our salary scale, vacation allowances and benefits (health, dental and pension plans, etc.) visit the Compensation page on our website.

These positions may be eligible for the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) transitional allowance and the Financial management group allowance. These are additional allowances which do not form part of the annual salary. They are negotiated through the collective bargaining process and are currently under review.

Area of selection

Open to Canadian citizens employed by the federal public service within the National Capital Region, who currently occupy a substantive FI 02/CT FIN 02 or FI 03/CT FIN 03 classification or equivalent classification in separate agencies of Schedule V of the Financial Administration Act.

Location

All jobs are in Ottawa, Ontario. CSE has two accessible facilities. Flexible work arrangements, including telework for a portion of the work week, may be possible.

Conditions of employment

An Enhanced Top Secret (ETS) security clearance is a condition of employment that must be met before an offer can be made.

More information about our hiring and security processes can be found on our website.

Essential qualifications

In order to be considered, your cover letter must clearly explain how you meet the following education and experience requirements.

Education

You must have either one of the following:

• A degree from a recognized post-secondary institution, with a specialization in accounting, finance, business administration, commerce, or economics.
• The educational program must be recognized in Canada, and you must be able to provide proof of education credentials.

Experience

For all positions:

• Recent*and significant** experience in analyzing information, providing financial advice, and making recommendations to senior management.
• Recent* and significant** experience preparing briefing materials, reports, and presentations for management.

*Recent is defined as experience having normally been acquired within the last six years.

**Significant is defined as having performed the duties for a minimum period of four (4) years within the last six (6) years at the CT-FIN-02 level or one (1) year within the last six (6) years at the CT-FIN-03 level.

Stream 1 - Financial Policy

• Experience in the development, implementation and applications of policies, procedures and directives.
• Experience in researching, interpreting and applying central agency policies, legislation, directives, guidelines, standards, and departmental procedures.

Stream 2 - Financial Systems

• Experience in the design, development, review, testing or maintenance of business processes, procedures, controls, data, and software applications that produce financial and related non-financial information.
• Experience evaluating individual modules of financial management systems to determine impact for potential improvement or replacement.

Stream 3 - General

• Experience in three or more of the following:
  • Internal budgeting, forecasting, financial reporting, or financial analysis (including activities such as extracting, compiling, and analyzing information).
  • External reporting (Estimates, Trial Balance, Financial Statements, etc.).
  • Costing (including activities such as the development and delivery of costing models).
  • Accounting operations (such as recording, reporting, analyzing, and tracking financial transactions related to revenues and expenses).
  • Internal control (development, implementation or application of controls).
  • Financial management advisory services (provision of advice, guidance, and financial services in the areas of planning, budgeting, costing, and reporting).

Official language requirements

Various language requirements including:

• English essential, or
• Bilingual imperative: Various language profiles such as: BBB/BBB or CBC/CBC

Competencies

The following technical, behavioural and leadership competencies will be assessed at a later date. You do not need to include information about them in your application.

Functional competencies

For all positions:

• Financial knowledge and skill - Knowledge of financial practices and procedures.
• Financial management systems and process - Application of Financial Management Systems to support the automation of financial processes.

Stream 1 – Financial Policy

• Development, implementation and application of policies, procedures and controls that focus on long-term goals and objectives and that are compliant with legislation and central agency direction.

Stream 2 – Financial Systems

• The design, development, review, testing and maintenance of business processes, procedures, controls, data and software applications that produce financial and related non-financial information.

Behavioural competencies

For all positions:

• Interactive Communication - Communicating in a compelling, honest, persuasive, effective, and articulate manner, thinking about who you need to communicate with, ensuring the message is clear, understood, and consistent with CSE objectives.
• Service - Identifies and responds to current and future client needs; provides service that meets or exceeds clients’ expectations.

Leadership competencies

For all positions:

• Achieving Results - Deliver on commitments through actions that reflect personal accountability, sound judgement, decisiveness, and business acumen.
• Change and Innovation - Create a culture where flexibility and openness to new ideas are encouraged. Lead transformation with courage and conviction.
• Integrity, Respect and Awareness - Create and promote a culture of integrity, transparency, fairness, and respect. Recognize one’s own areas of personal and professional strength as well as areas for development and is committed to continuous learning to enhance self-awareness. Continuous learning to enhance self-awareness.
• Lead and Motivate - Inspire commitment to achieve performance excellence by creating excitement about the work and demonstrating personal conviction, strength of character and belief about the team.
• Strategy and Vision - Develop a vision and connect people to it; understand the context and envision the possibilities; Translate ideas into concrete strategies that can be effectively executed.

Assets

Assets are “nice-to-have” expertise and skills we’re interested in. You will not be eliminated if you do not meet or possess these qualifications. However, if you do have them, they may be used to identify which team you could best complement.

Please demonstrate on your application if you meet or possess the asset education and/or experience listed below.

Asset education

• Possess or in process of obtaining a recognized professional Accounting Designation (i.e., CPA).

Asset experience

• Experience supervising staff.
• Experience in data analytics or business intelligence.
• Experience in implementing a financial system.

How to apply

You may submit your candidacy online by selecting “Apply” at the top or bottom of this page.

If you cannot apply online or have a disability preventing you from applying online, please inform us by email at careers-carrieres@cse-cst.gc.ca prior to the closing date of this hiring process.

Important information

We ask you to not discuss your application with others (including on social media) besides your partner, or close family members - who should also be reminded about the need to be discreet.

Assessments of candidates are conducted in the official language of their choice.

To address CSE’s current representation gaps, priority may be given to persons who self-declare as belonging to one, or more, designated employment equity groups: women; Indigenous peoples, including First Nations who are status, or registered and non-status, or non-registered, Inuit and Métis; persons with disabilities, including people with a mental health condition and neurodivergent people; and persons from racial or ethnic groups.

Please note the Employment Equity Act, which is under review, uses the terminology Aboriginal peoples and visible minorities.

CSE offers an assessment process that will accommodate any reasonable measures you require to be assessed in a fair and equitable manner. Those measures are available to all candidates during our processes. Information you provide will be addressed confidentially.

All communications with CSE relating to this process, including email messages and telephone conversations, may be used in the assessment of qualifications.

The intent of this process is to fill vacant positions at CSE. The process may also be used to establish a pool of qualified candidates which could be used to staff similar or identical positions with various tenures.

Due to the nature of CSE’s mandate certain roles may expose employees to content that is difficult to process. Mental health is a priority at CSE and if any personnel feel they require assistance to preserve their mental wellbeing, they have access to services, tools and other resources to help them in both their personal and professional lives.

Please note that in an effort to maintain balance between employee development and business needs, candidates who are hired at CSE must remain in their substantive position for a minimum of twelve (12) months subject to operational requirements.

We thank you for your interest in CSE. However, only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.