Vice-President, Education - CGA Alberta

Do you want to be part of a dynamic organization that provides people with the tools to succeed in business? The Certified General Accountant (CGA) designation is the fastest growing accounting profession in Canada. Join a team that represents 8,000 members and students in Alberta. The CGA Association of Alberta provides educational, advisory, promotional and regulatory services for and on behalf of its members and students in the Province of Alberta.

The Vice President, Education will assume ownership of responsibilities in the areas of professional education design and delivery for CGA students and members. The incumbent will participate with other CGA staff and CGA members in a team environment, and will accept personal responsibility for the educational outcomes of the Association's programs for members and students. This will require productive working relationships with representatives of other CGA affiliated organizations, CGA members and students, CGA Alberta staff colleagues, and representatives of Alberta's post-secondary educational institutions.

As the successful candidate, you will be a CGA in good standing.  An MBA is desirable but a minimum of a baccalaureate degree is required.  You are highly motivated, and able to work strategically and independently in an unstructured environment.   You will contribute to an environment of service quality excellence within the Association and its membership and have excellent relationship building skills.  As a successful leader and manager, you have a record mentoring and developing your subordinates.  An outgoing, team oriented demeanor rounds out your skill set.

If you are interested in applying for this or to explore this opportunity further, please contact Hamilton, Hall, Soles, Ray and Berndston's Calgary office at careers@hhsrb.ca or (403) 410-6700.

Employment Opportunity - Manager, Operations

CGA Alberta has an opening for the position of Manager, Operations. Reporting to the VP Operations, the Manager will be responsible for the management of operations staff who provide support to the various departments within the Association. In addition, this position will be responsible for the educational materials management including management of the distribution center. This candidate will also provide assistance to the VP Operations and Manager Accounting and Operations in various projects.

The candidate must have strong organization skills, will be expected to be highly motivated and will foster an environment of service quality excellence within the Association and its membership. This challenge will be most appealing to an individual with a background in operations management who can apply those strategies to the operations division to enhance existing processes and effect change management.

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Employment Opportunity - Manager, Exams and Enrolment

CGA Alberta has an opening for the position of Manager, Exams and Enrolments.  Reporting to the Manager, Accounting and Operations, the Manager will be responsible for the management of the course enrolments and the examinations process. Duties will include student record management, management of the enrolment system including setting up courses for each session and transfers of student records as well as management of exam processes. Duties will also include the management of the operational relationship with CGA education partners.

 

The successful candidate will participate in a team environment and will accept responsibility for achieving goals within their related area.

 

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CGA takes a stand for labour mobility

The Certified General Accountants Association of Canada took on the Ontario Government in the Globe and Mail over the ability of CGAs to perform public accounting services in that province. The dispute has erupted as provinces and territories are pondering revisions to interprovincial trade rules to improve mobility for workers. The new standards will require anyone certified for an occupation in one province to be recognized as qualified in all other provinces without requiring additional training or testing.

Click here to read the Globe & Mail article: Labour mobility at heart of accounting battle.

CGA calls for new savings infrastructure program

CGA Alberta is calling on the Alberta Government to commit to developing a new savings infrastructure to prepare the province for the next economic up-swing.

"We have argued for many years that economies run in cycles and that governments need to prepare themselves by accumulating resources on the up side for the inevitable declines," said John Carpenter, MBA, FCGA and CEO of CGA Alberta. "While Alberta has created a sustainability fund for short term revenue variations and a capital fund to respond to some project needs, the tremendous hydro-carbon driven resources from the latest boom have largely been consumed in the political processes and are gone.  Remember this moment!"

Carpenter said the development of a defined savings infrastructure, enshrined in legislation, will ensure the money is "off the table" when provincial revenue next booms. The current economic climate, when the province is forced to run a deficit to maintain program spending levels, is the perfect time to enact this type of plan.

To highlight the trade-offs involved in the budget process and the impact of spending on long-term sustainability, CGA Alberta has developed an interactive budget analysis tool. Do you agree with the way Alberta is handling its budget?  Find out how your choices would affect the province's fiscal health and long term sustainability by altering key spending and revenue parameters.

In addition to the sustainability model, CGA Alberta has also prepared a simple forecast tool to underscore the disconcerting trend in per capita health expenditures in Alberta.  This chart maps historic per capita spending on health care in the Province and allows the user to extrapolate future spending growth based on a selection of historic spending growth rates.

In order to better understand the impact of provincial spending, demographic changes and long-term savings, CGA Alberta invites the public to check out its joint research project with the Alberta Chambers of Commerce: Vision 2020. This project presents a fiscal forecast model for the province focusing on the areas of sustainability and savings, with a view to quantifying how demographic changes are impacting our economic landscape.

Click here to visit the Provincial Budget Analysis site.

Read the Press Release.