Financial Analyst

Requisition Number: 2025-77

Posted: January 14, 2026

Position Type: Permanent, full-time

Location: Port Elgin, ON

Hours: 35 hrs/week, Monday to Friday, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm

Salary: $88,426 to $100,484 per year (depending on experience and qualifications)

Number of Vacancies: 1 (This posting is for a new position vacancy in the Financial Division)

Saugeen Shores: Both city and town, wrapped in a village.

Choosing to work and live in Saugeen Shores gives you an unparalleled choice of easy‑going lifestyles, economic opportunities and nature at every turn. You can truly create your own village in this growing, diverse community of neighbourhoods and amenities. You can replace long commutes with easy lakeshore rides. You can choose to be as active or relaxed as you want to be.

You can make all these great choices without sacrificing family life, schools, and even access to the wide world. Nestled on the shores of Lake Huron with forests and farms all around, Saugeen Shores is the promise of both cities and towns, wrapped in a village.

We take our team‑first culture so seriously; we wrote a Team Saugeen Charter to celebrate and protect it. Our shared role is to keep Saugeen Shores safe, well‑served, growing and vibrant in ways that respect the public and reflect our team. We develop careers from the inside first. We engage each other personally and professionally. We welcome change. we embrace new ideas.

We do more than live with work processes; we seek to continuously improve them. And we have each other's backs – because that is what great teams do.

• 10 paid personal days in addition to a generous number of vacation days per year.
• Comprehensive extended health and dental benefits, including an Employee and Family Assistance Plan.
• Enrollment in the OMERS pension plan.
• Access to an Employee and Family Assistance Program.
• A passion for investing in our workforce through continuous learning and development.

We are seeking a highly analytical and result‑oriented individual to join our team. As the Financial Analyst
, reporting to the Finance Supervisor/Deputy Treasurer, you will perform activities related to business planning, revenue and customer management, financial analysis, financial reporting, procurement, and risk management. You will ensure accounting procedures are in accordance with public sector accounting standards and statutory requirements.

• Improve financial policies and practices, ensuring efficient processes through the finance division.
• Integrate data from a variety of sources to automate processes and ensure data integrity throughout the corporation in relation to financial and non‑financial data.
• Prepare quarterly financial reports and monthly expense reports; interpret results and make recommendations to manage variances in compliance with financial policies, procedures, and accounting principles.
• Set internal controls and financial procedures and direct staff in following procedures.
• Perform ad‑hoc financial analysis for all departments and areas.
• Assist in developing budget and business plan timelines and activities in coordination with management.
• Train department staff on budget and business planning activities, ensuring adherence to established procedures and deadlines.
• Manage implementation and ongoing improvements to all software used in budget and business planning activities.
• Communicate relevant and accurate financial information to Council through the Business Plan document and presentation.
• Recommend updates to municipal by‑laws regarding revenue and customer focused processes.
• Review and correct tender documents for compliance with legislative requirements, trade agreements, Town policies and potential litigation risks.
• Post tender documents, receive questions from plan takers / bidders, post addenda and open bid submissions.
• Issue cheques and electronic fund transfer payments.
• Responsible for vendor management, including handling vendor concerns and establishing practices for accounts payable.
• Maintain complete and accurate financial records for all operating and capital accounts, including all internal and external business units and…