Black Alliance Internship The OPS is dedicated to recruiting and advancing top talent while building a diverse public service. This exciting opportunity offers recent Black or Black bilingual (French-English) post-secondary graduates the opportunity to develop their careers and gain valuable work experience with one of Canada's top employers.
We seek to recruit and advance bright talent for the future, and we offer personal and professional growth, coaching and mentorship, along with a competitive salary.
Personal InformationThe Ontario Public Service (OPS) is committed to building a workforce that reflects the communities it serves and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful, and equitable workplace. To enable this commitment and advance broader organizational objectives, this dedicated internship has been created for eligible applicants who self-identify as Black, or Black bilingual (French/English). As part of the application process, all applicants must respond to a self-attestation. Applicants who do not belong to one of these two groups or who choose not to identify will not be eligible.
What can I expect to do in this role?
As a finance intern you can:- Learn about public sector accounting, financial management including the multi-year plan, in-year submissions, internal control and assurance and the financial reporting and expenditure management processes within ministries
- Acquire hands-on experience with business planning, risk management and strategic resource management
- Gain valuable training and experience that will assist towards acquiring an accounting or financial designation.
How do I qualify?
Mandatory
- You must self-identify as Black (regardless of your cultural identity or place of birth).
- You must have graduated or will complete the requirements to graduate with a degree, diploma or post-graduate certificate from a recognized or legally authorized post-secondary institution in the last five years (May 2017-June 2022).
- You must be legally entitled to work in Canada.
- French proficiency levels for bilingual placements will be tested and confirmed before hire.
Knowledge
- Accounting/Finance: demonstrates knowledge and an understanding of various accounting principles and systems and the ability to analyze and prepare financial statements and reports
- Business Planning: identify key business objectives and goals for the organization, considering the variety of factors that impact the organization and establishing goals that account for those factors
- Financial Management/Economics/Business/Commerce: demonstrate knowledge and an understanding of effective planning and management of moneys to meet business goals. This would include:
- knowledge of long and short range financial planning
- financial and economic forecasting
- allocating budgets and targets
- risk management and performance measurement
- monitoring, tracking, processing transactions
- financial controllership and reporting
- gathering data and performing quantitative analysis
- ability to interpret and apply standards, policies and procedures and legislation
Skills
- Analytical: identify trends and relevant themes to support the development of user-focused and evidence-based findings and recommendations
- Collaboration: work with others across the organization to identify and solve a problem or achieve a common goal that is mutually beneficial
- Relationship Management: build and maintain strong working relationships with clients, stakeholders, partners and colleagues while demonstrating respect, ethics and extending trust in order to achieve organizational goals
- Planning and Coordinating: prioritize tasks, manage competing priorities to effectively manage time in order to meet deadlines.
- French Language: for some placements, French proficiency is not required but is considered an asset.
OPS Commitment to diversity, inclusion, accessibility, and anti-racism:
We are committed to build a workforce that reflects the communities we serve and to promote a diverse, anti-racist, inclusive, accessible, merit-based, respectful and equitable workplace.
We invite all interested individuals who meet the mandatory eligibility to apply and encourage applications from people with disabilities as well as people from a diversity of ethnic and cultural origins, sexual orientations, gender identities and expressions.
Visit the
OPS Anti-Racism Policy and the
OPS Diversity and Inclusion Blueprint pages to learn more about the OPS commitment to advance racial equity, accessibility, diversity, and inclusion in the public service.
We offer employment accommodation across the recruitment process and all aspects of employment consistent with the requirements of Ontario's
Human Rights Code. Refer to the application instructions below if you require a disability-related accommodation.
Finance Placement Information:
1 Bilingual, Temporary – up to 12 months, Advanced , Toronto
• Ministry of Transportation
5 Temporary – up to 12 months, Toronto
• Ministry of Citizenship and Multiculturalism
• Ministry of Colleges and Universities
• Ministry of Government and Consumer Services
• Ministry of Heritage, Sport, Tourism and Culture Industries
• Treasury Board Secretariat
All Ontario Public Service external job advertisements are posted in English and French. To confirm the language requirements of a job, check the "language of position" information at the top of each job ad. For all positions, candidates will be assessed in English, the business language of the Ontario Public Service. For English/French designated bilingual positions, candidates will also be assessed through French-language proficiency testing.
Toutes les offres d'emploi externes de la fonction publique de l'Ontario sont affichées en anglais et en français. Pour connaître les exigences linguistiques, vérifiez les renseignements sur la « langue du poste » figurant dans le haut de chaque offre d'emploi. Pour tous les postes, l'évaluation des candidates et candidats se fera en anglais, la langue usuelle de la fonction publique de l'Ontario. En ce qui concerne les postes désignés bilingues, la maîtrise du français des candidates et candidats sera également évaluée.
