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FMI – Halifax, Fredericton, January 2010
The Competency Connection
Norma Hubley
Senior Director
Office of the Comptroller General
Financial Management – Capacity Building
& Community Development
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Demographics FIs by Level by Region
Demographics:
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700
600
500
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300
200
100
0
• Atlantic 275
• Central 496
• NCR
2720
• Western 556
• Total:
Atlantic
Central
NCR
4,047
Western
FI01 FI02 FI03 FI04
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FI Age Profile
450
400
350
300
250
200
150
FI01
FI02
FI03
FI04
100
50
0
-30
30-39
40-49
50-59
60+
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Gender Trends in FI Community
2500
2000
1500
Women
Men
1000
500
0
2000
2003
2006
2009
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FI Age & Gender Profile
800
700
600
500
Women
Men
400
300
200
100
0
-30
30-39
40-49
50-59
60+
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Distribution of FIs in Atlantic Canada
120
100
80
2000
2003
60
2006
2009
40
20
0
NF&LAB
NS
NB
PEI
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Major Departments for FIs in Atlantic Canada
Department/Agency # of FIs
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Veterans Affairs
HRSDC
PWGSC
DFO
Correctional Services
ACOA
RCMP
DND
Transport
52
37
34
27
25
22
16
13
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Top 3 departments employ
45% of Atlantic FIs
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Integrated Human Resources Framework
Business & Human
Resources Planning
Performance
Management &
Feedback
Learning / Professional
& Management
Development
INTEGRATED HR
FRAMEWORK
Organizational Design,
Classification &
Compensation
Community-led
Competency- based
Competency Profiles
Resourcing
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Business & Human
Resource Planning
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Organizational
Design, Classification
& Compensation
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Competency Profiles
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Resourcing
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Learning / Professional
& Management
Development
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Performance
Management &
Feedback
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CAST - Business & Human Resource Planning
• CICA identified need to train more CA’s
• Public Service wanted home-grown CA’s
• Partnership with third professional
accounting body
• Demographics
• What competencies do we need in the
future
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CAST - Business & Human Resource Planning
• Program Design
• Requirements to become an Approved
Training Office
• Recruitment Strategy
• Partners
• Universities
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CAST – Org Design, Classification and
Compensation
• Org Design includes more than the
Training Principal and the students
• Counselling members (must be a CA)
• Host Departments
• Line Managers (must be a professional
Accountant)
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CAST – Competency Profiles
• CICA Guide to the Uniform Final Exams
• FI – CFO Career Path – Competency
Profiles
• Code of Professional Conduct
• Training Plans
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Competencies, CICA and Public Service
• CA Competencies mapped to financial
management functions and tasks in Public
Service
• Competency developed in both breadth
and depth of practical experience
• Work assignments ensures students meet
both CA requirements and those of FI 1
and 2 levels
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Competencies Cont’d
• Competencies are expected to be
demonstrated in the workplace;
– at the FI 1 and 2 levels (Public Service)
– At the entry level CA (CICA Competency
Map)
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Competencies – Cont’d
• Competency assessment is done by CA
students, validated by line manager,
approved by Counselling member and
Training Principal
• Competency achievement is submitted to
CA governing body when practical
experience is completed
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Competencies
• Students are provided four nine month
rotational work assignments in various
federal organizations allowing them to
develop the skills and competencies
required to bring them from an entry level
position (FI-01) to the working level (FI02)
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CAST - Resourcing
• CFO Umbrella
• Cash Managed
• Cost Shared
– OCG pays for program administration,
recruitment, training
– Departments pay for salaries
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CAST – Resourcing
• Recruitment
– Post Secondary
– Competency based
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CAST Learning/Professional & Management
Development
• Three areas of Learning
– University – mandatory courses
– Professional program – provincial
guidelines
– Competency development – progressively
complex work assignments
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CAST – Performance Management & Feedback
• Self-assessment tool
• Map performance to CICA competencies
• Map performance to FM Community
competencies
• Report to ICAO on Competency
Development
• Report to PS on FI competency
Development
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Benefits of Program
• To individual Departments and Public
Service
– Motivated professionals performing required
financial management tasks and projects
– Growth of financial management group with
knowledge of government department’s
operations, environment and financial
management needs
– Home grown CAs
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Benefits of Program
• Students have varied work experience
and exposure to 4 different aspects of
government
• After 3 years employer is assured that
students are high functioning FI-2
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• Questions?
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