At ATB, we exist to make it possible for our clients, team members and communities. Our purpose is more than aspirational. It's a real commitment we live every day through our values (what we call the ATB ID).
Life at ATB is about more than work. In fact, we’re consistently recognized as one of Canada's top employers thanks to our high-care, high-performance culture, upheld by the three commitments we make to our team members:
Impact in action: No matter where you are in the organization, you're empowered to make an impact in the lives of our clients and communities.
Thrive together: We want you—the unique, authentic you—to feel safe and celebrated at work. We're on a continuous journey to build the most flexible and inclusive programs.
Ready for tomorrow: We want to enable your success through interesting and challenging work, performance enablement, and learning and development.
As Finance Data Systems Specialist, you serve as a strategic architect of ATB’s financial data ecosystem. Reporting directly to the Director of Finance Architecture, you act as the vital bridge between high-level financial strategy and the data created by the underlying technical infrastructure that powers it.
Your mandate is to champion data integration and lineage stewardship—ensuring every financial transaction, from source capture to final reporting, moves with absolute integrity across interconnected systems. You are tasked with proactively hunting for systemic gaps, anticipating data and system vulnerabilities, automating workflows, and engineering preventative controls to ensure seamless data flow across ATB’s financial landscape.
At ATB, you will harmonize business motivations with technical execution, turning complex business requirements into reliable, automated system solutions. You will take full ownership of high-impact, data-intensive initiatives aligned with your domain, and play a central role in delivering key subledger projects—including upgrades, implementations, and support packs.
System Health & Vulnerability Management: Develop proactive, repeatable diagnostic frameworks and perform health checks using advanced analytics to identify anomalies, investigate root causes, and resolve system vulnerabilities.
Framework Standardization & Capability Building: Standardize and document diagnostic frameworks to cross-train team, driving decentralized process adoption and safeguarding automated processing, data lineage, and financial reporting integrity.
Process Optimization & Automation: Drive continuous improvement by identifying and executing opportunities to automate workflows - including but not limited to financial data collection, analysis, and reporting - maximizing operational efficiency and data reliability.
Solution Delivery & Stakeholder Alignment: Partner across business and technical teams to design, build, and deliver reliable solutions that fulfill ATB’s accounting and financial reporting requirements
Posting Schemas, Reconciliations & Balance Resolution: Investigate inconsistencies between subledger and general ledger balances. Analyze transaction-to-GL derivation logic to identify accounting configuration errors, recommending system updates and preventative controls to reduce operational disruptions.
Distinctive Competencies & Technical Skills:
Key Qualifications & Requirements:
This position has a hybrid work arrangement. You’ll work both remote and onsite, where time onsite is based on your job accountabilities and performance objectives.
Don’t meet all the requirements on the list?
A resume only goes so far in expressing who you are and the unique perspectives you bring. If you believe your skills and experience align with the role—but you might not check all the boxes—we want to hear from you. We encourage candidates from all work backgrounds, equity-seeking communities and experience levels to apply. If you’re seeking a career where your drive, perspective and growth are celebrated, we want to hear from you.
We’re dedicated to building a workforce reflective of those within our communities, and a culture where our team members are equipped with what they need to succeed—their way. Part of creating an inclusive workplace is recognizing our role in advancing Truth and Reconciliation. We are committed to meeting and exceeding the standards set out in the Partnership Accreditation in Indigenous Relations program created by the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business.
What happens next?
If you are shortlisted, you’ll hear from us after the posting closes. Check out our How We Hire page to learn more about our hiring process. If you need any accommodations throughout this process, please let us know at talentteam@atb.com
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For more than 85 years, ATB has been reimagining the way we do business. We’ve grown from one small treasury branch into Alberta’s largest provincially based financial institution, and we don’t have any plans to slow down now. We power possibility for our clients, our team members and our province—and we’re leading the way to a sustainable, innovative and prosperous future.
About ATB Financial
With $62.0 billion in assets, ATB Financial is a leading financial institution that started in Alberta with the focus of putting people first. Our success comes from our more than 5,000 team members who love to deliver exceptional experiences to over 820,000 clients across our Personal and Business Banking, ATB Wealth Management and ATB Capital Markets businesses. ATB provides expert advice, services and products through our many branches and agencies, our 24-hour Client Care Centre, four entrepreneur centres and our digital banking options. ATB powers possibilities for our clients, communities and beyond.
