Costing Advisory Services

The Strategic Financial Analysis & Costing unit (SFAC) within the Chief Financial Officer Branch provides costing policies, directives, guidance and tools to improve the overall quality of costing information in support of management decisions and to ensure ESDC compliance to costing related financial policies.

The costing advisory services are provided in conjunction with the Financial Management Advisors:

• Provide costing standards and tools to ensure ESDC compliance to financial policies including the TBS Guidelines on Costing and ESDC Costing Policy.
• Provide general advice on costing methodology.
• Promote departmental best practices in costing.
• Provide general advice on financial reporting on performance and benchmarking including cost efficiency measurement.
• Provide strategic financial advice and conduct strategic financial analyses in support of various departmental reviews and costing exercises.
• Business process owner for myEMS (SAP) Cross Application Time Sheet (CATS), Controlling (CO) and Project System (PS) modules.