Director, Finance & Treasurer & CFO, Toronto Public Library

Odgers Berndtson; Toronto; On-site; CAD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The Toronto Public Library seeks a Director, Finance & Treasurer to lead financial management and provide oversight. This role requires a collaborative leader with a strong financial background, capable of guiding the library through transformative changes while ensuring fiscal responsibility.

Qualifications

• Experience in a finance management role, preferably in the not-for-profit or public sector.
• Ability to articulate impacts of key business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership and oversight of financial management.
• Maintain financial framework of policies and controls.
• Support innovative library service.

Skills

Leadership

Financial Management

Budgeting

Cost Control

Collaboration

Education

University Degree

Professional Accounting Designation

Job description

Toronto Public Library (TPL) is North America’s biggest and busiest urban public library system. The library’s 2,500 employees empower Torontonians to thrive in the digital age and knowledge economy through easy access to technology, lifelong learning, and diverse cultural and leisure experiences, where, when and how the customer needs it. This is an exciting time to be working in libraries, when economic, political, social and educational sectors are focused on the critical importance of the knowledge economy and managing exponential change and technological disruption. It is also a time when libraries are being recognized as catalysts for our cities’ success and our neighborhood’s resilience and renewal.

Reporting directly to the City Librarian (TPL’s Chief Executive), the Director, Finance & Treasurer is the Library’s CFO.The Director provides executive leadership and oversight of TPL’s financial management function. The Director is responsible for providing timely, accurate, clear and complete financial information to the Library Board and City Librarian to enable them to exercise their fiduciary duty of care and due diligence. The Director is also responsible for maintaining a financial framework of policies, procedures, controls and authorities that manage risk and maintain TPL’s financial credibility, while supporting innovative, efficient and high-quality library service.

As an integral member of the Senior Management team, a collaborative working style is essential.With a demonstrated commitment to Toronto Public Library’s core values, you have a university degree and a professional accounting designation and related senior level experience in a finance management role, preferably in the not-for-profit or public sector. You have a solid understanding of budget, financial planning, governmental accounting and cost control procedures and the ability to articulate and translate the impacts (financial and other) of key business decisions. An effective leader, you bring experience in managing a team of finance professionals and administrative staff, fostering an open, and inclusive work environment that attracts, engages and retains high performing staff. You will act as an innovative, future-facing leader in the finance field, staying up to date on trends in financial management, business leadership and organizational effectiveness.TPL is looking for a public sector leader who can be a change agent and collaborate to help TPL support the ongoing transformation of these important services and build organizational capacity for innovation.

The Toronto Public Library is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, upon request, accommodation will be provided by both Odgers Berndtson and the Toronto Public Library throughout the recruitment, selection and / or assessment process to applicants with disabilities.