Director, Operational Finance

FCC / FAC; Regina; On-site; CAD 136,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial institution is seeking a finance leader to oversee a team of professionals and facilitate strategic financial decisions. Candidates should hold a CPA or CFA designation and have nearly a decade of leadership experience. The role emphasizes collaboration, communication, and relationship-building skills to enhance the company's financial strategies. This position plays a critical part in guiding business insights and analyses to foster informed decision-making.

Qualifications

• Approximately 10 years of leadership experience in finance.
• Proven ability to communicate complex financial concepts in business terms.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring finance teams.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with leadership on financial impacts and strategies.
• Direct processes for expense forecasting and scenario analysis.
• Guide management reporting development using qualitative and quantitative data.

Skills

Leadership

Relationship Building

Change Resiliency

Digital Literacy

Education

Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA)

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)

Job description

Closing Date (MM/DD/YYYY)

06/18/2025

Worker Type

Term (Fixed Term)

Language(s) Required

English

Term Duration (in Months)

18

Salary Range (plus eligible to receive a performance based incentive, applicable to position) :

$136,850 - $185,150

Proven finance leader needed

With your passion for cross-enterprise collaboration and advanced business advisory support, you’ll help partners and other Finance leaders make informed strategic and operational decisions.

Lead a team of finance professionals that provide insights and analyses that help other leaders understand financial perspectives, identify opportunities and risks, execute important financial processes in a quality, timely manner, and make sound investment/spending decisions.

What You’ll Do

• Collaborate with leadership and other internal partners to understand financial impacts in the execution of strategies and initiatives
• Engage teammates within Finance to share relevant business insights and proactively action finance-related requirements on behalf of the business, enabling the Finance division to be a connected and sophisticated financial partner to the enterprise
• Direct processes for administration expense forecasting and scenario analysis
• Ensure transparency in value for investment and in realization measures, and provide business case support for strategic and operating investments
• Guide the development of management reporting, leveraging both qualitative and quantitative data to provide insights and analytics for business decision-making
• Direct corporate banking relationships and payment activities, setting and maintaining appropriate service level standards and a robust internal control environment
• Coach and mentor a team of high-performing managers and employees
  
  
  

What We’re Looking For

• Strong leader who confidently manages multiple priorities and a high-performance team
• Proven relationship-builder with sound business judgment
• Ability to connect and develop strong partnerships to enhance and forward corporate priorities
• Confident communicator who thrives in a fast-paced environment
  
  
  

What You’ll Need

• A Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) or Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and approximately 10 years of related leadership experience (or an equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Proven ability to communicate complex financial concepts and analyses in business-centric terms that focus on the financial and business implications of decisions
• Proven ability to develop your team as finance business partners that emphasize a logic-based approach to decision-making and are focused on understanding and challenging underlying assumptions so they can critically assess business-led analyses while considering alternate scenarios
• Change resiliency with a high level of adaptability to prioritize and provide complex, advanced-analytics decision support in real time
• Digital literacy with a passion for learning and using digital technologies to enable data sourcing, interpretation and analytics, business narrative and storytelling
• Bilingualism (English and French) is an asset.