Director, Salvage Administration & Finance

SGI CANADA; Regina; On-site; CAD 122,000 - 163,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading insurance company in Regina seeks a Director, Salvage Admin & Finance to oversee financial processes and operational governance in the salvage division. The ideal candidate will possess a CPA designation and have over 10 years of experience, including leadership roles. Responsibilities include managing financial reporting, budgeting, and developing key operational reports, while ensuring compliance with relevant laws and policies. A competitive salary package is offered with a focus on integrity and innovation within the corporate culture.

Benefits

Commitment to employee growth

Collaborative work environment

Qualifications

• Ten years of experience including six years in leadership roles.
• Experience in a senior level accounting role.
• Knowledge of PST and GST tax laws.

Responsibilities

• Lead the financial processes and systems management for the salvage division.
• Provide oversight for operational governance of salvage systems.
• Prepare and manage departmental budgets and forecasts.

Skills

Knowledge of accounting concepts

Experience with financial reporting

Strong leadership skills

Proficiency in Microsoft Excel

Education

Four-year degree in Business or Mathematics

Chartered Professional Accounting (CPA) designation

Tools

Microsoft Access

Car-Part products

Job description

Do you value integrity and innovation? How about passion and caring? Great! Us too, and that's why you\u2019ll fit right in. Our intentional culture promotes trust and participation, encouraging you to bring your heart and mind to work every day.

Work Hours: Monday - Friday, 40 hours per week

Location: Regina

Salary Range - $122,139.00 - $162,859.00

Apply By: February 10, 2026

Overview

The Director, Salvage Admin & Finance is responsible for leading the development, maintenance, and evolution of the administrative, financial, operational processes, and systems management, with a focus on adding strategic value to the salvage division. Provides business and financial expertise, completes, or leads the analysis of the data collected. The findings support and guide the operational direction for the Salvage division. Designs, creates, and generates a wide range of reports with detailed analysis. Leads the creation of the divisional and departmental budgets and all financial processes within the division. Provides oversight for improvements, testing, and functionality of the various salvage related third party software programs and sales systems. Provides complex ad-hoc financial and scenario analysis to support business decisions from a financial and strategic perspective. Works collaboratively to build exceptional business relationships with multiple internal and external business partners and vendors.

Key Accountabilities

Note: This section is not intended to be an exhaustive list of duties and responsibilities – other duties and responsibilities may be assigned.

Strategic and Operational Reporting

• Liaises with salvage management to lead the identification and reporting of key business metrics to support and drive profitability of salvage operations including variance reports, dashboard, fleet asset reporting, dismantling reports, and location specific results.

• Establishes and prepares customized financial and statistical reports to guide business decisions and salvage transformation, used by Salvage division leadership; Senior Director and Vice President.

• Provides financial expertise and leadership in the development, implementation and maintenance of financial records, budgeting, and reporting provided internally to Salvage leadership and Finance and externally to auditors for all salvage financial transactions.

• Monitors administration and operations among the salvage sites and standardizes work processes and software systems, aligning the multiple sites, removing discrepancies in how each operate and promoting one consistent operating model across the province.

• Oversees the monthly financial reporting, ensures it is accurate, adds value and is delivered in a timely manner to division management.

• Prepares and provides quarterly salvage variance analysis to Senior Director and Finance.

• Acts as the financial leader for internal and external groups (e.g., external, and internal Auditors, Finance (Banking, Financial Planning/Budgeting, Financial Reporting, Disbursements, Claims and Reinsurance), Corporate Purchasing, Systems, Special Investigation Unit, Facilities Management, law enforcement agencies, Collection Agencies).

• Oversees and monitors the critical areas of branch operations and reports and acts on discrepancies, and analyzes and provides recommendations to Director, Provincial Salvage Operations for further actions or alternatives.

• Provides oversight, control and approval of creation, modification, and enhancements to financial reporting within the division. Leads functions such as credit checks, collections, PST, GST interpretation, GST credits, and inventory management. Provides analysis and guidance to the division on all financial impacts of salvage activities. Provides organizational leadership and guidance to branch managers and staff in obtaining information/services from other departments within SGI.

Salvage Systems (Car-Part and Salvage Bid Site)

• Ensures the operational governance and provides technical oversight of the salvage yard management system (Car-Part), salvage bid website and general insurance system (GIS) interface. Plays a key role in optimization and integration of the three primary and other supporting software systems used across the province.

• Executes the role of application owner (Vision) within the Corporate Software Governance Framework. Represents the Salvage division for approving changes and ensuring compliance.

• Provide leadership in long term (1 to 2 years) planning and coordination of systems training.

• Leads the selection, implementation, and ongoing maintenance of salvage-related operations and sales systems. Ensures reporting and processes provide reliable financial information for loading into the general ledger (Peoplesoft), forecasting data and cost controls.

• Creates and maintains business partner relationships with the various salvage system vendors. Primary contact representing Salvage, developing requests for proposals (RFP), sharing divisional needs with the vendors and ensures there is integration with existing systems.

• Completes research for new software systems, creates business cases, works on RFP, participates in vendor selections. Presents findings and makes recommendations to senior leaders.

• Establishes a system to ensure that user testing and implementation of interface updates, software updates and any GIS updates are up to date.

• Ensures standards are established and followed to prioritize system maintenance and enhancement requests.

• Oversees the design of enhancements, user acceptance testing, staff training for Salvage division bid site.

• Oversees the administration team's priorities, resource allocations to support the broader Salvage division\u2019s system\u2019s needs.

• Oversees the collection of system needs from users and provides leadership and coordination of design and implementation for new applications based on division needs.

Policy Development and Part Pricing Process

• Supervises the creation and approves the implementation of policy and process changes impacting the entire Salvage division.

• Supervises the work of the analysts who gather, analyze, and monitor various indicators that are used by this role to revise global pricing and divisional pricing policy of the parts inventory across the province.

• Collaborates with partners and other crown insurers to ensure that salvage policies support current industry conditions.

• Oversight for the implementation of global pricing changes to ensure consistent application across the province.

• Ensures that the proposed pricing aligns with the political and corporate initiatives.

• Accountable to ensure that pricing changes are documented and in alignment with financial auditing practices.

Corporate Management

• Establishes, monitors, and ensures an effective system of internal controls is in place to support reliable financial reporting and compliance in accordance with applicable laws and regulations within the span of control, and communicates the importance of internal controls to staff.

• Prepares, reviews, manages and/or approves departmental/divisional budgets. Performs Excel based forecasting modelling to predict salvage sales and cost of goods sold by branch and product. Provides sales and cost of goods sold budgets in excel format to finance planning and budgets to be loaded into the PeopleSoft budget app.

• Creates budget for salvage administration's admin expenses.

• Ensures programs and policies are in alignment with corporate, strategic, and divisional strategies.

• Provides strategic recommendations to the Senior Director, Salvage Operations.

• Manages risk in area of authority.

• Prepares decision, information item and/or SGI board item requests for department/division submission to the ELT SGI Board

• Ensures that the Health, Safety and Emergency Management Policy is applied in area of responsibility, including development, implementation and managing of program components specific to departmental health and safety requirements.

• Makes decisions for departmental operations that are efficient, effective and in alignment with strategic direction and priorities.

• Ensures department and program policies, procedures and guidelines are in compliance with applicable federal and provincial legislation and regulations; implements and evaluates changes to legislation and regulations in area of authority.

Internal and External Audit Support

• Supervises internal review of cash handling procedure audits and inventory counts.

• Assists internal auditors in understanding salvage system, processes, and controls.

• Supports branches in the preparation of and responses to audit reports.

• Prepares response to additional questions from executive and/or Board of Directors.

• Provides support to external auditors for the year end audit and provides documentation supporting year-end financial statement results.

External Relationships

• Develops and maintains good working relationships with external partners, regulators, and industry associations.

• Represents salvage operations in regular collaboration sessions with multiple SGI business units.

• Administers the annual customer surveys, presents results along with recommended improvements for consideration by divisional leadership.

People Leadership

• Builds a high performing workforce by actively leading human resource activities.

• Ensures development of divisional succession plans.

• Builds a culture of leadership and accountability to effectively deliver on strategic and corporate strategies, ensuring integration with employee performance development and career development plans.

• Drives performance through team members and is committed to leadership development across the company, supporting employees.

Education and Experience

• Four-year degree from an accredited post-secondary education institution in a relevant field of study such as Business or Mathematics & Applied Science.

• A Chartered Professional Accounting (CPA) designation.

• Ten years’ experience comprised of six years leadership experience with increasing responsibility and four years’ experience in a senior level accounting role.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of accounting concepts, guidelines and principles and their application to work requirements.

• Knowledge of PST and GST tax laws and its application to retail operations, specifically the used auto and auto recycling industry.

• Knowledge of salvage operations and salvage systems (Car-Part products and Bid Site).

• Knowledge of systems design and development.

• Knowledge of the services provided by the division and partner agencies and associations.

• Knowledge of procedures and practices of business operations at SGI.

• Knowledge of market pricing as it relates to salvage parts.

• Knowledge and ability to use Microsoft Excel and Access.

Pay Range: $122,139.00 - $162,859.00

Posting Close Date: February 10, 2026

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