Senior Business Partner, Finance

Socket.dev; Vancouver; Hybrid; CAD 104,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual vacation

Performance incentives

Pension plan

Insurance

Training & mentorship

Inclusive culture

Job summary

CMHC is seeking a Senior Business Partner, Finance in a hybrid capacity across multiple Canadian offices. The role leads strategic and operational financial advisory, builds robust financial processes, and delivers business insights to support CMHC’s housing system objectives.

The position emphasizes collaboration, governance, and value creation across the finance function. The successful candidate will have a minimum of seven years in FP&A or related roles, bilingual English/French, and an

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, business administration, economics or commerce.
• Seven years of experience in a finance-related role such as FP&A, Finance Business Partnering, Business Analysis, Business Improvement or Commercial Finance.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage several ongoing and competing projects.
• Strong ability to prioritize and work in a multi-demand environment while overseeing the work of other financial professionals with strong interpersonal and team leadership skills.
• Results-oriented team player with strong analytical thinking, business acumen, and a talent for turning complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Proactively anticipates future business needs.
• Written and oral communication skills including presentation skills with the ability to influence multiple levels of stakeholders.
• Bilingualism (English and French).

Responsibilities

• Foster a business-partnering dynamic, understand both finance and business dimensions and focus on providing proactive analysis and guidance to clients, leveraging available systems and tools.
• Help clients navigate end-to-end financial requirements and establish robust financial processes that provide business insights on decision-making needs.
• Lead finance business improvement activities covering processes, system and reporting enhancements focused on transformation, productivity and value creation.
• Collaborate on the development, implementation, standardization and monitoring of performance indicators, measures and targets to ensure that stakeholder expectations are met.
• Apply an understanding of business performance measures and deliver analysis and advice which provides meaningful insights into the underlying drivers of performance for operational and strategic metrics, key expense performance indicators, benchmark comparisons and other variables, and provide recommendations to senior management to optimize client performance.
• Provide advice, guidance and recommendation to internal clients, ranging from middle management to senior vice-presidents, with regards to business initiatives, business cases, guidelines, policies, risk management, financial planning and expenses in line with CMHC’s strategy.
• Conduct analyses to cost, evaluate, challenge and support business cases including narratives and ensure they support CMHC’s overall strategy.

Skills

Organizational skills

Analytical thinking

Team leadership

Communication skills

Bilingual English/French

Education

Undergraduate degree in accounting/finance/business/economics/commerce

Tools

IFRS knowledge

Job description

Job Requisition ID: 12525

Position Status:Permanent Full Time

Position Type:Hybrid

Office Location:Ottawa (ON); Calgary (AB); Halifax (NS); Montreal (QC); Toronto (ON); Vancouver (BC)

Travel Requirement:Limited

Language Designation:Bilingual

Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak):CBC

Security Requirement: Secret

Salary: Our salaries generally range from $104180.28to $130225.36and are based on qualifications and experience.

About CMHC

The work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to contribute to a well-functioning housing system.

At CMHC, we hold ourselves accountable for our results and support our colleagues in their achievements. We thrive on collaboration, connecting across CMHC and involving the right people to get our work done. Our leadership style is guided by trust, where our leaders favour an adaptive approach based on the needs of their teams.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s the comprehensive and generous benefits you get when you’re a permanent employee:

• Annual Paid vacation.
• Annual individual performance incentive.
• Defined benefit pension plan.
• Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one.
• Support towards your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more.
• An inclusive workplace culture and environment.

About the role

Join the Financial Corporate Planning and Partnership team, in the Senior Business Partner, Finance position. You will lead the synthesis and delivery of strategic and operational financial advisory services. You will act as a business partner, establish robust financial processes and provide business insights on which financial decisions can be made. You will also proactively develop an in-depth understanding of the business operations through discussion and analysis, distilling financial needs end-to-end for the finance function and gaining trust as a business partner. You will be heavily involved in the business improvement to manage a portfolio of process, system and reporting improvements. You will conduct financial modelling activities, develop, implement, interpret and report on performance measures.

What you’ll do:

• Foster a business-partnering dynamic, understand both finance and business dimensions and focus on providing proactive analysis and guidance to clients, leveraging available systems and tools.
• Helping clients navigate end-to-end financial requirements and establish robust financial processes that provide business insights on decision-making needs.
• Lead finance business improvement activities covering processes, system and reporting enhancements focused on transformation, productivity and value creation.
• Collaborate on the development, implementation, standardization and monitoring of performance indicators, measures and targets to ensure that stakeholder expectations are met.
• Apply an understanding of business performance measures and deliver analysis and advice which provides meaningful insights into the underlying drivers of performance for operational and strategic metrics, key expense performance indicators, benchmark comparisons and other variables, and provide recommendations to senior management to optimize client performance.
• Provide advice, guidance and recommendation to internal clients, ranging from middle management to senior vice-presidents, with regards to business initiatives, business cases, guidelines, policies, risk management, financial planning and expenses in line with CMHC’s strategy.
• Conduct analyses to cost, evaluate, challenge and support business cases including narratives and ensure they support CMHC’s overall strategy.

What you should have:

• An undergraduate degree in a relevant field such as accounting, finance, business administration, economics or commerce.
• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in a finance-related role such as FP&A, Finance Business Partnering, Business Analysis, Business Improvement or Commercial Finance.
• Excellent organizational skills to manage several ongoing and competing projects.
• Strong ability to prioritize and work in a multi-demand environment while overseeing the work of other financial professionals with strong interpersonal and team leadership skills.
• Results-oriented team player with strong analytical thinking, business acumen, and a talent for turning complex information into actionable recommendations.
• Proactively anticipates future business needs.
• Written and oral communication skills including presentation skills with the ability to influence multiple levels of stakeholders.
• Bilingualism (English and French).

It would be great if you also had:

• An MBA or professional designation (CA, CGA, CMA, CPA, CFA).
• Experience with IFRS.

Posting closing date:

Note, the competition will remain active until filled.

Our commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion

We’re committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion

What happens after you apply

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