Senior Human Resources Generalist

ARES Staffing Solutions; Vaughan; On-site; CAD 224,000 - 252,000; Full time

Job summary

Vaco by Highspring seeks a Strategic Finance Business Partner to deliver financial leadership to the CIO and Technology Leadership Team. You will drive cloud Financial Operations, build models to monitor cloud and SaaS costs, and provide decision-ready analyses for technology investments.

Join a high-growth tech organization, oversee capitalized software, R&D, and cost allocations, and partner with FP&A to support executive decision-making and long-range planning.

Qualifications

• 10-15+ years of progressive FP&A experience.
• CPA designation preferred (MBA, CFA, or exceptional profile may be considered).
• Experience in Technology Finance, IT Business Partnering, and/or FinOps.
• Experience supporting cloud spend, technology investment planning, software capitalization, and/or FinOps activities.
• Experience serving as a finance partner to CIO/CTO/Infrastructure/Cybersecurity/Engineering/Data organizations.

Responsibilities

• Serve as trusted strategic advisor to the CIO and Leadership Team with financial leadership and governance across technology spend.
• Drive FinOps and model cost to monitor, forecast, and optimize cloud infrastructure and SaaS costs.
• Provide ROI tracking and business case development for major tech investments and cybersecurity initiatives.
• Oversee technology capitalization governance (IAS 38 / IFRS) and capital project portfolios.
• Lead planning for budgets, multi-year plans, and rolling forecasts; shape tech cost allocation.

Skills

Strategic financial leadership

FinOps

Cloud spend management

Vendor spend analytics

Financial modeling

Education

CPA designation

Job description

Why Work Here

• Sits at the tech leadership table and acts as the CIO’s finance business parter


• This role has a lot of room to grow and expand the function


• Lots of M&A – room to transition into other business lines, or grow in the technology division

About the Opportunity

Strategic Finance Business Partnering

• Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CIO and Leadership Team, providing financial leadership, strategic guidance, and commercial governance across all technology spend.


• Drive cloud financial management (FinOps), developing models to monitor, forecast, and optimize variable cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, GCP), SaaS licensing, and emerging GenAI consumption costs.


• Provide rigorous business case development and ROI tracking for major technology investments, cybersecurity initiatives, enterprise platform upgrades, and infrastructure refresh cycles.


• Oversee technology capitalization governance (IAS 38 / IFRS), optimizing the financial treatment of internally developed software, R&D, and capital project portfolios.


• Accountable for the consolidated planning (budgets, multi-year strategic plans, and rolling forecasts) for the organization.


• Partner with Central Corporate FP&A to shape the technology cost allocation framework (Shared Services / CAM), helping defend technology charges and articulate unit-cost value to business unit leaders.


• Lead vendor spend analytics and commercial evaluations for major technology, hardware, and software contract negotiations.


• Ensure pristine financial integrity, accounting rigor, and month-end/quarter-end reporting accuracy for all operational and capital ledgers.


• Support a deeper understanding of the technology cost base, enabling the organization to adapt to a rapidly changing technology landscape and increased adoption of cloud and AI services.


• Provide in-depth, highly personalized decision support to executive decision-makers, including initiative modelling and tracking, business case development, proactively guiding executives to meet and exceed performance goals, and monitoring leading indicators.


• Deepen non-executive decisionmakers' FP&A acumen to enable more independent decision-making.


• Act as a member of the I.T Senior Leadership Team and a key advisor to the CIO.

Other

• Collaborate with PMO and Corporate FP&A teams on enterprise portfolio governance.


• Partner with Corporate FP&A, Corporate Strategy, and Strategic Finance teams to advance enterprise analysis and insight generation.


• Partner with the Corporate Controller to migrate appropriate portions of accounting work to the central accounting team.


• Champion and participate in knowledge-sharing forums for FBPs and FP&A professionals to exchange lessons learned on how best to educate decision-makers on FP&A thought processes during decision support.

About You

• 10-15+ years of progressive FP&A experience


• CPA designation preferred (may consider MBA, CFA, or an exceptional \"bullseye\" profile)


• Experience in Technology Finance, IT Business Partnering, and/or FinOps


• Experience supporting cloud spend, technology investment planning, software capitalization, and/or FinOps activities


• Experience serving as a finance partner to a CIO, CTO, Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or Data organization

Salary Range

$160,000 - $180,000/year

EEO Notice

Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail] .

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Additionally, submissions to this position are subject to the use of AI to perform preliminary candidate screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. More details about Vaco by Highspring’s use of AI can be found here ( https://www.highspring.com/ai-use-notices/ ). Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco by Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;


• licensure and certification requirements;


• office location and other geographic considerations;


• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.