VP, Finance, Corporate Segments and Total Company Expenses

Sun Life; Toronto; Hybrid; CAD 195.000 - 270.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Hybrid work model

Competitive compensation

Diversity and inclusion

Zusammenfassung

Sun Life in Canada seeks a senior finance leader to oversee corporate functions and total company expenses, providing strategic leadership, planning, forecasting, reporting and performance management across global functions.

The VP will partner with senior executives, translate strategies into financial implications, manage cost allocation, and drive productivity initiatives while ensuring governance and investment decisions align with the enterprise priorities. Hybrid work model offered.

Qualifikationen

• Senior finance leader with 10+ years in financial management.
• Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, expense management and governance.
• Strong IFRS knowledge and ability to partner with senior leaders.
• Proven ability to lead teams and influence decisions across a matrix organization.

Aufgaben

• Lead planning, forecasting, reporting and performance management across Corporate Functions.
• Translate strategies into financial implications, resource needs and investments.
• Provide enterprise-wide expense insights and governance across geographies.
• Develop cost allocation methodologies and drive productivity programs.
• Communicate clear narratives on drivers of expense performance to executives.

Kenntnisse

Leadership

FP&A

Financial analysis

Strategic thinking

Communication

Ausbildung

Accounting designation

Jobbeschreibung

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. At Sun Life, we're driven by our Purpose: helping our Clients achieve lifetime financial security and live healthier lives. Our values shape how we work: caring, authentic, bold, inspiring, and impactful. When you join Sun Life, you'll work with passionate colleagues and empowering leaders who support your growth and celebrate your contributions, so you can make a meaningful difference in our Clients' lives. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world.

Job Description: The Vice President, Finance, Corporate Functions and Total Company Expenses is a senior Finance leader responsible for providing strategic financial leadership across the organization's global Corporate Functions, enterprise-wide expense management and significant enterprise initiatives. The VP serves as a trusted advisor to senior Corporate Function and Finance executives, bringing an independent, enterprise-wide perspective to financial performance, resource allocation, expense management and investment decisions. Operating across businesses, functions and geographies, the role brings together financial insights to provide senior leadership with a Total Company view of expenses, productivity, investments, risks and opportunities, while ensuring major enterprise initiatives are appropriately prioritized and deliver measurable business value.

Key Role Accountabilities

• Corporate Segment Serve as the senior Finance partner to Corporate Function leaders, providing strategic advice, constructive challenge and decision support.
• Lead planning, forecasting, reporting and performance management across Corporate Functions.
• Translate Corporate Function strategies into clear financial implications, resource requirements and investment choices.
• Provide forward-looking insights on financial performance, emerging risks, opportunities and structural cost drivers.
• Challenge assumptions and recommend actions to improve financial and operational outcomes.
• Maintain view of Corporate Function costs and the underlying services and capabilities driving those costs.
• Lead continued enhancement of Corporate cost allocation methodologies.
• Evolve transparency to Business Groups regarding Corporate services and allocated expenses including balancing transparency and precision with the need for allocation methodologies that are practical, understandable and decision useful.
• Partner with Business Group Finance leaders to understand cost drivers, forecast allocations and identify optimization opportunities.
• Partner with Capital, Investment teams and tax for Corporate segment results, forecasts and plan
• Lead the consolidation, analysis and executive reporting of Total Company expenses.
• Identify underlying expense trends, emerging pressures and opportunities for management action.
• Provide an Enterprise-wide view of expense performance across businesses, functions and geographies.
• Develop forward-looking insights regarding the organization's expense trajectory and key financial sensitivities.
• Partner with Business Group and Corporate Finance teams to establish consistent expense definitions, methodologies and management reporting.
• Provide senior executives with a clear narrative explaining what is driving expense performance, and where sustainable opportunities exist.
• Lead Finance oversight and insights for enterprise expense-management and productivity programs.
• Identify structural opportunities to improve the organization’s cost base and operating leverage.
• Establish frameworks and metrics for measuring productivity and sustainable expense reduction.
• Ensure savings commitments have clearly defined baselines, owners, timing and measurable financial outcomes.
• Track execution against enterprise expense commitments and escalating risks or gaps requiring management intervention.
• Bring external perspectives and financial-services benchmarks into enterprise expense-management discussions.
• Lead the Finance Centre of Excellence for Enterprise Key Initiative governance.
• Establish consistent standards for business cases, financial evaluation and approval of significant enterprise investments.
• Provide independent Finance challenge of investment assumptions, costs, benefits, execution risks and ongoing operating impacts.
• Support executive prioritization of competing investments based on strategic importance, affordability, capacity, risk and expected value.
• Establish appropriate financial governance throughout the investment lifecycle, from initial business case through implementation and benefits realization.
• Continuously enhance investment-governance frameworks and executive reporting.

As the team and company grow, the responsibilities of this position may expand to adapt to changing organizational goals.

Key Skills & Attributes

• Proven experience at building and developing a strong team
• Excellent interpersonal, organizational and team building skills.
• Excellent oral, written and, presentation skills, with strong attention to detail.
• Proven ability to influence the performance of others to deliver results.
• Excellent collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team environment and across multiple sites and multiple business units.
• Strong business acumen with a strong understanding of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9
• Ability to apply advanced financial concepts and capabilities across business activities.
• Experience and knowledge in collaborating with Senior Business and Corporate Leaders.
• Proven experience leading in a matrix model with the ability to foster effective working relationships and negotiate solutions.
• Effective communication, negotiation, and conflict management skills.
• Effective change management, through impact and influence skills.

Education and Experience

• Accounting Designation with 10+ years of experience in the financial management field in a senior leadership role or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, expense management, investment governance and/or business partnering.
• Experience operating within a large, complex, matrixed organization.
• Experience supporting senior executives and influencing decisions across business groups and geographies
• Demonstrated experience leading teams through change.

The Base Pay range is for the primary location for which the job is posted. It may vary depending on the work location of the successful candidate or other factors. In addition to Base Pay, eligible Sun Life employees participate in various incentive plans, payment under which is discretionary and subject to individual and company performance. Certain sales focused roles have sales incentive plans based on individual or group sales results.

Diversity and inclusion have always been at the core of our values at Sun Life. A diverse workforce with wide perspectives and creative ideas benefits our Clients, the communities where we operate and all of us as colleagues. We welcome applications from qualified individuals from all backgrounds. Persons with disabilities who need accommodation in the application process, or those needing job postings in an alternative format, may e-mail a request to [e-mail].

We are proud to be a hybrid organization that offers our employees the choice and flexibility to work from both the office and virtually based on the needs of the business, our Clients and you.

We may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, interview scheduling.

Salary Range: 195,000/195 000 - 270,000/270 000

Job Category: General Management

Posting End Date: 22/11/2026

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