Manager, Financial Planning and Performance

Under the general direction of the Senior Manager Finance, the Manager Financial Planning and Performance will work on a variety of assignments, ideating new ways to complete deliverables and lead the team through a strategic finance transformation. This role will be key in implementing strategies to deliver value-added analysis and meaningful financial/operational reporting that leads to insightful business decision making and effective performance management.

• Provide leadership, manage, coach, and motivate a team of Financial Planning Advisors; this includes providing direction, expertise and advice to employees, identifying employee training requirements, and formally managing the performance of employees.
• Work closely with Human Resources to manage all elements of employee relations, including hiring, terminations, training, and performance appraisals for the employee file, administering progressive discipline, and resolving labour relations issues and/or grievances.
• Drive resource and capacity management across the teams to support projects and allocation of assignments.
• Be a positive force for change, identify opportunities to partner with the business unit teams to continually improve the company’s financial performance, including financial statement planning.
• Identify and leverage individual strengths and potential within the team.
• Facilitate team discussions around departmental plans and their contributions toward common goals.
• Set clear expectations and allow team members to take ownership of their areas of responsibility.
• Evaluate recommendations from the team to resolve challenging issues and generate new ideas to streamline or automate processes to continuously improve service delivery while maintaining controls.

• Lead in-depth financial analysis to provide valuable insights into the company's financial performance, identifying trends and generating reports that inform business decision-making.
• Provide recommendations for improvements based on thorough analysis, this includes leading changes to processes, or strategies to enhance overall business performance, including, but not limited to the enhancement and automation of reporting by leveraging technology.
• Contribute to the organization’s operational and strategic objectives, along with strategic projects and initiatives in a manner which ensures compliance with legislative and regulatory frameworks and generally accepted accounting principles, ensuring that sound internal controls are in place to manage risk.
• Lead and delegate the month-end and quarter-end close processes and ensure that all accounting allocations are appropriately made and documented.
• Review monthly, quarterly, and annual Internal Controls Over Financial Reporting (“ICFR”), including balance sheet reconciliations.
• Provide leadership to business units to optimize capital and operating budgets (i.e. cost management), drive improvements to capital cost management and track program progress.
• Lead and review the monthly forecasting and annual budgeting process for various portfolios.
• Accurately translate operational changes into a financial forecast to provide business insights.
• Identify key drivers while gaining a thorough understanding of the business model.
• Provide insight into financial results regarding revenue, operating expenses, and net earnings.
• Prepare budgets and variance analyses and work closely with business and regulatory teams to ensure budget and regulated funding level compliance.
• Support the finance team’s assessment of migration to SAP S/4
  
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• Lead the end-to-end development of the organization’s annual business plan, including timelines, frameworks, assumptions, and deliverables.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to translate strategic priorities into a cohesive, financially aligned business plan.
• Establish planning guidelines, key assumptions, and financial targets to ensure consistency, rigor, and alignment.
• Oversee the consolidation, review, and validation of business unit inputs, ensuring accuracy and completeness.
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