Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis

Position Type:Perm, Full-Time

Hours:35 hours per week

Department:Finance & Operations

Reports To: Director of Finance/Controller

Final date to receive applications:
August 28, 2026 at 5pm

The Finance department is accountable for the integrity, accuracy, and transparency of Heritage Park’s financial information. It leads all core financial functions, including accounting, financial reporting, budgeting, forecasting, and cash management, while maintaining a strong internal control environment.

The department ensures disciplined financial operations, compliance with not-for-profit standards, and effective stewardship of public and restricted funds. It provides timely, decision-ready financial insights to leadership and drives financial accountability across the organization to support long-term sustainability.

As Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis, this role builds the Park's forward-looking finance capability: the annual budget, quarterly reforecasts, costing, business cases and the shared labour-budget model with People & Culture. Reporting to the Director of Finance / Controller and leading a Financial Analyst, the role is the named finance partner to every budget-holding department and carries the planning-tools and business-intelligence mandate of the systems-maturity roadmap.

• Run the annual budget cycle to a published calendar, holding dates and quality standards across all departments.
• Deliver quarterly reforecasts to ELT with variance analysis and corrective options.
• Co-own the labour budget with People & Culture - the largest controllable cost, spanning a seasonal workforce.
• Prepare monthly financial analysis and written commentary that explains variances, trends, risks, and operational drivers, ensuring leaders have clear, actionable insight.

• Serve as the named finance contact for budget-holding departments, ensuring budget queries are addressed promptly and with clear guidance.
• Build business cases and pricing/costing analysis for new opportunities, capital proposals and operational changes.
• Provide costing discipline for capital projects in partnership with the Director and CFO.

• Carry the planning-tools and BI mandate of the systems-maturity roadmap: standard dashboards, driver-based models and self-serve reporting for leaders.
• Develop KPI reporting that links the corporate strategy and Balanced Scorecard to department performance.
• Maintain a monthly reporting rhythm that integrates financial results, KPIs, and narrative commentary into a cohesive performance story for ELT and budget owners.

• Lead, coach and develop the Financial Analyst with clear standards, workload balance and development plans.
• Model Commitment + Performance: care for people paired with accountability for results.
• Champion volunteer engagement within the team's activities: welcome, orient, supervise and recognize volunteers as integral members of the team within Heritage Park's one-workforce model.
• Maintain documented procedures and cross-training so no seat is a single point of failure.

• Demonstrate commitment to workplace health and safety by complying with Heritage Park's Health, Safety and Environment Management System (HSEMS), following safe work practices, reporting work-related incidents, injuries and hazards, participating in employer training, and adhering to policies including the Code of Conduct and the Workplace Violence and Harassment policy.
• As a people leader, ensure direct reports complete required safety training, conduct hazard assessments relevant to the team's activities, report and support investigation of incidents within 24 hours, and participate in inspections and COR audit requirements.
• Contribute to the safety measures on the Management Balanced Scorecard
  - Total Recordable Incident Frequency (2026 target: 2.0, with zero serious incidents at the Park) and COR certification (2026 target: 88%).

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