About Us
One of BC’s Top Employers, the City of Coquitlam offers meaningful career opportunities to make a difference within the local community. As the sixth largest city in BC, we are home to more than 150,000 residents. Our diverse municipality is a great place to work as it continues to grow through innovative urban design, inspiring arts, culture and recreation programs, and state-of-the-art transportation systems.
Our brand is built on managing our resources in a responsible and sustainable manner, while supporting a vibrant, growing regional urban centre.
We envision a bright future in Coquitlam that we hope includes you!
About You / What We Are Looking For
The City of Coquitlam is seeking a strategic, highly analytical, and collaborative professional to join our Planning and Development Department as the temporary Manager of Business Services
. This role is ideal for a strong business leader who thrives in complex environments, brings a systems-thinking mindset, and is motivated by continuous improvement in public service delivery.
As part of the Business Services Division, this position plays a critical role in enabling the Planning and Development Department to deliver on its mandate by providing strong financial leadership, governance oversight, forecasting expertise, and internal controls. You will work within a multidisciplinary team that supports business process development, data intelligence and analytics (including GIS), strategic planning, finance, administration, and governance for a department of approximately 125 full-time employees.
Reporting to the Manager, Business and Innovation
, you will support departmental leadership and senior management through high-quality analysis, forecasting, reporting, and strategic initiatives. This role requires someone who can build trusted relationships across the organization, translate complex data into meaningful insights, and confidently contribute to corporate-wide discussions involving finance, policy, and long-term planning.
Main Responsibilities
· Manage the Department’s annual budget process, including coordination, analysis, and submission.
· Prepare and oversee trimester financial reporting, including variance analysis and executive-level reporting.
· Develop, manage, and continuously refine comprehensive operating and capital revenueforecasts, recognizing the complexity and materiality of departmental revenues.
· Design, maintain, and evolve a multi-faceted long-term capital revenue forecast that informs the City’s long-term capital plan funding, leveraging data from the Official Community Plan (OCP)
· Collaborate closely with Finance to ensure alignment with corporate financial strategies, accounting standards and long-term financial planning.
· Support the reporting of department and divisional KPI’s or other data metrics as needed.
· Identify, assess, and proactively manage financial, operational, and governance risks within the department by establishing mitigation strategies, strengthening internal controls, and ensuring alignment with corporate risk management frameworks.
· Provide support for internal governance documentation, including the preparation of standard operating procedures, and business processes documentation.
· Supervise finance staff while contributing to broader divisional initiatives.
· Act as a key liaison with other City departments, supporting cross-functional initiatives, interdepartmental projects, and corporate priorities.
· Support the Manager, Business and Innovation with strategic initiatives, innovation projects, Council and corporate reports, and financial updates, including trimester reporting.
· Prepare and present clear, concise, and defensible reports for senior leadership, Council, and corporate stakeholders.
Minimum Qualifications
· Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Accounting, Commerce, or a related discipline.
· Minimum five (5) years of experience in a strategic management or senior professional role.
· Demonstrated experience preparing and managing complex operating and capital budgets.
· Proven experience writing public-facing and/or executive-level reports.
· Solutions-oriented and innovative…
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