Finance Business Partner

Overview

The Marine Group Finance Business Partner team is responsible for the long-term business planning, budgeting, forecasting, financial analysis, and board reporting process. This role focuses on the Seaspan Ferries Business, which is part of the Marine Group. Seaspan Ferries Business serves the Vancouver Island supply chain via commercial ferry services for general freight products, consumer goods, regulated commodities and automobiles between the various Vancouver Island and Greater Vancouver ferry terminals.

The business has a fleet of seven vessels. This role collaborates and assists with the annual budget, periodic forecasting, short and long-term cashflow forecasting, capital project and operating project review processes. The Finance Business Partner delivers financial modelling and scenario analysis to assist business operations and development in making informed decisions. The Finance Business Partner partners with divisions, operations, commercial and business development personnel to model major investments for asset replacement, infrastructure investments and business opportunities.

The Manager, Finance Business Partner reports to the Senior Manager, Finance Business Partner.

• Continually partnering with the Seaspan Ferries operations and logistics teams to enhance financial analysis and reporting, including assisting these teams where necessary to make better strategic business decisions.
• Assist with coordinating and producing the long-term financial modelling, board financial reporting, annual budgeting, and periodic forecasting processes.
• Assist with collating and producing monthly business financial reviews, including financial, operational and safety reporting for presentations to Senior Leadership.
• Support strategic initiatives for business case development. Provide advice, validation, and coordination to project initiators. Produce analysis, reporting, budgeting, and forecasting advisory.
• Assist and produce investment models for asset replacement, infrastructure investments and business opportunities.
• Performs cost analysis to determine areas of possible inefficiency and communicate those findings to operational management to determine root cause and/or corrective action.
• Designs and maintains standard financial reports and compiles and validates monthly consolidated reporting package, working closely with the Senior Leadership team.
• Conducts analysis for new customer contracts and pricing model reviews, including audit of existing contracts.
• Support systems implementation projects and continually improve processes.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

• Undergraduate degree in Business, Finance, Economics, or related field.
• Professional Designation (CPA, CFA, etc.) or MBA (or equivalent) is required.
• Minimum 10 years of work experience in accounting or finance, with at least 2 years in a FP&A role.
• Project Management designation is an asset, and/or equivalent experience.
• Experience in modelling, analysis, and reporting.
• Experience collaborating with Operations and Logistics teams.
• Skilled at asking probing questions to deepen understanding of business issues.
• Ability to build and maintain relationships at all levels of the organization.
• Prioritization and planning abilities, ability to align across functions.
• Goal oriented, open minded, and possesses a high level of integrity.
• Attention to detail, critical thinking, negotiating, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Outlook, PowerPoint) with advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint presentations.
• Knowledge of accounting and financial analysis concepts, practices, processes, and procedures.
• Highly skilled in ERP business systems (Oracle preferred) and data analytic tools.
• Advanced financial, economic, and Excel modelling and data analysis.
• Leadership and communications skills with ability to communicate with others with tact and diplomacy.

• This is a full-time, permanent position. With multiple operations and long-term projects, Seaspan employees enjoy job stability as we look ahead to build ships for decades to come.
• In addition to an annual…