Commercial Finance Manager

The Commercial Finance Manager (CFM) serves as a consolidated Business Advisor and strategic partner across assigned Business Units (BUs) and Practices. Reporting to the Director, Business Performance, the CFM moves beyond traditional financial analysis to evaluate the business holistically across market opportunities, client relationships, risk, and profitability. Rather than acting as a passive financial analyst, the CFM operates as a confident, decisive advisor who influences day-to-day operational, pricing, and growth decisions.

Technical expertise in the assigned Practice or BU is not required; the ideal candidate is an agile business generalist capable of evaluating performance objectively without internal or client bias.

CFMs will be the first point of contact for questions related to their respective business’ project profitability and will be constantly aware of their respective business team’s ability to meet fiscal targets for revenue and profitability.

This is a new position and can be based at any one of our 25+ offices across Canada. We offer flexible work hours and hybrid work arrangement options to help balance the competing demands of work and personal life.

Dillon Consulting Limited (Dillon) is a proudly Canadian, 100% employee-owned professional consulting firm specializing in planning, engineering, environmental science, and management. With over 25 offices and more than 1100 employees across Canada, we offer a wide range of services related to building and improving facilities and infrastructure, protecting the environment, and developing communities.

At Dillon, we strive to remain at the forefront of technology and innovation and thrive on interdisciplinary collaboration, empowering our people to challenge conventional thinking and build careers focused on creating a lasting impact in our communities. We are committed to ongoing professional development and celebrate the unique perspectives that each team member brings to the table.

Employee ownership is available to all Dillon team members, and over 60% of our employees own shares in Dillon. Through employee ownership, we return the financial benefit created by our project work to the very people who created that value. Because we are an employee-owned firm, your voice will be an essential part of our shared success.

• Financial Planning and Strategic Oversight Support: To ensure standardized performance tracking and enable long-term financial health through disciplined budgeting and investment evaluation. CFMs drive annual budget and quarterly forecasting processes within their assigned portfolios. In Practices, they support setting annual headcount budgets, loaded labour rates, utilization targets, and portfolio spend budgets. In BUs, they support BU sales targets, adjusted contribution margins, variance improvement targets, client tracking, and sales function budgets/forecasts (including headcount and costs).
  
  Additionally, CFMs enforce centrally defined Finance performance metrics to ensure standardized score-keeping across teams, while serving as a strategic check on Practice hiring by evaluating the long-term ROI and financial upside of high-salary recruits.
• Pipeline, Backlog and Client Strategy Support: To maintain clear visibility into revenue health and focus business development efforts on sustainable, high-value client relationships rather than short-term projects. CFMs support business leads in keeping a clear line of sight on project revenue fill rates (budgeted sales less current fiscal year portion of backlog and pipeline), project profitability, and early variance identification. They reorient sales tracking to prioritize repeat business and core client accounts meeting…