Director, Financial Planning & Business Support

Salary

The salary range for this position is CAD $65.54 - $94.22 / hour

The Director, Financial Planning & Business Support plays a pivotal role in guiding Fraser Health's financial strategy, business planning, and resource allocation. Assigned to our acute care portfolio, this role supports financial planning for all of our acute care hospital sites. Working closely with senior leadership, including our clinical operations executive leaders, the Director ensures financial sustainability by overseeing multi-year corporate financial planning, economic forecasting, and operational budget development.

It also provides critical financial insights and reporting to the Senior Executive Team, Board of Directors and Ministry of Health.

Leading a team of financial professionals, the Director delivers financial expertise and analysis to operational portfolios across Fraser Health and its partnerships with other health authorities. This role is ideal for a strategic financial leader with a CPA designation, deep experience in financial planning, and a strong ability to navigate the complexities of healthcare finance in a large, multifaceted organization.

Reporting to the Executive Director, Financial Planning & Business Support, the Director will be a clear, caring, and courageous leader with the operational and financial expertise to proactively envision and encompass a strategic approach to financial planning and analysis.

The successful candidate will have:

• A degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance or related discipline;
• A CPA recognized professional accounting designation;
• Seven (7) to ten (10) years' recent, related financial accounting experience, including five (5) years leading and mentoring teams in a senior leadership role within a large complex organization; or
• An equivalent combination of education, training and experience. Recent and strong healthcare experience in financial planning or supporting direct clinical care portfolios will be an asset.

Collaborates with the Executive Director, Financial Planning & Business Support to develop, lead and oversee the organization's multi-year corporate operational and business planning processes, economic forecasting, annual operating budget preparation and reporting of the organizations financial position to the Senior Executive, Board of Directors and Ministry of Health including integrating the major elements of the multi-year financial plan such as the operating statement, capital investments, workload and performance measurements.

Provides overall financial support, direction and analysis to designated operational areas within Fraser Health (FH), as well as, across the organization for the Lower Mainland Consolidated Services, PHSA and other health authorities where appropriate; leads a team in developing an assigned portfolio's annual and three year operating budget; monitors and evaluates finance performance to the assigned budget and provides resource recommendations to the portfolio's management group;

leads the development, mission, strategies and goals of the department to ensure the optimum delivery of financial services and resources for designated FH operational areas.

• Develops and recommends short and long term goals and objectives for the designated department ensuring that financial plans support the goals, policies and vision of FH.
• Develops, implements and reviews policies and standards for the relevant departments. Plans and implements operational budgets for the designated department including budget preparation, authorization control and reporting of expenditures.
• Leads the departments in managing the annual and three year operational budget development; ensures that the budget results are considered and reflected in the overall FH operating budgets submitted to the provincial government.
• Provides portfolio performance monitoring, evaluation and forecasting analysis through the FH Quarterly Reports and annual Executive Performance reports in addition to periodic reporting and analysis.
• Leads the relevant operational portfolios in the development of their annual operating budgets ensuring consistency between budget assumptions in the detailed budget with the overall budget for the portfolio.
• Oversees and/or provides leadership to the implementation of the annual financial plan into detailed budgets and reviews corporate-wide results; oversees and/or participates in the development of the Quarterly Financial Report to the Board, the Period End Financial Report to the Executive Team and the forecast and budget analysis for the quarterly Appendix C report to the Ministry of Health.
• Represents the assigned portfolio/Health Authority through participation in committees, working groups and/or negotiations with governments, and/or external service…