Director, Strategy and Corporate Development

Connection is everything. It drives us to innovate, explore, and stay close to what matters to us most. At Bell, we’re building a more connected future through world-class networks, AI-powered solutions, and digital experiences that elevate how people live, work, and play every day.

We believe in empowering people. That’s why we equip our teams with cutting-edge technology, AI tools, and a collaborative environment that supports creativity and growth. Want to be part of a diverse team where your work makes a real impact? If you’re inspired by innovation that advances how people connect and transforms what’s possible, you belong on #Team Bell.

At Bell, your skills and expertise will help set us apart as we continue to be the leading provider of digital connections and next generation services to businesses and governments.

Bell AI Fabric is building Canada's largest sovereign AI infrastructure platform. As Director, Strategic Finance & Corporate Development, you will work at the centre of Bell AI Fabric's most important investment, capital allocation, commercial, and growth decisions, providing the financial insight and execution discipline required to scale the business.

This is a highly visible, hands‑on finance role with unusual breadth and access. Working directly with senior executives, the Bell AI Fabric Board, Bell Finance leadership, and business teams, you will lead business cases, financial modelling, capital planning, performance analysis, and finance support for major customer, partnership, and infrastructure opportunities.

You will turn complex operational, commercial, tax, and accounting inputs into clear financial conclusions and decision‑ready materials. You will also manage and develop team members, set priorities, review work closely, and raise the quality, precision, and pace of the team's output.

This is a unique opportunity for a finance, consulting, investment banking, or corporate development professional who wants to help build something consequential and expand their responsibilities quickly. You do not need to arrive knowing every aspect of the business. Success will come from curiosity, sound judgment, humility, exceptional care in the work, and a willingness to invest the effort required to learn and figure things out.

• Act as a trusted strategic finance partner to the executive team, leading the financial analysis behind Bell AI Fabric's highest-priority investments, commercial opportunities, and growth initiatives.
• Build, maintain, and drive integrated financial models, business cases, forecasts, sensitivities, and decision tools that connect customer demand, pricing, capacity, capital requirements, operating costs, tax, accounting, and expected returns.
• Lead monthly and quarterly capital allocation processes, assess competing requirements, challenge assumptions, and recommend how capital should be prioritized across projects and opportunities.
• Question business stakeholders constructively and use judgment to reconcile commercial ambition, financial discipline, operational realities, risk, and timing into the best overall financial decision.
• Support major customer opportunities, partnerships, financing initiatives, and transactions through rigorous economics, scenario analysis, financial diligence, and executive recommendations, while partnering with the deal lead on negotiations and structuring.
• Work closely with Tax, Accounting, Treasury, FP&A, Corporate Development, and project teams to ensure financial conclusions reflect the appropriate treatment, assumptions, controls, and enterprise requirements.
• Translate financial priorities into executable workplans with clear outputs, owners,…