Senior Financial Business Partner, Finance

3 weeks ago

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada CMHC - SCHL Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Financial Business Partner to join our Corporate Enterprise Portfolio Management team. As a key member of our team, you will be responsible for providing strategic and operational financial advisory services to our clients.

As a Senior Financial Business Partner, you will lead the synthesis and delivery of financial advisory services, acting as a business partner to establish robust financial processes and provide business insights on which financial decisions can be made. You will also be responsible for developing an in-depth understanding of business operations through discussion and analysis, distilling financial needs end-to-end for the finance function and gaining trust as a business partner.

You will be heavily involved in business improvement activities, managing a portfolio of process, system, and reporting improvements. You will conduct financial modeling activities, develop, implement, interpret, and report on performance measures.

Key Responsibilities
  • Foster a business-partnering dynamic, understand both finance and business dimensions, and focus on providing proactive analysis and guidance to clients, leveraging available systems and tools.
  • Act as the single window to Finance, helping clients navigate end-to-end financial requirements, establish robust financial processes that provide business insights on decision-making needs.
  • Lead finance business improvement activities covering processes, system, and reporting enhancements focused on transformation, productivity, and value creation.
  • Collaborate on the development, implementation, standardization, and monitoring of performance indicators, measures, and targets to ensure that stakeholder expectations are met.
  • Apply an understanding of business performance measures and deliver analysis and advice that provides meaningful insights into the underlying drivers of performance for operational and strategic metrics, key expense performance indicators, benchmark comparisons, and other variables, and provide recommendations to senior management to optimize client performance.
  • Provide advice, guidance, and recommendations to internal clients (ranging from middle management to senior vice-presidents) with regards to business initiatives, business cases, guidelines, policies, risk management, financial planning, and costing in line with CMHC's strategy.
  • Conduct analyses to cost, evaluate, challenge, and support business cases, including narratives, and ensure they support CMHC's overall strategy.
Requirements
  • An undergraduate degree in a relevant field such as accounting, finance, business administration, economics, or commerce.
  • A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in a finance-related role such as FP&A, Finance Business Partnering, Business Analysis, Business Improvement, or Commercial Finance.
  • Excellent organizational skills to manage several ongoing and competing projects.
  • Strong ability to prioritize and work in a multi-demand environment while overseeing the work of other financial professionals with strong interpersonal and team leadership skills.
  • Results-oriented, team player, strong analytical skills, critical thinking, storytelling with business acumen.
  • An excellent ability to gather and analyze information, synthesize key elements, and summarize with recommendations.
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills, with the ability to influence multiple levels of stakeholders within an organization.
  • Bilingualism (English and French).
Preferred Qualifications
  • An MBA or professional designation (CA, CFA, CGA, CMA, CPA).
  • A Green Belt or PMP designation.
  • Experience with IFRS.
About CMHC

CMHC is an inclusive workplace where diversity of thought – and of people – are recognized, valued, and considered essential to achieving our mission. We are committed to employment equity and encourage women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, veterans, and persons of all races, ethnicities, religions, abilities, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions to apply. We also welcome applications from non-Canadians who are eligible to work in Canada.

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