Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis

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**Be a Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis with the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority**

**Location**:Vancouver, Canada

**Job Type**:Full-Time, Permanent, Hybrid (Limited/Moderate/In-office)

Join our team as a **Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis**, where your unique background and skills will contribute to our mission of ensuring a sustainable future for all Canadians.

**Who we are**:
At the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, we are committed to diversity, inclusion, and sustainability. We believe in creating a workplace that reflects the richness of our community and empowers all employees to reach their full potential.

We are a critical player in Canada’s economy, responsible for the stewardship of the lands and waters that make up the Port of Vancouver - the largest and most diversified port in the country. Our work aligns with Canada’s trade objectives, ensuring goods move through the port safely and responsibly. As a federal agency, we are deeply committed to preserving the environment and supporting the local community, guided by our values of collaboration, continuous improvement, accountability, and customer responsiveness.

**Position overview**:
The Manager, Financial Planning and Analysis is responsible for ensuring strong financial management and decision making at the Corporate VFPA level. This role will be a business partner to support VFPA in providing financial analyses of, and business case development support to, capital and operating projects/programs, including advising on the development of supporting revenue structures. This position also provides consolidated variance analysis to operating departments and capital programs and manages the development of VFPA’s five-year financial plans and capital plans, annual operating and capital budgets, and balanced scorecards, management reports, and KPI dashboards. Working with the supported divisions, this position will from time to time participate in external commercial discussions and negotiations.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Manage the provision of financial analyses of capital and operating projects/programs, including providing recommendations for appropriate operating margins, commercial terms, and strategies to manage financial risk, and generally providing financial guidance and inputs to departments as required to drive improvements in business performance.
- Develop business cases to support the organization’s decision making, including consideration of alternative approaches, analysis of key risks, and development of mitigations where optimal.
- Guide and review the financial analysis of VFPA’s fees and leases where they support operating programs.
- Manage the development of VFPA’s five-year financial, capital and borrowing plans and annual operating and capital budgets, including risk, sensitivity, and affordability analysis.
- Advise departments in management of costs through the provision of accurate, complete, and timely variance analysis and assist in the formulation of follow-up action plans.
- Advise departments with the development of project cost estimates and updated budgets and forecasts.
- Manage the development of VFPA’s annual balanced scorecards, including efficiency metrics and subsequent progress reporting.
- Manage the development of processes and system tools relating to financial planning and performance reporting.
- Plan, implement and review departmental staffing requirements for areas of responsibility, including the determination of clear position descriptions, accountabilities, and reporting arrangements to optimize service delivery to all stakeholders.
- Liaise with Human Resources to ensure the effective selection, training, and performance management of staff.
- Represent VFPA in negotiations, at conferences and conventions, and in the media as required, ensuring clear communication of the business strategy and key messages, and the presentation of a positive and professional image of the business.
- Provide support, build relationships, and share knowledge across other VFPA departments.

**We are looking for**:

- Excellent leadership qualities and management skills.
- Excellent communication and public speaking skills to with the ability interface with all contacts including business, government, and the public
- A strong customer service orientation while managing a breadth of responsibilities.
- An ability demonstrate effective decision-making, planning and initiative, while fostering the development of all these competencies in VFPA’s emerging leaders.

**Why join us?**

In this role, we can offer you:

- Competitive base compensation with variable incentive pay.
- Inclusive and robust total rewards offering including retirement planning.
- Earned time off program.
- Paid vacation and personal care leave.
- Learning, development, and advancement opportunities.
- Onsite gym with towel service in a national landma