Associate Financial Partner

**Associate Financial Partner**

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**What you will do**
Reporting to the Director of Business Partnering in the Strategic & Financial Advice (SFA) business line of Financial Services (FIN), you provide strategic and financial advice to facilitate sound decision making that supports corporate and business objectives. You will also be contributing to the formulation of the Bank’s strategic plan, ensuring effective corporate planning, management of financial resources and management of enterprise risks for the Bank’s departments and portfolio of initiatives.

As the Associate Financial Partner, you build and foster strong, trusting relationships with designated governance bodies across the Bank, as well as departmental business partners, Human Resources (HR) partners and Information Technology (IT) partners.

Specifically, you will:

- lead the budget planning, forecasting and reporting for the Bank’s departments and portfolio of initiatives
- monitor and analyze the overall performance of departmental budgets or portfolios of projects, as well as their impact on corporate objectives, identifying trends, impacts and mitigation strategies
- provide information/reports/dashboards for sound management decision making
- provide value-added advice for the development of project investment proposals, considering risks, benefits and other parameters
- provide financial and strategic advice to the Bank’s departmental leadership teams and project portfolios
- actively influence day to day decisions, shaping strategy and the direction of the departments / Bank
- ensure key business performance risks, issues, and opportunities are highlighted to relevant stakeholders
- develop financial models that consider the Bank’s financial framework and aligned with stewardship of public funds
- act as an advocate for understanding cost drivers and cost control

**What you need to succeed**
- intellectual leadership and broad experience in different aspects of financial management, accounting and project support
- ability to provide timely and sound strategic financial management advice and guidance at all levels within an organization
- ability to handle complex business challenges effectively
- excellent ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing, including conveying complex and sensitive information in an appropriate manner
- ability to adapt influencing style to different situations
- ability to connect details and see the big picture
- strategic outlook and ability to conceptualize and communicate financial and organizational objectives
- strong focus on outcomes and demonstrated ability to manage changing priorities
- strong interpersonal skills and demonstrated partnership focus

**Nice-to-have**
- knowledge of Canadian banking processes
- experience working with the enterprise resource planning system SAP
- experience working with Workday Adaptive Planning for financial planning
- work experience in both the public and private sectors

**Your education and experience**
- a university degree in a related field
- a recognized Canadian (or reciprocal) accounting designation (CPA, CA/CPA, CMA/CPA, CGA) or in the process of obtaining one.
- a minimum of five years of relevant experience

or
- an equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered

**What you need to know**
- Language requirement: English and French essential (bilingual) with a minimum starting level of functional (level 4) in second official language. Training may be provided to help reach the required level of fully functional (level 5) in second official language.
- Priority will be given to Canadian citizens and permanent residents
- Security level required: Be eligible to obtain Reliability
- There will be no relocation assistance provided
- Please save a copy of the job poster. Once the closing date has passed, it will no longer be available.

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