Business Manager

**Department Description**:
**Who We Are**

London Health Sciences Centre (LHSC) is a world-class academic health sciences centre located in the southwestern Ontario city of London. Just two hours from Toronto and two hours from Detroit, London features a beautiful and walkable downtown core located on the Thames River, a vibrant culinary scene and scores of activities that highlight local arts, culture and music. As one of Canada’s largest acute-care teaching hospitals, LHSC is a world-class innovator in clinical care, research and teaching, delivering both local and regional services, including the Children’s Hospital, within a large geographic area. LHSC has a workforce of close to 15,000, dedicated to delivering the highest quality patient care while working together to shape the future of health.

The Business Manager role is part of the Corporate Budgeting and Forecasting department, which is part of the Corporate Planning portfolio. This portfolio also includes the Decision Support and Data Analytics department and the Health Information Management department.

**Job Summary**:
**What the Role is**

NOTE: We are hiring two (2) positions

Reporting to the Deputy Corporate Planning Officer with direct support relationships to multiple LHSC leaders (e.g., executives, directors and managers), the Business Manager is accountable to ensure effective business management of their assigned portfolios to maximize the delivery of high quality, safe, and efficient patient care within available budgets. Working with portfolio leaders, the Business Manager coordinates operating budgets, capital equipment, capital budgets, construction budgets, and human resources. Specific attention is provided to budget variance monitoring, working in partnership to optimize expenses and revenues, and ensuring timely and accurate reporting to support internal and external financial and reporting requirements (e.g., to support Ministry of Health requirements and funding reconciliations). The Business Manager is responsible for contributing to the designing and leading of innovative solutions for patient care and staffing issues through review of processes and development of effective alternatives.

Working within the guidelines, policies, and practices of the hospital (Financial, Quality and Performance, Risk Management, and HMMS departments), the role is responsible for proposing, establishing, educating, implementing and monitoring program-wide business planning, reporting, financial and control processes/practices to safeguard corporate assets, and information to enable management to assess and enhance financial and operating performance.
Working with assigned leaders, the Deputy Corporate Planning Officer, and leadership throughout the organization, the Business Manager provides business process redesign expertise to select priority projects and to portfolio processes to ensure effective operations, both within the program and across LHSC and other organizations.

The reporting audience includes Senior Leadership, the Finance Department of LHSC, independent audit firms, and government agencies (e.g., Ministry of Health, Ontario Health).

**Qualifications**:
**Who You Are**
- You are self-aware of own assumptions, values, principles, strengths and limitations
- You manage and develop self while modeling qualities such as honesty, integrity, resilience, and confidence
- You engage and support others to foster development, personal goals and encourage a healthy organization
- You achieve results by strategically aligning direction, decisions, actions and evaluation with the vision, values and evidence
- You facilitate an environment of collaboration and cooperation
- You create connections, build partnerships and networks
- You demonstrate a commitment to the organizational vision, mission, values and service excellence
- You are a transformational thinker that encourages and supports innovation
- You have exceptional analytical skills that contribute to effective decision-making
- You are self-directed, courageous, and highly motivated with excellent interpersonal and effective communication skills

**What Skills Are Needed**
- Demonstrated experience in budget development and variance analysis
- Experience partnering with leaders over a range of portfolios across the organization, including clinical areas
- Planning and executing action plans that deliver results and motivate individuals for greater performance excellence
- Strong business acumen
- Values-based leadership and a proven track record for developing and sustaining healthy work environments and effective teams while leading in a performance-driven culture
- Lead and drive system transformation
- Develop self and others through teaching, coaching, mentoring and formal development processes
- Strong analytical skills that contribute to effective problem solving and decision-making

**What You Will Bring with You**
- Successful completion of a recognized Baccalaure