Manager, Finance

Agricorp is looking for a **Finance Manager** to join our Corporate Services division. This opportunity is for a collaborative team-oriented individual who has advanced financial and accounting knowledge and ability, critical thinking skills and a passion for leadership.

**The Role**:
The Finance Manager, Operations leads a team of eight individuals and is accountable for daily cash operations, budgeting and forecasting, government remittances, payroll, accounting policy, financial systems administration, and projects. In this role, you will:

- Provide leadership, coaching and development to Finance team
- Plan and organize departmental workload and use management skills to effectively and efficiently prioritize and manage competing deliverables
- Ensure smooth day-to-day operations, resolving any issues impacting cashflow, customer accounts or system performance
- Lead in the preparation and support of quarterly and annual Budget and forecast process for a $40M administrative budget across 7 divisions
- Lead monthly variance analysis and follow up with divisional leads to inform senior management of root causes and future impacts
- Develop accounting policies and models through researching, understanding and implementing accounting standards
- Document and maintain procedures and accounting conclusions for all transactional processes in accordance with program agreements and legislation and accounting requirements
- Initiate change based on experience, expertise and knowledge of industry-leading practices and trends
- Provide analysis to management, as required, to facilitate accurate decision making
- Provide strategic advice and counsel to the Controller and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) on all finance-related matters
- Represent and/or lead finance efforts for ad-hoc initiatives and projects
- Establish and maintain strong working relationships with appropriate levels of personnel across Agricorp and its partners, including the Senior Management Team (SMT), management and non-management staff

**Job status**: Permanent
**Salary**: $99,994 - $117,640
**Work status**: Full time in office and hybrid work arrangements are available
**Location**: Must live in Ontario to perform this role

**Qualifications**:

- University degree in business, accounting, or equivalent
- CPA designation required
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in managing financial information and/or processes in a multi-faceted, complex environment
- Minimum 3-5 years’ supervisory and leadership experience providing direction, coaching, performance management and development
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Experience with Public Sector Accounting Board (PSAB) and auditing standards, an asset
- Experience with process and internal controls improvements, an asset
- Experience using Microsoft Dynamics GP and Power BI, an asset
- Advanced Microsoft Office skills

**Key Competencies**:

- **Technical/professional knowledge -** Understands and effectively applies accounting and finance concepts; researches and interprets accounting policies and legislation
- **Financial Systems, Processes and Technology -** Designing, implementing and maintaining financial management and reporting systems and complementary financial and administrative business processes, to support the effective and judicious use of financial resources
- **Financial Budgeting, Planning & Reporting -** Providing advice and services on financial planning, budgeting, reporting and coding to ensure the optimal allocation of financial resources to objectives
- **Leading Teams -** Leads and support the performance of a team towards achieving excellent results, monitors progress, quality of work, sets clear expectations and accountabilities
- **Critical judgement, decision making and problem solving -** Exercises sound judgment in new and standard situations in the absence of specific guidelines and precedents, simplifies complex information and focuses on crucial details, develops solutions to a problem
- **Creativity and innovation -** Demonstrates curiosity, digging for information below the surface, questions conventional methodologies and creates new solutions or approaches to ongoing challenges, identifies and deals with situations and issues proactively and persistently
- **Communication -** Adapts content, style and medium of communication to suit the audience, culture and level of understanding; communicates with honesty and supports messages with facts and information
- **Initiative -** Identifies and deals with situations and issues proactively and persistently, seizing opportunities that arise
- **Networking & Relationship Building -** Establishes, sustains and fosters professional contacts to build, enhance and connect networks for work progress

**Background**:
**Agricorp, an agency of the government of Ontario.**

Agricorp delivers government programs. These programs help protect the livelihood of over 47,000 Ontario farmers against the many risks fa