Associate, Finance Business Partner

**Job Requisition ID**: 9403

**Position Status**: Temporary Full Time

**Position Type**:Hybrid

**Office Location**:Ottawa (ON); Calgary (AB); Halifax (NS); Montreal (QC)

**Travel Requirement**: Limited

**Language Designation**: English Essential

**Language Skill Levels (Read/Write/Speak)**: ZZZ

**Salary**: Our salaries generally range from $ 68974.7 to $ 86218.38 and are based on qualifications and experience.

About CMHC

At CMHC, the work you do and the work we do together matters. We come to work every day with a common purpose: to realize a future where everyone in Canada has a home that they can afford and meets their needs.

Our people are second to none. We lean in with courage, band together as a community and try new things to make a lasting impact on housing from coast to coast to coast.

Join us and be part of a team that's committed to making a real difference and be part of something meaningful.

What’s in it for you

We’ve got the purpose, the people and the perks you need for a fulfilling career. Here’s what you get when you’re a permanent employee:

- 5 weeks of vacation
- Annual individual performance bonus
- Defined benefit pension plan
- Comprehensive group insurance plan to support your well-being from day one
- Support in your personal and professional growth with training, mentorship and more - because when you thrive, we thrive
- An inclusive workplace culture and environment with Employee Resource Groups and more
- A hybrid work model that lets you balance working from home and nurturing in-person connections by coming into your region’s office at a minimum of 4 times a month.

About the role

Join the Corporate Services Team in the Associate, Finance Business Partner position. You will act as a business partner, helping clients establish sound financial processes that provide business insights for better financial decisions. You will proactively develop an in-depth understanding of the business operations through discussion and analysis, distilling financial needs and gaining trust as a business partner. You will also conduct finance process modelling activities and develop, implement, interpret and report on performance measures.

**What you’ll do**:

- Act as a business partner, maintaining meaningful relationships with client and relevant stakeholders to gain an understanding of the business and environment, in order to accomplish finance tasks, and to support business decisions.
- Provide guidance on developing and executing forecasting processes that yield meaningful, timely and detailed forecasts using appropriate forecasting techniques, assumptions and tools; solutions often require innovative thinking and creative problem solving.
- Identify non-value-added processes and improvement opportunities related to costing, risk management, oversight, analysis, managing reporting, funding, budgeting, controls, and financial model inputs and outputs.
- Contribute to initiatives, which monitor the effectiveness of processes and systems, and highlights areas where changes may be required.
- Support the development and championing of financial implications of business strategies and policies by identifying emerging issues, trends and opportunities, researching and analyzing their implications and recommending solutions.
- Conduct in-depth and proactive analysis of FTE consumption activities, forecast accuracy, variances between actual (current and prior year), and variance from planned amounts. Contribute to monitoring FTE budgets against corporate appropriations and operating budgets.
- Distill and formulate thoughtful and supported financial recommendations based on the results of proactive financial analysis, identified areas of risk exposure, and available opportunities for improvement.
- Contribute to the development, implementation, standardization, analysis and monitoring financial performance indicators, measures and targets to ensure clients are meeting stakeholder expectations and achieving strategic objectives from a financial perspective.
- Applie an understanding of business performance measures and prepares management reports containing quantitative and qualitative analysis on operational and strategic metrics, key expense performance indicators, benchmark comparisons and other variables.

**What you should have**:

- Undergraduate degree in accounting, finance, business administration, economics or commerce.
- Minimum of three years in finance, business analysis and strategy support.
- Knowledge of relevant financial, legislative and regulatory environments.
- Understanding of financial statements and general accounting principles.
- Excellent organizational skills to manage several ongoing and competing projects.
- Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills.
- Excellent ability to gather and analyze information, synthesize key elements and summarize recommendations.

**It would be great if you also had**:

- MBA or professional designa