Senior Advisor

Job Description

Position: Senior Financial Advisor 

Dept: Financial Planning & Analysis

Posting ID: 2024

Status: Temporary Full Time - approximately 12 months (April 15, 2025 – April 15, 2026)

Role Level: Professional Group - PG11 $46.39 to $57.98

Site: Queensway Health Centre

Hours of Work/Shift: Monday to Friday 37.5 hours/ week (business hours)

Posted: March 7, 2025

Internal Deadline: Open until filled

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is one of the largest community-based acute care facilities in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital and the Queensway Health Centre, Trillium Health Partners serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto and surrounding communities and is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.

Our Mission:     A New Kind of Health Care for a Healthier Community

Our Values:       Compassion, Excellence, Courage

Our Goals: Quality, Access, Sustainability

Our Enablers:    People, Education, Innovation, Research

Position Summary:

Reporting to the Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis, the Senior Financial Advisor will provide and lead financial support for large, complex program portfolios spanning diverse operating and business environments with varying funding models, regional programs, and/or Multi-sector Ministry portfolios. The Senior Financial Advisor will also manage financial processes or projects for their program or division collaborating with associated team members and other enabling services to provide senior leaders subject matter expertise and financial and business related advice.

This position facilitates, coordinates, and leads the integration and interpretation of financial and clinical information to enable effective, efficient program business management and provides program & divisional support to clients by understanding their needs, interpreting/analyzing data, confidently making recommendations and linking financial /operational priorities using informational and people resources, problem solving, knowledge of standards and informative communication. As a pro-active business partner, the Senior Financial Advisor works with Senior Management, Program Directors, Managers, Physicians and other enabling team members to understand their operations and business requirements to facilitate the coordination of the annual operating and capital budget, completing forecasts, analyzing variances and their drivers, and helping the development of strategic action plans while also managing external reporting requirements. The Senior Financial Advisor is also expected to communicate with confidence and present their findings and recommendations to various leaders in the organization, and provide guidance to and promote teamwork with financial advisors.

Key Qualifications:

• Completion of a professional designation program (CPA) with a minimum 5 years of related experience or equivalent progressive experience
• Strong knowledge of accounting standards
• MIS Certification from OHA preferred
• Experience developing annual budgets and linking into program operating and strategic plans
• Experience analyzing business performance and developing business cases
• Strong leadership skills including communication, interpersonal, and relationship building skills in a complex, multi-stakeholder environment
• Must be able to function autonomously and independently in a fast-paced and diverse operational environment while managing multiple priorities
• Ability to proactively problem solve and network with stakeholders to find solutions
• Experience with MOH Reporting, MIS Guidelines, and OCDM preferred
• Strong Excel (w/ pivot tables), Word & Powerpoint experience

Responsibilities:

• Build partnerships to lead other financial advisors and enabling team members (Decision Support, Project Mgmt, HR, etc.) within a large division to build comprehensive and standardized reporting and provide summarized financial planning information & advice to senior leaders
• Lead multi-sector ministry reporting & audit processes spanning multiple programs
• Collaborating with VPs, Directors, Managers and other enabling departments on the development of annual operating budgets within funding constraints, identification of program efficiencies and implementation of strategic plan priorities, developing business cases and briefing notes related to projects & funding advocacy
• Educating leaders on business/financial processes and accountabilities
• Engaging and building strong relationships with the programs to fully understand their processes, operations, funding models, and resourcing needs
• Using sound business judgement, provide direction and signficant input into program's innovative ideas while championing and supporting new change initiatives by making recommendations on financial and business risk mitigation and opportunities on the deliverables
• Ensuring alignment on program decision making to program, division and organization's strategies highlighting impacts that span cross-program or organization wide
• Perform reviews, summarize concisely, and present operational results to enable the identification and interpretation of significant variances and how these may relate to service volumes and effectively presenting this information in meetings while facilitating the development of action plans to ensure compliance and alignment with program funding
• Assist in month end & year end revenue recognition, accruals and reconciliations, monthly reporting and updating the reporting structures
• Work with various departments to gather information, summarize and track expenses related to specific Ministry or externally funded projects

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 Trillium Health Partners' (THP) is an equal opportunity employer who values the importance of antiracism work and is committed to integrating antiracism, diversity, equity and inclusion best practices throughout THP operations, policies and culture. Therefore, we ask that even if you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown that candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage all applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code based on race, gender identity or expression, sex, sexual orientation, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nations, Métis or Inuk/Inuit person to consider this opportunity.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities.  If selected to participate in the recruitment and selection process, please inform Human Resources of the nature of any accommodation(s) that you may require in respect of any materials or processes used to ensure your equal participation.

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Trillium Health Partners is identified under the French Language Services Act.

We thank all those who apply but only those selected for further consideration will be contacted.