Senior Manager- Finance Business Partner

About Us

Talent is our World.

At AMS, we believe in nurturing talent and fostering a culture where passion for success thrives. As part of our commitment to your growth and development, we encourage you to explore opportunities available within our organization. Your talent is our greatest asset, and we're dedicated to providing avenues for you to reach its fullest potential. We do so by providing the environment, resources, networks, and career experiences essential for your progress.

Take the next step in your career journey and discover our exciting opportunities.

The Role

The Senior Manager - Finance Business Partner is responsible for providing strategic financial insights and support to business units, ensuring alignment with the organization's financial goals and objectives. This role is crucial in driving financial performance, optimizing resource allocation, and supporting decision-making processes. The Senior Manager - Finance Business Partner collaborates closely with other senior leaders to integrate financial strategies into business operations.

This is a hybrid position and will require the individual to work in the AMS office in Toronto Downtown 1 day a week.

Key Accountabilities

Financial Planning

• Support the quarterly Forecasting and Annual Budgeting process
• Support Operations input into financial system and challenge assumptions and ensuring accuracy.
• Support Head of Finance (Americas) to compile forecast reports, analysis for presentation to leadership.

Month-end support

• Coordinate with Management Accountants and Operations during month-end to understand primary drivers of the performance.
• Work with Management Accountants to book necessary accruals to ensure accuracy of results.
• May be assigned Management Accounting responsibilities over some accounts. Support Head of Finance, Americas with business performance review

Project and Account Support

• Provide financial oversight and analysis over Project portfolio and other smaller accounts by working with Operational Leads to manage and track performance of the accounts from post-sales handoff to execution.
• Applicant should have a strong commercial awareness to provide financial analysis support to new accounts especially during mobilization by checking sales and pricing assumptions versus actual deployment metrics.
• Deep dive into challenged accounts to understand performance drivers, risk and recommend mitigations.
• Work with Management Accountants to analyze implementation costs to track to budget and communicate to key stakeholders.
• Support other responsibilities and ad hoc requests as may be assigned by Head of Finance (FP&A), Americas

Skills & Experience

• Minimum 6 years' experience in Accounting is a must have
• Experience in Team management, Forecasting, Budgeting and Strategy is a must have
• CPA degree is required
• Bachelor's degree in accounting -strong preferred
• Advanced MS Excel skills, Power point, and Power BI
• Strong background in finance systems
• Ability to take initiative and foster relationships with different areas of AMS
• Comfortable with KPI Reporting and Presenting to Stakeholders
• Ability to effectively collaborate with operations and other key players in a matrix organization.
• Ability to analyze trends and make deductions/insights from them - especially in the Service Industry
• Ability to show resilience and manage priorities.
• Excellent communication skills
• Strong financial modeling skills
• Strong Attention to detail

Behavioral Skills:

• Critical Thinking – proficiency level 4
• Effective Communication – proficiency level 4
• Stakeholder Partnering – proficiency level 3
• Issue Resolution – proficiency level 4
• Enterprise Leadership – proficiency level 4
• Change Management – proficiency level 3
• Agility - proficiency level 4

Technical Skills:

• Financial Analysis – proficiency level 4
• Budget Management – proficiency level 4
• Financial Reporting – proficiency level 4
• Data Analysis – proficiency level 3
• Financial Controls – proficiency level 4
• Commercial Awareness – proficiency level 4

Other

What you'll get in return:

Here at AMS, you have the opportunity to work on projects that integrate across our practice areas, supporting and innovating delivery for our clients. You'll be part of a team with global capabilities and setting a new direction for us in terms of how we creatively solve our clients' most pressing talent-related challenges. You can innovate, disrupt and influence with organizations that want to transform their operations and win the war for talent.

What we offer:

AMS offers you career opportunities in every direction you want to explore. We want to help you achieve whatever it is you aspire to – and we'll give you the flexibility to allow you to give just as much attention to what's important to you outside of work.

• Full training and support
• Stretching, challenging work
• A vibrant, diverse, and collaborative culture
• Flexible working – home/hybrid/in-office working available
• A competitive reward and benefits package
  • The opportunity to embark on a recruitment career with one of the world's leading recruitment companies
• Employee Resource Groups, including LGBTQ+ Allies, Hispanic, Veterans, Black Employee Network, Women's groups, and more

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class. Please let us know of any reasonable adjustments or accommodations you require during the recruitment process by emailing our team