Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis – 18-month contract

Job title: Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis – 18-month contract

Company: Vancity

Job description: Description :The Role: Manager, FP&AAs a Manager, FP&A, you serve a critical role in ensuring that Vancity achieves its long-term financial plan and financial sustainability. The mandate of the FP&A is to quantify and model capital, liquidity, expected credit losses and other balance sheet reserves. To democratize and demystify long-term strategic performance information, ensuring an optimal allocation of resources across the organization, and to support the coordination of initiatives, projects, and programs through effective long-term financial planning. This role directly supports the Director, Financial Planning & Analysis and leads a team in the long-range financial planning and capital and reserving processes for the Vancity group of companies.This is a contract role for 18 monthsA typical day would involve:

• Reporting and Analysis – Establishing an account manager relationship with senior leaders of the respective accountability areas, providing long-term financial reporting and analysis to enable informed decision making that align with our strategy.
• Financial Modeling – Establish and lead financial modeling and stress testing for the Vancity group of Companies, for example lead the Internal Capital Adequacy Process (ICAAP), Liquidity Stress Testing (LST), Expected Credit Loan Loss Allowance (ECL) and more. Support decision makers with financial analysis, what-if modeling, and by assisting with the development of business cases.
• Relationship Building – Acting in a concierge role to broker other services from the Finance division to senior leaders through identification of needs and opportunities.
• Team Development – developing the talent pool within your team
• Risk Management – integrating risk management processes to ensure the ongoing identification, monitoring, and assessment of risks plus implementing strategies to address key risks.

You are:

• Customer-centric – You define and measure success through the eyes of your internal customers and anticipate, understand and respond to their evolving needs.
• Results-oriented – You have a demonstrated ability to engage stakeholders in order to conduct diagnosis, analyze findings, generate appropriate options, and build deliverables all while securing their commitment to these solutions in a timely manner.
• Analytical – You seek to facilitate data-driven decision making, including “rolling up your sleeves” to collect data, research and build models.
• A problem solver – Your skills to diagnose challenges and issues, develop innovative business solutions, and assess risks and opportunities that may affect the business have been put to good use.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Commerce, Economics, or Business Administration from a recognized post-secondary institution (or equivalent)
• Chartered Professional Accountant (Canada) designation
• Experience requirements
• Minimum 2 Years of experience at the management level or higher
• Business acumen in the context of the financial industry.
• Communication and interpersonal skills to create clear understanding of expectations, address challenges and issues for the business unit; and represent the unit across the organization.
• Knowledge of the concepts, practices and techniques of the related field.
• Planning and coordination skills to develop plans, processes, methods and standards for a financial modeling.
• Problem solving and decision-making skills to diagnose challenges and issues; develop innovative business solutions; and to assess risks and opportunities that may affect long-term financial plans and modeling.
• Thorough understanding of data warehousing concepts, data storage technologies, business intelligence tools, and performance metrics.
• Strong technical accounting/finance skills including thorough knowledge of IFRS standards.
• Research and analytical skills to assess and recommend course of action on trends, and to identify risks and opportunities that may impact the long-term financial plans and models.

Pay Band: 10Posting Deadline: Posted Until FilledWe offer:

• We are the largest private-sector

in Canada and have been consistently recognized as one of the . * Our permanent employees qualify for attractive benefit packages that can be customized and changed each year to meet their evolving needs.

• New employees receive between three to four weeks of vacation allowance per calendar year, and the number of vacation days grows — to a maximum of six weeks per year — as their length of service increases. In addition, full-time, permanent staff may be able to purchase extra days of vacation through our flexible benefits package.
• In addition to the 10 statutory holidays in British Columbia, Vancity provides an additional three statutory holidays. We offer care days for periods of short-term personal illness or emergency family illness, plus opportunities to take unpaid leave for a variety of reasons.
• Our health care & dental benefits offer three levels of health care and dental coverage for you to select from. These benefits will also be effective immediately based on your hire date.
• We understand that retirement means different things to different people and at Vancity we will offer you a Defined pension plan that pays you a retirement income for life.

At Vancity we’re committed to creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace to help our people and communities thrive and prosper. Diversity in our workforce is integral so that we can truly represent, understand and respond to our community needs and deliver on our member experience. As part of this commitment we are taking action to learn more about our applicants and ask that you complete a short and anonymous that will influence the design and execution of Vancity’s overall DEI initiatives and programs, one of which aims to advance our commitment to become a financial force for change and build a fair world.​ Please click this hyperlink to complete the . Your responses are collected anonymously and will never be linked to your job application.Please note that all shortlisted candidates for this role will be required to complete a background check which includes employment verification, credit check, and a criminal record check. Vancity is an inclusive and equitable employer and actively seeks to advance racial equity, inclusion and belonging across the organization. Vancity offers required accommodations in all stages of the recruitment process. If you require an accommodation, please advise us, and we will work with you to meet your needs.

Expected salary:

Location: Vancouver, BC

Job date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 06:27:06 GMT

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