Director, Integrated Finance Services
Location: Kingston, Ontario
Work arrangement: Hybrid, minimum three days on-site per week
Workweek: 35 hours
Compensation: $110,000- $127,000 plus Benefits
Altis Recruitment is partnering with a large, well-established post-secondary institution to recruit a Director, Integrated Finance Services.
This opportunity comes at a significant stage of organizational transformation. You’ll help bring Finance teams together, strengthen financial advice across multiple faculties or shared-service portfolios, and establish a more consistent, collaborative approach to service delivery.
Reporting to the Executive Director, you’ll lead Finance Managers and build trusted relationships with senior academic and administrative leaders. We’re looking for an experienced Finance leader who combines sound financial judgment with an empathetic leadership style and the ability to guide people through change.
What you’ll do
- Lead integrated Finance services across multiple portfolios, ensuring responsive, consistent and high-quality support.
- Coach and develop Finance Managers, establish clear accountabilities and support effective decision-making within their teams.
- Oversee annual and multi-year budgets, forecasts, financial models and reporting, identifying pressures, opportunities and sustainability risks.
- Advise senior leaders on financial performance, resource allocation and strategic priorities, translating complex information into actionable recommendations.
- Strengthen financial governance, internal controls, compliance and audit readiness.
- Establish service standards, performance measures and escalation processes to improve accountability and client service.
- Balance workloads and resources across teams, building resilience through cross-training, knowledge sharing and succession planning.
- Lead recruitment, performance management and professional development while helping employees build a shared team identity.
- Support process improvements, technology adoption and implementation of the new Finance service model.
What you bring
- A university degree in Accounting, Finance, Commerce, Business Administration or a related field, and a CPA designation or equivalent recognized professional accounting qualification.
- At least seven years of progressive Finance experience within a large, complex organization.
- Significant experience leading Finance professionals through Managers, team leads or senior staff, including coaching, recruitment and performance management.
- Broad expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, reporting, internal controls and financial risk management.
- Experience supporting multiple business units, departments or portfolios with competing priorities and diverse funding or revenue sources.
- A track record of implementing organizational change, improving processes, introducing financial systems or transforming service delivery.
- The ability to advise and influence senior leaders, communicate clearly with non-financial audiences and build consensus across stakeholder groups.
- A collaborative, empathetic approach to leadership and the confidence to navigate sensitive relationships through change.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Experience in higher education, healthcare, government, research or other complex, service-oriented organizations is an asset. Comparable private-sector experience is also welcome.
What’s offered
- A leadership role with the opportunity to shape Finance service delivery across a complex institution.
- A 35-hour workweek and hybrid working arrangement.
- Pension participation and comprehensive health, dental and vision benefits.
- Four weeks’ starting vacation, plus a paid holiday closure from December 25 through January 1.
- Employee tuition assistance, family tuition support and childcare support, subject to eligibility and plan terms*
- Potential relocation assistance, subject to approval.
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