Director of Finance, FP&A
- Burlington, ON, Canada
Full-time
Applications open in a new tab.
Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
About The Role
This position will lead core FP&A activities while supporting cash management, financing, and project-level financial analysis. The successful candidate will bring a commercial mindset, strong financial modelling capabilities, and the ability to turn complex financial information into practical recommendations.The role will also have an opportunity to strengthen and evolve the organization's financial planning and reporting processes as the business continues to grow.
What You'll Do
- Lead the annual budgeting process and coordinate ongoing financial planning activities
- Own regular forecasting and reforecasting, ensuring leadership has a clear view of expected financial performance
- Develop financial models and forward-looking analysis to support business planning and decision-making
- Analyze budget-to-actual results, identify meaningful variances, and communicate key drivers to leadership
- Monitor financial trends, risks, opportunities, and performance indicators
- Prepare management reporting, analysis, and presentations for senior leadership and ownership
- Support cash flow forecasting, liquidity planning, and day-to-day treasury activities
- Assist with banking relationships, financing requirements, and ongoing lender reporting
- Prepare financial analysis and supporting information for debt financing and banking partners
- Evaluate project-level financial performance, including costs, profitability, cash requirements, and projected returns
- Support project accounting and finance activities as required
- Provide financial insights to inform operational, investment, and strategic decisions
- Identify opportunities to improve FP&A, reporting, forecasting, and financial planning processes
- Senior Manager or Director-level experience in finance, FP&A, corporate finance, or a related discipline
- Significant experience leading budgeting, forecasting, and financial planning processes
- Strong financial modelling and analytical capabilities
- Experience with treasury, cash flow forecasting, and liquidity management
- Exposure to bank financing, debt facilities, and lender relationships
- Strong understanding of financial performance analysis and variance reporting
- Experience supporting project-based, capital-intensive, or operationally complex businesses is an asset
- Ability to confidently present financial information and recommendations to senior leadership
- Strong commercial and operational judgment, with an ability to connect financial results to business performance
- Comfortable operating in a hands-on environment rather than focusing exclusively on high-level strategy
- CPA designation is an asset, although strong FP&A and corporate finance experience will be highly valued
- Adaptable and comfortable working within an evolving organizational structure
This is an opportunity to take on a visible finance leadership role within a growing organization where your analysis can directly influence business decisions. You'll have meaningful exposure to senior leadership, ownership, financing activities, and project performance while helping build more effective financial planning and reporting practices.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead budgeting, forecasting, financial modeling, and performance analysis, and provide management reporting and recommendations to senior leadership. Support cash management, treasury, financing, lender reporting, and project-level financial analysis while improving planning and reporting processes.
Requirements
Requires senior manager- or director-level experience in finance, FP&A, corporate finance, or a related field, with substantial experience leading budgeting and forecasting. Candidates should have strong modeling and analytical skills, treasury and financing exposure, and the ability to communicate commercial insights; project-based business experience is an asset, and a CPA designation is also an asset.
Skills
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Variance Analysis
- Management Reporting
- Cash Flow Forecasting
- Treasury
- Liquidity Management
- Debt Financing
- Banking Relationships
- Project Financial Analysis
- Financial Performance Analysis
- Commercial Judgment
- Leadership Communication
- Process Improvement
Visa sponsorship
Not detected in the job text
Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Financial Planning and Analysis
- Annual Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Reforecasting
- Financial Modeling
- Budget-to-Actual Analysis
- Variance Reporting
- Management Reporting
- Cash Flow Forecasting
- Liquidity Planning
- Treasury
- Banking Relationships
- Debt Financing
- Lender Reporting
- Project Accounting
- Project Profitability
- Financial Performance Indicators
- Business Decision Support
- Financial Planning Processes
- CPA