Director, Corporate Financial Planning and Analysis

Are you a visionary FP&A leader and designated CPA/CFA looking for a high-impact mandate as the primary strategic co-pilot to executive finance leadership?
Are you energized by the challenge of inheriting a complex, spreadsheet-heavy environment and streamlining them into agile, driver-based planning engines and rolling forecasts?

Do you thrive in large-scale, asset-intensive environments where operational throughput, unit economics, capacity utilization, and capital velocity drive performance?
Can you lead a modern planning evolution, with autonomy, harnessing platforms like Workday Adaptive Planning and Power BI while maintaining rock-solid financial governance, and serve as the vital bridge between long-term strategic models and frontline operational partners?

This is a highly visible leadership role within a premier multi-billion dollar organization. The Director, Corporate FP&A sits at the center of enterprise capital allocation and operational strategy. As the direct right hand to the Executive Director, you will step into a fluid organizational structure to build, optimize, and scale corporate planning, forecasting, and business-partnering processes.

If you are an agile builder, an optimizer, and an articulate business advisor with a track record of tangible corporate FP&A transformation, this is the opportunity you’ve been waiting for!

Advantages
Why Join This Team?

- Executive Right-Hand & High Visibility: Serve as the strategic co-pilot to the Executive Director, acting as the primary liaison between long-term strategic financial modeling and embedded operational business partners, with frequent exposure to the executive leadership team.
- A True Builder’s Mandate: Inherit a fragmented spreadsheet landscape and enjoy a blank canvas to re-architect the entire planning lifecycle, streamlining 50+ models into automated, scalable planning workflows.
- Autonomous, Hands-Off Leadership: Work with a pragmatic, non-micromanaging leader who trusts the team, values open communication, and gives you complete autonomy to own, shape, and modernize the function.
- Modern Systems Evolution: Drive the evolution of the corporate planning stack, leveraging Oracle Financials, optimizing Workday Adaptive Planning, deploying Power BI executive dashboards, and testing predictive AI applications.

Exceptional Compensation & Total Rewards:

- Base salary between 160-200K
- Performance Bonus: 20% annual target
- Retirement & Pension: Up to 8% employer matching program
- Comprehensive Health & Wellness: 100% employer-sponsored health, dental, and vision coverage effective on Day One
- Industry-Leading Time Off: 4 weeks paid vacation + 5 personal days + Care Days
- Professional Growth: Full sponsorship for executive professional development, conferences, and annual CPA dues.

Responsibilities
What You Will Do & Lead:

- Model Rationalization & FP&A Architecture: Take full ownership of the corporate planning ecosystem; audit, streamline, and consolidate over 50 legacy Excel workbooks into - standardized, driver-based planning templates and rolling forecasts.
- Strategic Business Partnering: Partner across high-volume commercial, operational, and capital divisions, translating operational drivers and volume throughput metrics into actionable financial models and strategic advice.
- Systems Modernization & Data Integrity: Maximize the value of enterprise tools—anchoring planning in Workday Adaptive Planning, reporting through Oracle, building executive Power BI dashboards, and laying the groundwork for predictive analytics.
- Capital & Operating Budget Oversight: Guide multi-year budgeting, variance analysis, sensitivity analysis, and scenario modeling across complex multi-million-dollar operational budgets and major capital investment programs.
- Team Leadership & Culture: Lead, mentor, and elevate a high-potential corporate FP&A team, instilling a culture of evidence-based analysis, intellectual curiosity, and proactive business advisory.

Qualifications
Who You Are:

- Designation & Education: Active CPA and/or CFA designation is mandatory; an MBA or Master’s degree in Finance/Business is considered a strong competitive asset.
- Progressive Leadership Experience: 10+ years of progressive corporate finance and FP&A experience, with at least 7+ years successfully managing, mentoring, and scaling corporate finance teams.
- Proven Track Record of FP&A Transformation: Demonstrable, evidence-based achievements taking manual, Excel-heavy environments and successfully standing up structured EPM/planning frameworks (e.g., Workday Adaptive Planning, Anaplan, Prophix, or Hyperion).
- Operational Volume & Driver Expertise: Demonstrated experience modeling complex, asset-heavy, or high-throughput operations (logistics, freight, supply chain, utilities, healthcare, public infrastructure, or large-scale multi-entity corporate environments).
- Advanced Systems & Financial Modeling Acumen: Expert-level financial modeling and Excel skills (Power Query/Pivot), paired with hands-on experience in modern BI tools (Power BI, Tableau) and enterprise ERP platforms (Oracle, SAP).
- Executive Presence & High Autonomy: A poised, articulate communicator who simplifies complex financial narratives for executive audiences, challenges assumptions with data, and thrives with complete end-to-end accountability.

Summary
If you are an ambitious, transformational finance leader ready to leave your footprint on a premier, mission-critical Canadian organization, reach out today to start a confidential conversation.

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