Title: Senior Director Finance, Humanitarian Services

Employee Working Location: Remote

Employment Status: Permanent Full-time

The Canadian Red Cross (Red Cross) - an inspirational not for profit organization, helps people and communities in Canada and around the world in times of need and supports them in strengthening their resilience. As a Canada's Best Employers 2024, we are committed to having an accessible, diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free work environment.

In this role, you will:

• Oversee the full spectrum of financial operations for Humanitarian Services, including accounting, financial reporting, financial analysis, working capital management, and compliance.
• Maintain and continuously improve an effective FP&A capability to provide the Humanitarian Services' senior leadership with appropriate information and analytical tools for establishing goals and measuring performance
• Ensure effective people management processes, build/maintain high performing teams and oversee complex workforce relations issues.
• With proven leadership skills, effectively engage and guide the finance team to drive results and meet targets as defined by operating and strategic business plans.
• Engage in operational planning, development of annual budgets and work within Humanitarian Services to provide professional finance and budgetary support and advice.
• Lead the Humanitarian Services financial planning process, including annual budgeting and forecasting in collaboration with business units and senior leadership
• Monitor and analyze financial performance, identify trends, risks, and opportunities, and provide strategic recommendations to support financial sustainability and organizational effectiveness.
• Supports senior management with financial review and analysis, modeling, forecasting, performance trend analysis, and tracking of key financial drivers including ratios and benchmarks analysis.
• Ensures development and timely dissemination of financial reports and analysis to Program senior management and other stakeholders as required.
• Ensures legislative and contractual compliance for all financial reporting and activity.

What we are looking for

• A university degree in Finance, Business Administration or a related field and completion of a professional accounting designation (CPA)
• Minimum of 10 years of job-related experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of proven supervisory/management experience.
• Strong knowledge of accounting theory, techniques, and policies is required
• S t rong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with senior management both internal to the organization and external.
• Demonstrated computer skills of MS Office applications including Outlook, Word, Excel (Advanced) and PowerPoint.
• Professionalism and interpersonal skills to work collaboratively within a team and build positive relationships.
• Attention to detail, as well as strong analytical skills.
• Superior organization and time management skills.
• Fluency in English is required, French is an asset.

Working Conditions :

• All teams contributing to emergency response efforts directly or indirectly.
• All CRC roles are required to adapt work and priorities to support emergency response efforts, be present in person as required to support service delivery and deploy to emergency responses when appropriate and/or required (personnel availability and request for exceptions will be discussed with line management).
• For CRC roles that are assigned a function in the Emergency Relief operational structure (in field and virtual), personnel may be required to be part of an on-call roster and be available for scheduled on-call work.
• As we work with and support people (managers, colleagues, beneficiaries/customers, volunteers, donors and external partners) and communities in Canada and around the world, applicants whose first language is not English may be required to perform the responsibilities of the role in English.
• Eligibility to work in Canada: At this time, we welcome applications from candidates eligible to work in Canada. If you are not a citizen or permanent resident of Canada, we encourage you to carefully review your visa to find out whether you are eligible to work in the job you are considering applying for. Refer to our FAQ for more information.
• If you are selected for this role, you will be required to complete a successful pre-employment screening process which includes a satisfactory Enhanced Police Information Check (E-PIC).

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