Director, Financial Planning and Analysis

The Royal Canadian Mint (the Mint) is hiring a Director, Financial Planning and Analysis (FP&A) who can thrive in a dynamic and inclusive environment.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Finance and Chief Accountant, this strategic leadership role partners with business leaders across the organization to drive financial performance, support corporate objectives, and deliver actionable insights that enable informed decision-making.

The Director, FP&A leads the corporate planning, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting processes while ensuring timely, accurate, and meaningful financial analysis. Leading a team of FP&A professionals, you will strengthen reporting capabilities, enhance financial processes, and implement best practices that support operational excellence and long-term profitability. As a senior leader, you will influence decision-making, build strong partnerships, and help drive the Mint’s strategic priorities.

Your Responsibilities:

• Lead the FP&A department (including the Management Reporting team and the Business Partner support team) by providing leadership and oversight for corporate financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, management reporting, and strategic business analysis.
• Responsible for setting clear direction, driving accountability, and developing team capability to support planning, forecasting, performance reporting, variance analysis, and executive decision-making.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of the Mint’s Strategic Corporate plan, including developing and reporting on financial and operational KPIs focused on value drivers; Responsible for the development and preparation of the Mint’s detailed financial planning models including forecasts, budgets, projections, financial support for business cases and project prioritization used in the annual Corporate Plan, and business line support model.
• Create and sustain the FP&A function’s value to the organization by delivering of meaningful, decision enabling executive reporting packages that clearly articulate key business drivers, risks, opportunities and recommended action plans.
• Partner with executives, business partners, project teams, and other key stakeholders to provide data driven analysis, strategic financial advice, business case support, and insights that support profitability, financial targets, and strategic objectives.
• Support the executive team and key stakeholders with strategic projects, system and process improvements, and ad hoc analysis as required, including enhancements to corporate performance management and decision-support capabilities.
• Other responsibilities as assigned, including projects and initiatives to ensure FP&A requirements are aligned to environmental changes.

This position offers a hybrid work arrangement, requiring on-site presence at our Ottawa location three to five days per week, depending on meeting requirements and other activities.

This selection process may also qualify you for other positions with similar requirements and qualifications.

Qualifications:

Languages Requirements:

Proficiency in both official languages (English / French) is required at the time of hire.If no qualified candidate fully meets the required levels, other candidate language profiles may be considered in accordance with the Mint’s Staffing Policy. The linguistic profile for this position is:

Education & Designation:

• University degree in related area with a CPA designation and/or MBA

Experience:

• Minimum of 10 years of progressive related business experience
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive management experience leading teams
• Excellent financial planning and business analysis experience advising management on operational excellence/performance improvement initiatives taking companies to new levels of performance using data-driven business recommendations

Additional Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success leading high performance teams
• Demonstrated success with strategic planning and assisting others in transforming a strategic vision into an operational model
• Strong business acumen, consulting and change management skills.
• Strong ability to examine, develop, and recommend financial and technology systems, policies and procedures
• Proven ability to work on and manage multiple projects within tight timelines
• Ability to think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative data
• Action Oriented - present ideas and directions that lead others to action and appropriate outcomes
• Proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and working hands-on with accounting, business intelligence and reporting systems

Why the Mint?

At the Mint, you will collaborate with a diverse group of people and be a part of an iconic Canadian organization. Your safety and wellbeing are our top priority. We offer outstanding pay and total rewards for you and your family and you will be supported to continuously learn throughout your career.

The Mint is committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We value diversity and aim to provide an inclusive, barrier-free recruitment, selection and onboarding process to ensure that each candidate is treated respectfully.In accordance with the Employment Equity Act, you are invited to voluntarily self-identify with one or more of the four employment equity groups (women, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities) by sending your application to the confidential email,View email address on click.appcast.io that is accessed only by the Human Resources section.

If you need accommodation at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know. We are committed to being an inclusive employer. For a confidential inquiry, simply email us directly View email address on click.appcast.io to make arrangements.

What to Expect

In order to be considered for an interview, please clearly demonstrate on your application how you meet the education and experience qualifications. The additional qualifications may be assessed through interviews, exams, reference checks, etc. If successful, you will be required to complete a background check facilitated by the Mint in order to obtain a security clearance.

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