Manager, Finance Business Partner (Ottawa, ON, CA)

Job Requisition Id: 200668 
Business Function: Finance 
Primary City: Ottawa 
Province:  Ontario 
Employment Type: Full-Time 
Employment Status:  Permanent 
Language Requirement: English Essential 
Employee Class and Level: CPMGA02 
Number of Vacancies 1 
Job Closing Date (YYYY-MM-DD): 2026-07-28

An eligibility list to be created for a period of twelve (12) months.

Job Description

Reporting to the Director, Finance Business Partner, the Manager Finance Business Partner plays a key role with business owners by delivering actionable business insights through deep understanding of the business environment and identifying key connections between the business and financial performance, providing advice to improve business outcomes through a strategic lens. The Manager acts as a change agent partnering with business owners to identify risks and opportunities in the business environment and develop targets, controls, and initiatives to mitigate and/or capitalize on them. The Manager enables execution of corporate strategies by supporting cross-functional clients, providing financial advice through all stages of planning, implementation, and monitoring. 

Job Responsibilities

Below are the main job requirements and responsibilities for the Manager, Finance Business Partner.

1. Facilitates activities to support business strategy, core business functions, and operation and investment strategic plans and forecasts. Promotes strategic financial decision making based on data driven business insights, financial modelling, and integration with key stakeholders.

2. Acts as a trusted advisor to client groups, assessing business problems, gathering and analyzing information, and providing future-oriented advice, business intelligence, and guidance, based on subject-matter expertise.

3. Understands key financial, operational, and business drivers of performance and integrates these into business insights and financial models for analysis and forecasting. Supports the implementation of financial models from the Finance Data Analytics & Reporting team and the Finance Investment and Capital Management team and provides continuous feedback, business insights and input to satisfy the needs of clients and fulfill fiduciary responsibilities. 

4. Conducts financial evaluations and assessments of new business and/or customer opportunities and applies standard costs impact analysis and modeling techniques to evaluate and project benefits and risks. Develops new solutions, generates process improvements, and seeks out new customers to create revenue generation and cost containment.

Job Responsibilities (continued)

5. Promotes consistent implementation and use of corporate financial policies, processes, guidelines, and tools with clients to maintain integrity, safeguard corporate assets, ensure consistency with sound financial management principles and regulations, and mitigate risk.

6. Actively seeks new opportunities to improve the bottom line through business reviews, market analysis, and market trends, and is adept at keeping the appropriate focus for business partners. 

7. Identifies internal control discrepancies, risks, and opportunities, and supports the business partners with identifying action plans that improve financial performance.

8. Initiates, leads, and presents data and recommendations at regular performance reviews discussing monthly results with business owners, managers, and members of multi-disciplinary teams. 

Qualifications

Education

• Completed post-secondary education in a related field, commerce, finance, economics, accounting, business administration.

• Relevant professional designation (CPA, (CA, CMA) or CGA) and/or MBA is an asset.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years of relevant functional experience.

• One or more years of experience in a unionized environment is an asset.

Other Candidate Requirements

• A strong relationship builder with personal credibility and high impact communication and presentation skills, with extensive experience with senior executive interaction.

• A self-starter with high business acumen, critical thinking and problem-solving skills and desire to learn/grow and contribute value; comfortable with risk and working with ambiguity.

• Dynamic individual, adaptable to change, team oriented, and high emotional intelligence.

• Strong oral and written communication skills.

Other Information

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