Finance Manager - Toronto, Canada - TD Bank

TD Bank

Verified Company

Toronto, Canada

3 weeks ago

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Sophia Lee

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Description

410515BR

Finance / Accounting

Toronto, ON

May 29, 2023

Company Overview

Department Overview

The Enterprise Project Finance Team provides end-to-end project financial support including development of business case financials, facilitating project planning and forecasting, providing insightful reporting and analysis, reviewing, and challenging large projects, maintaining relevant policies, methodology, tools, and training.

The team also provides thought leadership on enterprise-wide expense management and drives the agenda on project prioritization for the Bank with a goal to optimize the portfolio, ensuring investment in the right things at right time to drive shareholder value.

The team is focused on producing high-quality results within a positive work environment, with a strong emphasis on career development.

Job Description:

Reporting to the Senior Relationship Manager, Enterprise Project Finance, the role of Project Finance Manager/Controller is to provide financial support to the assigned project portfolio.

This includes providing end-to-end project financial support including:

Development of business case financials; monthly review of actual and forecasts against plan
Facilitating project planning activities and support of monthend reporting for the portfolio
Providing insightful reporting and analysis and reviewing and challenging projects

The role is responsible for full relationship management for the assigned segment inclusive of the Business, PDG and Segment Finance partners, and ensuring portfolio is effectively managed and compliant with bank's project governance and accounting policies.

Finance and Business Accountabilities:

Perform the role of financial controller to the Digital Strategy, Innovation and Payments (DSIP) portfolio.
Work with business sponsors, project managers and segment finance to develop and review business case financials for DSIP. The incumbent will provide financial expertise and oversight to ensure financial and accounting standards are followed and properly reflected in the business cases.
Manage financial aspects of project tracking and reporting for the assigned portfolio, ensuring alignment to monthly/annual fiscal budget. Assigned projects will generally be larger, complex (i.e., multidelivery, multiyear, crossfunded, splitfunded, etc.), and require close coordination with partners on costs / associated benefits.
Deliver financial / strategic analysis & insights for senior executive/management teams. This requires the consolidation of data from various financial sources and the ability to transform it into meaningful and actionable recommendations.
Provide input to Technology and Segment finance teams for monthly reporting, quarterly forecasting, and annual planning.
Participate in the annual portfolio planning and financial forecast cycles.
Develop strong relationship with key stakeholders (Segment Finance Partners, TS, Operations, Shared Services, PDG, Business Management, Governance, etc.)
Provide thought leadership and drive change by improving governance & processes and building strong relationships with key business partners.
Promote a positive work environment that encourages productivity, innovation, creativity, teamwork, and delivering meaningful advice which adds value to the overall decision making.

Requirements:

Professional Skills and Competencies Requirements:

Professional Skills:
Skilled in financial planning, analytics, and project costing / business cases.
Ability to prepare clear and concise analysis/reporting to supports decision making.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to lead, influence, negotiate and take decisions.
Strong relationship building skills. Enjoys working in a team environment fostering positive experiences.
Proactive selfstarter able to work independently in a relatively unstructured environment with the ability to prioritize deliverables appropriately while meeting deadlines.
Understanding of accounting guidelines and rules, including project accounting.

Competencies

Strong business acumen with a "valueadded" mindset ability to consolidate information into meaningful analysis, providing clear / concise analysis and recommended actions.
Demonstrated track record of leading process simplification / improvement which reduce inefficiencies and help deliver faster results
Organizational awareness and the ability to balance the viewpoints of Finance, Business Units and Project Management Offices.

Specific Educational and Professional Experience Requirements:

5+ years of Finance/Project Portfolio/ Management Reporting experience providing support to a project intensive organization
Experience performing project costing or business casing
Understanding of Agile, PDLC and Project Management practices would be an asset
Experience using Financial and Project Management systems (ie. CA PPM, Hyperion)
Accounting designation