Avp Finance, Cards - Toronto, Canada - TD Bank

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Department Overview

POSITION TITLE
Associate Vice President, Finance, Cards & Personal Lending

Canadian Personal Bank***The Associate Vice President, Finance supporting Credit Cards and Personal Lending Business reports to the Vice President, Finance, Canadian Personal Bank and is responsible for leading a dedicated team in Finance professionals responsible for Finance measurement, analysis, and decision support.
Associate Vice Presidents (AVP) at TD Bank Financial Group are strategic, responsible, and accountable members of the Bank's leadership team. Collectively, these roles contribute significantly to the overall reputation of TD as an excellent investment, a highly customer focused organization, a top employer, and an exemplary corporate citizen. Executives set the ethical, organizational and performance standard for the teams they lead and exemplify how an effective performance and development culture functions day to day. An AVP is expected to guide his/her team, collaborating as appropriate with TD partners, to deliver superior results in both the short and long term.
In doing so, they are expected to role model TD's leadership profile by making an impact, building for the future, inspiring the will to win, working effectively in teams, living transparency, showing excellent judgment, and demonstrating unwavering integrity

AVP roles therefore require:

People leadership knowing how to lead high performing teams, communicating well, and taking the time to coach and develop others.
Organizational awareness knowing how to engage the organization to get things done, deal with complex change, and enhance TD's brand.
Business acumen understanding his/her business from the ground up and the key levers that will deliver superior results.
Strategic insight having a compelling vision and engaging others in achieving it, providing thought leadership, and constantly striving to find new ways to do things better.

POSITION SPECIFIC ACCOUNTABILITIES - AVP, Finance, Card & Personal Lending**This role provides senior financial and operational thought leadership to the Businesses. In addition to the business partners, the team works closely with a range of partners including ESDS, Segment Finance, Chief Accountant's department and Financial Operations. Reporting to the AVP, Finance is a team of finance professionals.

Finance and Business Leadership Accountabilities:

The AVP performs the role of business advisor while providing constructive and effective challenge to multiple initiatives in Unsecured Lending.

The AVP works closely with the SVP, Unsecured lending as well as their executive and leadership teams.

The role includes oversight of:

Financial planning, reporting, and forecasting and presenting results to each businesses' Executive leadership team on a regular basis (this includes reporting at all business levels from individual cost center owners to VP as well as the SVP)
Business advisory and ad hoc support
Proactively identify financial opportunities, risks, and solutions
Review of financial benefit of various initiatives, consulting and expense approval and accounting policy advice
Oversee the preparation of monthly and quarterly financial results
Interlocking with other Segment Finance teams with regards to expenses, including working closely with corporate segment finance teams
Telling the financial story, linking the strategic priorities and accomplishments of the group while providing value add advice to gain financial efficiencies while optimizing group effectiveness
Provide direction on allocation methodology and insights on impacts to Finance and Business segments
Validation and measurement of key financial metric as well as overseeing productivity measurement and value attribution across the portfolio
Oversee financial reporting signoff and engaging in appropriate audit engagements

- internal as well as external

Job Requirements

Specific Educational Requirements / Accreditations

CA/CMA/CGA/MBA/CFA

Other Qualifications / Skills / Experience

A finance executive / top level professional with broad range of financial management and advisory experience with extensive understanding of the business and key financial drivers
Possess advance level of expertise and financial acumen to provide insight on strategy development and be a strategic partner to the business on a broad range of financial matters
Balanced approach, ability to stay resilient under pressure
People leadership is key element to this role both the ability to effectively work in teams across the bank with multiple stakeholders, influence and align others
Proven ability to manage a diverse group of professionals is critical to success in this role
Demonstrated time management and organizational skills to meet tight deadlines as well as flexibi