Manager, Financial Operations

Summary

The Position

Plan International Canada is seeking a high performing Manager Financial Operations who will play a significant operational role in managing key processes in the Finance team ensuring internal controls are in place to adequately safeguard the companys assets and financial health. Reporting directly to the Director Procurement & Financial Services you will be a qualified accountant with several years of both accounting and finance experience.

You will manage and help develop the team responsible for the treasury banking and procurement of the organization.

What success looks like

• Management support for all treasury and operational banking matters of the organization including cash and working capital and liquidity management acting as the operational contact with external stakeholders (banking relationships etc).
• Manage all payment processing with the team including Corporate Credit Cards ensuring internal controls are robust and adhered to.
• Provide support to the organizations procurement portfolio of approximately $40M annually supporting where required on external contracting including RFPs business case analysis due diligence vendor management and risk management/compliance.
• Provide people leadership and mentoring to a team of junior accounting staff.
• Responsible for ensuring business unit compliance with the organizations Procurement Policy and guidelines including travel and expense reimbursement. Support training and communication to achieve business compliance.
• Be an expert support and admin user of our Emburse Invoice Purchase Order and Expense management tools. Providing support training and guidance to our team as well as wider business with a focus on problem solving and process enhancement in using the tools.
• Assess and monitor current financial operations and related internal control systems recommending best practice improvements as needed.
• Support the Director in all insurance matters including annual renewals with both our insurance brokers and the global team.

As our ideal candidate you will have:

This role requires an ambitious qualified accountant with a desire to develop at a people leadership level. Suitable candidates will be collaborative agile progressive inclusive and empowering. The incumbent is expected to be an energetic hands-on individual who understands and embraces well-defined processes policies procedures standards and metrics. The ideal candidate will have a high propensity for problem solving and meet stringent reporting deadlines. The identified candidate will lead from a Diversity Equity and Inclusion value set and will be a strong clear communicator. Knowledge of technology operations risk management and compliance are pluses.

• A recognized accounting designation
• 2-4 years of experience in finance management roles
• Experience in NGO organizations Multi-National Organizations and Not for Profit Accounting is desirable
• Strong people management and interpersonal skills
• Sound technical accounting abilities
• Flexible self-motivated proactive and strong communication and presentation skills
• Proven self-starter with demonstrated organizational analytical and multitasking skills
• Focus on customer experience
• An ability to prioritize projects
• Ability to work with many/diverse individuals at various levels and departments within Plan Canada and also with external stakeholders
• Strong excel skills
• Experience with financial software (Great Plains is desirable) and Procurement and Expense Management software