Vice President - Corporate Banking
Collins Recruitment Group
- Toronto, ON
- Permanent
- Full-time
- As the Program Finance Manager, you’ll be a navigator of financial success, tackling commercial challenges head-on in this fast past industry. This project-oriented role is tailor-made for a finance or commercial professional with a proven track record and keen interest in commercial finance, business partnering, complex financial and business case analysis.
- Drive financial strategies aligned with our commercial objectives while collaborating closely with the commercial and operational teams providing financial insights and solutions for ongoing customer oriented initiatives
- Act as a financial partner, offering guidance on pricing, promotions, and resolving customer negotiations
- Evaluate and optimize commercial deals to ensure maximum profitability while addressing open issues
- Prepare comprehensive financial reports for commercial and operational leaders, and executive management – highlighting areas requiring attention
- Provide leadership for the commercial budgeting and forecasting processes, ensuring accuracy and alignment with business goals
- Track performance against budgets and proactively address financial challenges hindering commercial success
- Provide financial visibility on newly awarded business by co-ordinating and assisting in the presentation of monthly financial updates to the Executive Team on the on-going financial status
- Help create and evaluate the business case for capital investment projects with a greater than $300 million budget
- Help facilitate and implement more efficient systems for the collection, storage, and analysis of cost elements related to new projects for Sales, Customer Quoting, and Program Management
- Provide financial assistance in the preparation of customer quote submissions - ensuring a logically defendable position for costing approach with the customer
- Provide ad hoc financial scenario analyses for the quoting function for new business opportunities
- University degree in Business (Finance Concentration)
- Professional designation (CFA, CPA, etc) is an asset but not required
- Strong communication skills (especially to a non-financial audience)
- A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in an analytically focused leadership role
- Demonstrated ability to effectively operate, communicate and gain trust in a geographically dispersed environment
- Experience within a decentralized environment (automotive/manufacturing experience is asset)
- Advanced knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel including but not limited to Pivot Tables, VLOOKUP's, sumifs, and basic macro
- An independent critical thinker who displays attention to detail (curiosity to dive into the numbers when needed)
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and time management skills with the ability to multi-task many projects
- Entrepreneurial mind-set with a strong interest in operations (think beyond the numbers)
- Excellent communication and presentation skills - able to convey complex topics in a concise and effective manner
- Proven self-starter, who requires limited supervision and direction, yet achieves tasks and overcomes problems and provides effective direction and analysis