Vice President, Finance
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- Regina, SK
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Provide strategic financial leadership and advice to the Executive Vice President, Investment and Operations and leadership team, supporting enterprise decision-making and long-term financial sustainability.
- Oversee all financial operations including accounting, budgeting, forecasting, cash management, financial systems, and financial statement preparation to ensure strong financial stewardship across the organization.
- Lead the organization's financial planning and reporting processes, including annual budgeting and multi-year forecasting aligned with strategic priorities.
- Oversee financial reporting and compliance with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED), including funding requests, financial reports, cost reconciliations, and Contribution Agreement requirements.
- Provide financial oversight and due diligence for funded projects, including project financial reporting, cost-claim reviews, eligibility interpretations, and financial risk management.
- Lead the preparation of annual audited financial statements and support interactions with the Board's Audit and Finance Committee while ensuring strong internal controls, financial policies, and risk management practices.
- Lead and mentor the finance team while fostering a culture of collaboration, accountability, transparency, and sound financial stewardship across the organization.
- You possess a CPA designation and bring strong technical accounting expertise.
- You bring approximately 10 years of progressive finance experience, including at least five years in a senior financial leadership role.
- You have experience managing complex financial environments and overseeing budgets exceeding several million dollars.
- You bring broad finance leadership experience across multiple functional areas.
- You have demonstrated success leading and mentoring finance teams while supporting organizational strategy and operational delivery.
- You are highly analytical and comfortable working with large volumes of financial data, including project-level financial reporting and forecasting.
- You possess strong proficiency in Excel and financial systems.
- Experience working in environments with government reporting requirements, complex funding structures, or collaborative project financing models is considered an asset, as is experience within the agriculture, agri-food, or innovation ecosystem.