Senior Manager, Financial Planning & Analysis ACCS and VAHEF

Requisition ID: 44319 

Organization

Located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Peoples, Vancouver has a commitment to becoming a City of Reconciliation. Vancouver consistently ranks as one of the world’s most liveable and environmentally sustainable cities. Named among Canada's Top 100 Employers, BC's Top Employers, and Canada's Greenest Employers, the City of Vancouver seeks colleagues who can help shape and embody our core commitments to sustainability, reconciliation, equity and outstanding quality of life for all residents.

Consider joining our committed team of staff and being part of an innovative, inclusive and engaging workplace.  Working at the City of Vancouver and within the public service can be a rewarding career where you play a key role in ensuring impartial and equitable access to services, upholding ethical governance, and addressing the needs of citizens with integrity and dedication.

Main Purpose and Function

The Manager of FP&A is a strategic finance partner for Arts, Culture and Community Services department (ACCS) including Vancouver Civic Theatres and Social and Cultural grants as well as Vancouver Affordable Housing Endowment Fund (VAHEF). The Manager facilitates the timely and accurate flow of relevant budget information, financial planning and analysis as well as decision making support across ACCS Divisions and staff with a focus on efficiency, effectiveness and strategic planning. 

The Manager of FP&A is responsible for supporting grant, subsidy and other funding agreements with partners including senior government, non profits and private partners.

The position leads the budget, quarterly, and monthly reporting process timelines for operating and capital for all service groups within ACCS (including Grants and VCT) and VAHEF. The Manager is also responsible for all financial planning and analysis and supports the strategic decision making within ACCS and VAHEF. This includes understanding and analyzing the financial implications of decisions, performance metrics, service planning, long-term financial planning including capital planning, budgeting, forecasting and management reporting. 

Specific Duties/Responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnership:

• Leads all aspects of financial planning and analysis for all service groups including the preparation of forecasting, economic analysis, financial modeling, policy development
• Leads, within a matrix structure, the delivery of capital and operating budgets, forecasting and analysis, and monthly and quarterly reporting processes and other, as required
• Plays a key role in the development of the Capital Plan, performance measurement and metrics, as well as service plans
• Collaborates with city-wide FP&A to implement budget processes, systems, and business intelligence reporting as well as other continuous improvement inititiaves, as required
• Prepares and reviews reports and presentations to Council and senior management, leads priority ad-hoc financial analysis initiatives,leads and reviews business cases, and works with the business unit and financial strategies as well as providing data driven decision support
• Works closely with city-wide FP&A to develop or implement performance measurement including benchmark standards
• Develops and maintains long-term financial models incorporating financial implications from city-wide FP&A and ACCS & VAHEF service and strategic plans, Council initiatives, and other agencies as required
• Prepares and reviews reports and presentations to Council and senior management, and leads priority ad-hoc financial analysis initiatives and business case reviews
• Provides leadership and guidance to staff including hiring, performance evaluation, coaching, mentoring, training and development
• Influences and advocates for optimal decision making with a City-wide view, ensuring that critical social issues are acknowledged and factored into the Budget and Service planning to address the City wide impact of ACCS led initiatives
• Other duties/responsibilities as assigned

Budgeting, Reporting, Forecasting and Decision Support:

• Identifies mitigation strategies for budget pressures, and risk factors
• Develops and analyzes business cases for proposed projects, including cost benefit analysis to justify spending proposal and quantify impact on budgets and forecasts
• Reviews and adheres to financial and administrative policies
• Collaborates with Procurement to ensure best practices for budgeting, reporting, and forecasting procurement spend and associated savings as well as, direct role in procurement process, including review of bid committee analysis and attend the Bid Committee meeting when needed
• Manages relationships with business units across the City and external organizations
• Provides strategic financial advice and decision support
• Explains the long-term financial and value-for-money implications of department initiatives
• Links department strategies and City priorities to the budget
• Other duties/responsibilities as assigned

Council Report Concurrences:

• Validates standing authority and policies as they relate to the council report
• Reviews council report for operational and strategic alignment with city objectives
• Validates financial implications and funding sources
• Reviews overall quality of report and make recommendations for improvements

Process improvement Projects:

• Identifies process improvement opportunities
• Works with external parties where required
• Provides supporting role in projects, and organizational and transformational initiatives, where applicable
• Ad-hoc support on departmental deliverables where required

• Other duties/responsibilities as assigned

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Education and Experience:

• A Bachelor degree and a professional accounting designation (CPA, CA, CMA, CGA) or MBA
• Minimum 8 years finance experience in budgeting, financial analysis, forecasting, reporting, and accounting including a minimum of minimum 5 years of experience managing financial staff, preferably in a large multi- unionized environment
• Advanced financial systems experience preferably with integrated ERP and BI reporting environments
• Extensive experience delivering strategic, transformational and general process improvements including all aspects of project delivery from identification to implementation and handoff

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good working knowledge of generally accepted accounting principles as they relate to local government including PSAB
• Advanced knowledge of finance and business concepts
• Leadership skills and the ability to make sound decisions
• Ability to consider options, contingencies and consequences of decision, to make robust fact-based decisions; makes available choices clear and simple to stakeholders
• Ability to actively seeks input from others, and attempts to make decisions collaboratively
• Strong understanding of ACCS Business Unit and diversity of departments
• Understands the steps to achieve long-term business strategy, identify immediate threats or opportunities to the business and resolve or escalate them accordingly
• Strong business sense with a strategic, conceptual and operational orientation.
• Skilled to collaborate with colleagues in ways that is founded in good judgement and supports collaboration, problem solving and planning and to present solutions in clear and compelling terms.
• Analyzes and interprets root causes associated with a given problem
• Ability to integrate facts and apply past experience to identify alternative solutions for current problems
• Ability to develop communication material that is easily understood to influence business partners and management, and simplifies complex information to ensure understanding
• Ability to identify the appropriate audience for sharing information and proactively shares in a balanced and timely manner
• Draws on the strengths and skills of diverse perspectives and develop and maintain valuable networks with internal and external stakeholders
• Translates opportunities into recommendations and communicates to appropriate stakeholders
• Ability to recognize and adapt to different presentation or meeting style/structures based on audience
• Ability to offer insights based on an understanding of the business to influence change at tactical, team and individual levels
• Ability to influence at senior levels of an organization and influence within a matrix organization
• Strong business acumen and capability to link finance to the business
• Excellent financial reporting and analytical  skills
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Attention to detail and the ability to consistently produce accurate, high quality presentations and analysis for executive audiences
• Ability to represent and serve the city at all levels as well as interact with customer and clients outside the organization
• Excellent organizational and project management skills with ability to manage multiple tasks with competing priorities
• Superior research and analytical skills
• Problem-solving and issue resolution skills in a complex business environment

Where operationally appropriate and subject to change, the City of Vancouver has a Flexible Work Program. This program allows staff to work a hybrid work week from locations that are a daily commutable distance from their work at a City worksite.  At this time this position is eligible to be part of the Flexible Work Program.

Business Unit/Department: Finance & Supply Chain Mgmt (1150) 

Affiliation: Exempt 

Employment Type: Regular Full Time 

Position Start Date: October, 2025 

Salary Information: Pay Grade RNG-111: $125,619 to $165,280 per annum

Application Close: September 21, 2025

At the City of Vancouver, we are committed to recruiting a diverse workforce that represents the community we so proudly serve. Indigenous peoples, people of colour, 2SLGBTQ+ persons including all genders and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply.  Accommodations will be provided upon request during the selection process. Learn more about our commitment to diversity and inclusion. 

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