Finance Tasked with ensuring the institution’s financial health, we bring diligence, accuracy and a customer-focused approach to the work we do.

Finance Business

Partner to support strategic decision-making and strengthen financial performance across the organization. This role is the Finance liaison for Deans, Directors, and Managers across SAIT.

The Finance Business

Partner will be a key member of both Finance and operational teams to provide strategic and financial support while ensuring relevant timely and accurate financial reporting, accountability and decision support. While reporting into Finance department, this role will work closely with operations to ensure operational best practices are in place, while adhering to accounting policies, institutional procedures, and effective internal controls.

Financial

Planning, Analysis and Reporting: Provide support and advice related to Finance processes to align with school’s strategy, including procurement support, effective internal controls, and capital asset management. Complete program costing and analysis on new product development in collaboration with Finance Business Services. Coordinate with Human Resources to support workforce planning, following the position management framework.

Provide guidance to clients on SAIT’s financial policies, processes and expectations, and how to read financial reports. Work with Team Coordinator and other Finance Business partners to prepare consolidated reporting and analysis, including annual budget, quarterly forecasts, monthly financial results, program costing and key performance indicator data. Review and analyze key data for consistency between programs and across streams.

Develop and implement standard service level requirements between Business Services and School/Department.



Responsible for the overall quality of services prepared by the Financial Analysts and the overall accuracy, completeness and timeliness of reporting and analysis presented to key contacts. Act as a mentor to the Financial Analysts, including coaching, evaluation of assignments, negotiating timelines and input into task allocation.

Participate in departmental and divisional projects and initiatives. Proactively identify and address gaps in training or lack of clarity of expectations for the team. Participate in development and implementation of standard service level requirements between Business Services and School/Department.

Work with Financial Analysts to meet customer/client service expectations. Collaborate with other Finance Business Partners to develop high functioning team dynamic and general understanding of operations, issues, risks of their portfolios.

Process

Improvement and Innovation Proactively understand emerging process improvements, tools, and changing requirements being implemented by all areas of Finance. Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or equivalent. 5+ years of related budgetary and accounting experience. Completion of a professional accounting designation. Proficient with ERP systems and Microsoft Office.

Experience and knowledge in Workday Adaptive or OfficeConnect would be an asset.

Experience in post-secondary or higher education setting would be an asset. Demonstrated organizational and time-management skills. We’re committed to community and belonging

Community and belonging is essential to achieving SAIT's vision to be a global leader in applied education. We encourage applications from women, Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Learn more about Community and Belonging at SAIT. #

📌 Finance Business Partner, FP&A (Calgary)
🏢 sait.ca
📍 Calgary