IMMEDIATE INTERIM CHANCE

Interim Director of Finance

Duration: 3 Months

Reports: Chief Financial Officer

Location: Northern Ontario (Virtual)

Our client is a respected community-based hospital that has experienced significant growth and evolution in recent years. As the organization continues to expand its services and invest in the delivery of exceptional patient care, leadership recognizes the importance of ensuring that the finance function has the structure, processes, capabilities, and tools necessary to support the organization's next phase of growth.

To support this objective, the hospital is seeking an experienced Interim Director of Finance who can provide strong operational leadership to the finance team while simultaneously leading a finance transformation initiative informed by a recent Deloitte review of the function.

This assignment is ideal for a hands-on healthcare finance leader who enjoys building capability, modernizing processes, and creating practical solutions within resource-constrained environments.

The role combines day-to-day operational leadership with meaningful transformation work that will leave a lasting impact on the organization.

Key Mandate:

Reporting directly to the CFO, the Interim Director of Finance will assume responsibility for the day-to-day leadership of the finance function and a medium-sized team responsible for budgeting, financial reporting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll support, and financial analysis.

Beyond operational leadership, the successful candidate will partner closely with the CFO to assess and implement recommendations emerging from a recent Deloitte assessment. The goal is not simply to develop recommendations, but to help build a more mature, scalable, and high-performing finance function capable of supporting both organizational growth and outstanding patient outcomes.

This assignment requires a leader who is equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves to solve operational issues while also driving longer-term transformation initiatives.

Key Priorities -

1. Lead and Stabilize the Finance Function

- Provide visible, hands-on leadership to a multidisciplinary finance team.
- Ensure timely and accurate completion of month-end, quarterly, and year-end activities.
- Support budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial planning processes.
- Maintain strong internal controls and compliance with regulatory and Ministry requirements.
- Coach, mentor, and develop staff while building engagement, accountability, and confidence.
- Create clarity around roles, responsibilities, priorities, and service expectations.

2. Professionalize the Finance Function Using the Deloitte review as a foundation,



lead the development and implementation of a practical roadmap to enhance the maturity of finance operation.

Areas of focus include

- Standardization of processes and workflows.
- Documentation of key policies, procedures, and controls.
- Clarification of roles and accountabilities.
- Improved governance and decision-making frameworks.
- Establishment of meaningful performance metrics and reporting.
- Enhancement of customer service provided to operational and clinical stakeholders.

3. Drive Process Improvement and Operational Excellence

- Review current-state finance processes and identify inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and manual workarounds.
- Introduce best practices that improve consistency, accuracy, and efficiency.
- Simplify and streamline workflows where appropriate.
- Improve communication and collaboration between finance and operational departments.
- Build a culture of continuous improvement and problem-solving.

4. Improve Utilization of Technology and Financial Systems:

- Assess current utilization of financial systems and reporting tools.
- Identify opportunities to leverage existing technology more effectively.
- Implement practical enhancements to reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and analytics capabilities.
- Reduce reliance on manual processes and spreadsheets wherever possible.
- Support future-readiness by establishing a stronger digital finance foundation.

5. Build Sustainable Capability: This mandate is not solely focused on strategy development. A critical expectation is implementation.

The Interim Director will

- Build the structures, tools, and processes needed to sustain improvements beyond the assignment.
- Enhance team capability through coaching and knowledge transfer.
- Develop documentation, policies, procedures, and standard operating practices.
- Leave behind a more mature, scalable, and resilient finance function.
- Create a clear roadmap for continued improvement following completion of the engagement.

Deliverables: By the conclusion of the assignment, the organization expects:

- A stabilized and effectively functioning finance department.
- Improved staff engagement, accountability, and performance management.
- An actionable implementation plan arising from the Deloitte review.
- Standardized finance processes and workflows.
- Updated policies, procedures, and internal control documentation.




- Improved financial reporting and management information.
- Enhanced utilization of existing finance technology and reporting tools.
- A capability-building plan to support long-term sustainability.
- Knowledge transfer and transition plan to ensure continuity following the interim engagement.

The Ideal Candidate The successful candidate will bring a combination of operational finance leadership and transformation experience gained within healthcare environments.

Required Experience:

- CPA designation.
- Significant finance leadership experience within healthcare.
- Previous experience as a Director of Finance, Controller, VP Finance, or equivalent.
- Experience serving as the senior finance leader or second-in-command within a small to medium-sized community, rural, or regional hospital.
- Strong understanding of hospital funding models, financial reporting, budgeting, and healthcare finance practices.
- Ideally fully bi-lingual – French/English
- Proven experience leading operational transformation initiatives.
- Demonstrated success improving processes, controls, governance, and team performance.
- Strong project management and implementation skills.
- Experience operating effectively in environments that may lack mature systems, structure, or processes.
- Exceptional stakeholder management and communication skills.

PLEASE SEND YOUR CV (AS A WORD DOC) TO: [email protected] (Subject: Job Title) LHH Knightsbridge Interim Management is a service to help our clients address a wide range of scenarios including leadership support due to sudden departures, driving key change initiatives or leading transformation projects. Our interim executives step in with minimal downtime to meet specific objectives and deliver results. All have held senior positions in the past and have now chosen to offer their unique depth and breadth of experience to organizations on a limited engagement basis.

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Lee Hecht Harrison Knightsbridge Corp. is committed to providing equitable treatment and accommodation to ensure a barrier-free recruitment process. In accordance with the Ontario Human Rights Code, Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act and our AODA policy, a request for accommodation will be accepted as part of the hiring process. If you require accommodation to apply or if selected to participate in an assessment process, please provide your accommodation needs in advance to the Recruitment Lead for this opportunity.

We thank all interested candidates in advance; however, only individuals selected for interviews will be contacted.

August 2026

📌 Interim Director of Finance (Ontario)
🏢 LHH Knightsbridge
📍 Ontario