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Working in Finance as a Finance Business Partnering leader, this role is the primary finance business partner for GTS, the technology engine behind TMX's growth strategy and business units.

FBPs empower financially sound planning and decision making throughout the organization. You will do this by spreading financial acumen; telling compelling, data-driven stories to spur action; bridging the knowledge gap between finance and operations; and assisting in the creation of financial planning and analysis's (FP&A;'s) decision support tools. As an FBP, you will simplify FP&A; analysis into easily digestible business logic and take a more technology-guided and teaching-focused approach to business partnering, enabling decision makers to make sound financial decisions more independently. The C-suite and business unit executives will also rely on you as a sought-after thought-partner for strategic decisions and for insights that help achieve performance targets and outcomes.

This role has one direct report and a total team size of 2. Responsibilities:

Responsibilities

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Strategic Finance Business Partnering: Global Technology Services (GTS) Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to the CIO and GTS Leadership Team, providing financial leadership, strategic guidance, and commercial governance across all technology spend

Drive cloud financial management (FinOps), developing models to monitor, forecast, and optimize variable cloud infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP), SaaS licensing, and emerging GenAI consumption costs

Provide rigorous business case development and ROI tracking for major technology investments, cyber-security initiatives, enterprise platform upgrades, and infrastructure refresh cycles

Oversee technology capitalization governance (IAS 38 / IFRS), optimizing the financial treatment of internally developed software, R&D;, and capital project portfolios

Accountable for the consolidated planning (Budgets, Multi-Year Strategic Plans, and Rolling Forecasts) for the GTS organization

Partner with Central Corporate FP&A; to shape the technology cost allocation framework (Shared Services / CAM), helping GTS defend technology charges and articulate unit-cost value to Business Unit leaders

Lead vendor spend analytics and commercial evaluations for major technology, hardware, and software software contract negotiations[cite: 1].

Ensure pristine financial integrity, accounting rigor, and month-end/quarter-end reporting accuracy for all GTS operational and capital ledgers





Support deeper understanding of GTS technology cost base, supporting the fast changing technology landscape and further adoption of cloud and AI services

Provide in-depth, highly personalized decision support to executive decision makers: initiative modeling/tracking and business case development, continuously and proactively guiding executives to meet and surpass performance goals, and monitoring . . .

Deepen nonexecutive decision makers' FP&A; acumen to enable independent decision making

Member of GTS senior leadership team and key adviser to the CIO

2. 2) Other Collaborate with PMO and Corporate FP&A; teams on enterprise portfolio governance

Partner with Corporate FP&A;, Corporate Strategy and Strategic Finance teams on advancing enterprise analysis and insights generation

Partner with Corporate Controller to migrate appropriate portions of accounting work to the central accounting team

Champion and participate in knowledge-sharing forums for FBPs and FP&A; to exchange lessons learned on how to best educate decision makers in FP&A;'s thought processes during decision support

Requirements

- Must have experience and skills: 10+ years of dedicated Technology Finance / FinOps / IT Business Partnering experience within a complex corporate or capital markets environment

- Strong understanding of software capitalization rules (IFRS/IAS 38), cloud cost economics (OpEx vs. CapEx models), and technology vendor contract structures

- Proven track record of influencing C-suite technology executives (CIO/CTO) through data-driven financial storytelling

- CPA designation

- Strong organizational, analytical and conceptual skills, able to work at a high level and in detail

- Able to work effectively across organizational lines and pro

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📌 Director, Finance Business Partnering, GTS (Toronto)
🏢 TMX
📍 Toronto