This is a 12 month contract with permanent potential at the end of the contract
Key Responsibilities
Finance Operations and Month-End Close
• Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities.
• Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, schedules, working papers, and related documentation.
• Analyze balance sheet and income statement results and resolve variances.
• Maintain audit-ready documentation and support internal controls, regulatory needs, and annual close.
• Provide flexible backfill support during peak periods, vacations, resource gaps, and project demands.
Financial & Regulatory Reporting
• Prepare internal, external, and management reporting deliverables.
• Support insurance regulatory reporting and filing requirements.
• Contribute to IFRS 17 reporting, analysis, reconciliations, and process support.
• Coordinate audit, review, leadership, and reporting information requests.
Financial Planning, Analysis & Business Support
• Support budgeting, forecasting, planning, and financial review processes.
• Build financial models, dashboards, scenarios, and executive reporting packages.
• Analyze performance, explain variances, and identify emerging trends.
• Prepare ad hoc analysis, Board materials, and leadership presentations.
• Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to gather, validate,



and interpret information.
Project and Cross-Functional Support
• Support finance transformation, reporting, systems, controls, and process improvement initiatives.
• Assist with current reporting tools, finance processes, testing, data validation, and documentation.
• Provide hands-on support through key project milestones and shifting business priorities.
• Apply broad finance experience flexibly across recurring, project-based, and ad hoc work.
Qualifications
• Degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Economics, or related field.
• CPA required or strongly preferred; CFA or equivalent designation an asset.
• 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, reporting, FP&A;, corporate finance, or financial analysis.
• Insurance or financial services experience strongly preferred.
• IFRS 17 knowledge or experience strongly preferred.
• Strong Excel, financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience with financial systems, dashboards, reporting tools, and management reporting.
• Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills.
• Flexible, detail-oriented, independent, and comfortable managing competing priorities.

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📌 Senior Finance Manager - 12-Month Contract with Potential (Manitoba)
🏢 Vaco by Highspring
📍 Manitoba