Lead GWAM expense strategy and financial analysis while partnering with the GWAM CFO, senior leaders, and Finance teams across the organization.

As Associate Vice President, you will deliver consolidated expense performance views supporting strategic decisions, accountability, transparency, and productivity. You will lead consistent expense management practices across GWAM, maintaining financial controls, reporting integrity, and enterprise alignment. The role combines FP&A; leadership, forecasting, reporting, governance, and transformation.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead GWAM’s overall expense management framework across segments and functions
- Direct annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and outlook processes
- Provide senior leaders actionable expense insights, risks, and opportunities
- Oversee monthly reporting, allocations,



scenario modeling, and financial analysis
- Drive simplification, automation, AI, and productivity initiatives

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in finance or related field
- CPA qualification strongly preferred
- 10–15 years of finance experience, including FP&A; or expense management
- Five-plus years owning planning, forecasting, analytics, and stakeholder partnerships
- Experience leading high-performing finance teams across business units and regions

Shape GWAM expense performance through strategic leadership, FP&A; expertise, governance, controls, and executive stakeholder influence.

📌 Associate Vice President Expense Management (Toronto)
🏢 Manulife/John Hancock
📍 Toronto