About Avana
Avana is a growing real estate development and property management company committed to creating safe, vibrant, and inclusive communities where residents feel proud to call home. We develop, build, and manage thoughtfully designed rental communities with a strong focus on quality, resident experience, and community growth. Our workplace culture is rooted in collaboration, accountability, and shared success.
About Avana
Avana is a growing real estate development and property management company committed to creating safe, vibrant, and inclusive communities where residents feel proud to call home. We develop, build, and manage thoughtfully designed rental communities with a strong focus on quality, resident experience, and community growth. Our workplace culture is rooted in collaboration, accountability, and shared success.
About The Role
The Director, Treasury & Business Intelligence leads Avana’s treasury, financial planning, investment analysis, business intelligence, and related financial risk activities. As the senior leader of the function, the Director establishes strategy and standards, approves methodologies and recommendations, provides executive-level advice, and ensures the organization has reliable insight and sufficient financial capacity to execute its plans. The Director is accountable for the quality and effectiveness of the function and leads the Manager, Finance and assigned team members. The role translates financial and operating information into clear recommendations concerning liquidity, financing, capital allocation, development, portfolio performance, and enterprise risk.
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (on-site)
What You’ll Do
Treasury, Cash Flow and Liquidity
- Establish and lead Avana’s corporate treasury, liquidity, reserve, credit facility, and capital deployment framework.
- Review and approve cash flow assumptions, liquidity forecasts, and funding priorities, while preparing recommended actions to executive leadership.
- Assess short- and long-term liquidity requirements and advise executive leadership on financial capacity, timing, and risk.
- Maintain appropriate treasury-related banking relationships and oversee the effective administration of treasury processes.
- Recommend investment strategies for excess cash within approved risk and liquidity parameters.
Financing and Lender Administration
- Working with executive direction, support the delivery of Avana’s financing strategy, annual financing plan, debt structure, lender selection, and negotiation approach.
- Working with executive direction, lead major financing, refinancing, renewal, construction lending, and borrowing decisions.
- Support executive leadership in the internal review and approval of financing models, underwriting assumptions, lender submissions, and recommendations before external distribution or presentation.
- Support senior relationships with lenders, CMHC, brokers, quantity surveyors, and other financial partners.
- Oversee and monitor processes to manage debt maturities, covenants, interest-rate exposure,
and refinancing risk, and direct corrective action where required.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Own Avana’s integrated cash flow planning framework, key assumptions, and scenario methodology, combining operating, financing and related information to ensure a clear view of cash flow status and future requirements.
- Lead long-term scenario planning, stress testing, and analysis of growth, funding, and financial growth and sustainability.
- Challenge operating, development, construction, and financing assumptions to ensure forecasts reflect current plans and risks.
- Identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities and direct deeper analysis where required.
- Approve consolidated forecasts and provide explicit recommendations to executive leadership.
Development, Investment, and Capital Allocation
- Apply underwriting standards, return expectations, risk parameters, and decision criteria for analysis of developments, acquisitions, dispositions, and major capital investments.
- Review and challenge project assumptions, funding structures, sensitivities, returns, and downside risks.
- Provide the final Finance recommendation for material investment and development decisions to executive leadership.
- Monitor portfolio and project performance against approved business cases and direct corrective recommendations.
- Present investment analysis and capital allocation recommendations to executive leadership and ownership, as required.
Business Intelligence and Performance Reporting
- Set the business intelligence roadmap, performance reporting standards, KPI framework, and data governance expectations.
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📌 Director, Treasury (Regina)
🏢 Avana
📍 Regina