Director, Integrated Finance Services (VPFA/VPRI)

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Reporting to the Executive Director, Integrated Finance Services, the Director, Integrated Finance Services—Multi-Faculty/Shared Services leads the integrated Finance service across an assigned managed group comprising multiple faculties or shared-service units. The Director is accountable for Finance service integrity, quality, consistency and performance across the managed group.

The Director leads through Managers who are the principal Finance contacts and advisers to their designated Deans or senior unit leaders and exercise delegated authority within their assigned client areas. The Director implements approved institutional frameworks and delegations, establishes working arrangements and escalation protocols within them, and ensures Managers have the authority, capability and support required to deliver effective service.

The Director maintains the integrated financial perspective across the managed group, balances Finance capacity across client areas and holds Managers accountable for service performance and development. The Director engages directly with client leaders on material, complex, cross-client or escalated matters while preserving Managers’ ownership of principal ongoing Finance relationships. Faculty, shared services and portfolio leaders remain accountable for academic and operational priorities, business and staffing decisions, budget approval, corrective business action and resource allocation within their delegated authorities. Integrated Finance Services supports these decisions through analysis, advice, controls and implementation of approved decisions.

Finance Function Leadership and Operating Model

- Provides leadership and accountability for the integrity, quality and performance of integrated Finance services across the assigned managed group and contributes to the coherence of the wider Integrated Finance Services function.
- Leads and empowers Managers who are each accountable for integrated Finance service delivery and the principal Finance relationship within their assigned area, ensuring each

Manager has the delegated authority, capability, access and support required to deliver

effective service.

• Implements the approved Integrated Finance Services operating model, service standards,

governance frameworks and delegated authorities within the managed group; Monitors Finance service delivery, quality, responsiveness, workload, outstanding issues

Resolves service, capacity, priority and accountability conflicts across client areas within the

assigned managed group. to the Executive Director and represents the managed group in institutional Finance forums.





• authority, involve material managed-group risk, require decisions across client areas or

Maintains an integrated view of financial health, risk and planning positions across the

managed group, drawing on Manager-led client analysis to identify aggregate pressures,

common risks and institutional implications.

• Acts as the primary escalation point for financial, control, compliance and service matters

matters and supports Managers in resolving significant, ambiguous or novel

Reviews aggregate financial positions, material assumptions and implications across client

areas at key planning and reporting points and challenges where warranted.

• Advises the Executive Director on emerging financial pressures, structural risks, portfolio wide

Maintains appropriate relationships with senior client leaders and participates in material

planning, risk and service discussions while Managers retain ownership of principal ongoing

Finance relationships.

• Provides strategic financial advice and decision support; authorized client leaders retain

final academic, operational and resource-allocation decisions.

Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning

- relies on Manager-led detailed preparation and client analysis.
- Reviews consolidated positions at key planning and reporting points and challenges

material assumptions, commitments, risks, opportunities and variances.

• Maintains and communicates the integrated financial view of the portfolio, drawing on

Manager-led analysis and advises on pressures, structural risks and corrective options.

- Ensures approved budget and resource decisions are accurately reflected in financial plans.
- Coordinates portfolio requirements with central budgeting, planning and other institutional

Finance functions.

Finance Services, Controls, and Risk

• Oversees applicable reporting, account administration, close, audit support and control

Oversees financial administration and control monitoring across applicable funds and

escalates material compliance or financial risk.

• Develops or recommends mitigation strategies for significant financial and control risks and

Leads portfolio responses to audit, funding, regulatory and external reporting requirements.

Cross-Portfolio Capacity and Resource Management

• Allocates approved Finance capacity and resolves workload priorities within the assigned

portfolio or managed group, within delegated authority.

• Monitors service delivery, workload, accuracy, outstanding issues and client feedback and

Implements common Finance policies, systems, tools, and standards and recommends

People Leadership and Finance Capability

• Leads Managers, senior professionals and other Finance employees across the portfolio and

establishes clear performance and accountability expectations.

• Conducts performance reviews and obtains appropriate client input regarding

responsiveness and service delivery.

• Addresses performance, attendance,



conflict and employee-relations matters within

Makes decisions and recommendations regarding recruitment, workforce planning,

Builds resilience through cross-training, documentation, succession planning, and

Fosters, promotes and drives equity and inclusion.

Transformation and Institutional Contribution

- Champions portfolio-level process improvement, standardization, and technology adoption.
- Contributes portfolio expertise and recommends improvements to institutional Finance

standards, controls, governance and communities of practice.

• Leads portfolio implementation of approved Finance systems, processes and operating model

Other duties as required in support of the department and/or unit.

University degree in Commerce, Business Administration, Accounting, Finance or a related

field.

- accounting designation.
- Minimum seven years of experience in financial management, planning, reporting,

Significant experience leading Finance employees through Managers, team leads or senior

Demonstrated experience advising senior academic, executive or administrative leaders on

Experience leading process improvement, organizational change or major finance systems.

• Progressive management and leadership experience in a complex, service-oriented

controls, risk management and diverse funding or revenue sources.

• Experience in a university, public-sector, health-sector, research-intensive or similarly

complex workplace is an asset.

• Comprehensive knowledge of the implementation of financial strategy, governance, risk,

organizational planning and integrated Finance service delivery.

• Superior relationship-building, influencing and communication skills and the ability to

Advanced financial-management, modelling, forecasting, analytical and risk-assessment

Ability to interpret and apply a broad range of institutional policies and procedures.

• Translates approved priorities into portfolio workplans, service expectations, governance

cadence and performance measures; Allocates approved Finance capacity and resolves workload priorities within the portfolio.

• Determines the analysis, modelling, scenarios and information required to support material

Makes or recommends material Finance service and control decisions within delegated

authority and recommends courses of action on sustainability, resource options and risk.

• Interprets and applies financial policy in complex portfolio circumstances, implements

improvements to Finance standards.

- Strong management/leadership skills.
- manner, using highly developed relationship building, influencing, and negotiating skills to

Evaluates employee performance and decides on appropriate training or coaching to

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The University provides support in its recruitment processes to all applicants who require accommodation due to a protected ground under the Ontario Human Rights Code, including those with disabilities.

📌 DIRECTEUR DU SERVICE DES FINANCES ET DU CONTRÔLE DE GESTION (H/F) (Kingston)
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📍 Kingston