Senior Manager, Projects

Job Description

Our client is looking for a Senior Manager, Project on a full time basis.

Location: 5 days on site in Oshawa, Ontario

Responsibilities:

• Lead the implementation of Finance ERP system, ensuring alignment with financial processes and operational goals.
• Act as a key liaison between business stakeholders and IT teams to ensure ERP solutions meet Finance needs.
• Analyze and document existing financial processes, identifying opportunities for process improvement and implement digital enhancement.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to integrate ERP functionality with the company’s finance objectives.
• Foster collaboration across finance, IT, System Integrator, and business teams to ensure alignment and accountability in achieving transformation goals.
• Ensure that financial processes are documented and designed to scale with the company’s operational needs.
• Stay informed of industry trends to introduce innovative practices and tools for finance transformation.

Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or a related field.
• Professional designations such as CPA, CA is required.
• Robust FP&A expertise, including financial planning, forecasting, and data analysis
• Expertise in financial data modelling
• Hands-on experience as a finance practitioner (e.g., controller, finance manager) with exposure to ERP systems.
• Proven ability to optimize financial processes and implement practical solutions within large organizations
• Strong understanding of finance processes and strong analytical skills.
• Ability to translate business requirements into actionable steps for ERP system implementations
• Excellent interpersonal and collaboration skills to engage effectively with technical and non-technical teams.
• 8+ years of progressive experience in finance, accounting, or business operations.

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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Highspring’s client. You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present you as a candidate for the foregoing position. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if one is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@vaco.com .

Vaco by Highspring respects your privacy and is committed to providing transparent notice of our policies in English here and in French here. Additionally, the company uses AI to perform preliminary screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.

Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

Having said that Vaco by Highspring believes that the salary range referenced reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).