Finance Team Lead (RFT 1.0 FTE)

Position Information
Posting Number: ROM25-133E Title: Finance Team Lead (RFT 1.0 FTE) Position Status: Regular Full-time FTE: 1 Job Schedule: Days Department: Finance Union: Non-union Site: Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre Number of Vacancies: 1

About The Royal

As one of Canada's foremost mental health care and academic health science centres, The Royal has a clear purpose: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. This is at the core of everything we do and it is driven by the passion, focus and dedication of our employees. Every day, the work that we do transforms the lives of people with mental illness through specialized mental healthcare, advocacy, research and education.

Duties:

The Finance Team Lead provide strategic oversight, guidance and accountability to the IMHR and ROH Foundation. The role supports managers in their daily operations, ensuring tasks are completed on time and workloads are effectively distributed.

• Prepare month/year end close schedule and deadlines, ensuring work equitably distributed amongst analysts.
• Lead the full accounting cycle, ensuring all financial deadlines are met with accuracy and efficiency.
• Provide guidance and mentorship to analysts, assisting with investigation and resolution of anomalies, variances, and errors
• Review funding letters, ensuring accurate recording and tracking of all reporting obligations.
• Prepare reporting schedule for monthly, quarterly, annual and ad hoc reports for external funders, ensuring equitably workload distribution among analysts.
• Leads all financial analysis for IMHR and the Foundation ensuring timely and accurate completion.
• Support the budget preparation process, ensuring accuracy and alignment with organizational goals.
• Work in a manner that complies with staff and patient/client safety practices, policies and procedures of The Royal.
• Ensure a work environment that is conducive to the Royal's Anti-Racism, Harassment, Discrimination-Free Workplace and work safety policies and practices.
• Demonstrate commitment to health equity, values diversity and contributes to an inclusive working environment.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Finance or related filed.
• Chartered Professional Accountant designation mandatory.
• Minimum of five (5) years' accounting experience, including working with financial systems in a complex and dynamic environment required.
• 3 years' experience in a computerized accounting environment, including systems and reporting
• Strong knowledge of spreadsheets (Excel, Adaptive, ROSS)
• Excellent organizational, time management and problem solving skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to work under pressure, ensuring financial deadlines and reporting requirements are met
• Strong analytical skills
• High level of discretion and professionalism
• Proven ability to lead and foster teamwork
• Demonstrates initiates to recommend changes
• Proficiency in financial reporting, reconciliation, and compliance with regulatory standards.
• English level A- is mandatory in oral expression/comprehension, reading comprehension and written expression. Bilingual (French/English) is considered an asset.

Salary Range: 42.98 to 51.31 per hour
Additional Information

• All applicants must provide a recent resume that clearly indicate that they meet the required qualifications.
• Please apply by clicking on the Apply button below.
• The Royal sincerely thanks all applicants for their interest in a career with us; however, only those applicants selected for an interview will be contacted.
• All new hires will be required to obtain a clear and valid Criminal Record or Vulnerable Sector Records Check as a pre-condition of employment.
• The Royal is an equal opportunity employer. Upon request, accommodations due to a disability are available throughout the recruitment process.