Associate Director, Commercial & MGI Finance NUMÉRO DE POSTE: 463953
Our client is a non-profit corporation responsible for managing and operating Canada’s leading global hub airport. They are looking for a Associate Director, Commercial & MGI Finance to join their team!
Why Work Here
- Work closely with the Director, who’s a great mentor
- Great benefits - pension plan
- Bonus - the company is doing well
- CPA dues are covered
- Business Planning & Forecasting (30%)
- Leads the full financial planning cycle, including the Annual Operating Plan, Long-Term Financial Plan, and rolling forecasts, ensuring alignment with corporate and business unit goals.
- Oversees business unit inputs and monthly performance routines to drive portfolio results and accountability.
- Serves as a trusted advisor on planning, forecasting, and performance management, providing insights that enhance decision-making and resource allocation.
- Develops and maintains driver-based financial models for revenues, costs, and unit economics, partnering with Corporate Analytics to integrate passenger and spend insights into business reviews.
- Analyzes aviation activity and key performance drivers to assess financial impacts, identify opportunities, and inform strategic actions.
- Leads continuous improvement initiatives to strengthen forecasting accuracy, reporting efficiency, and data integrity.
- Supports company Finance leadership with MGI budgetary and valuation inputs for Board materials, ensuring transparency and alignment.
- Develop and review business cases, financial models, and scenario analyses to evaluate returns and risks and incorporate into financial outlook
- Guide leaders on financial policies, performance expectations, and budget compliance.
- Financial Reporting, Analytics & Decision Support (35%)
- Lead preparation of accurate, timely financial reports, forecasts, and variance analyses to support monthly, quarterly, and year-end performance reviews.
- Analyze financial results to identify trends, root causes, and opportunities, providing clear, actionable insights that improve decision-making and accountability.
- Develop dashboards and visual reports highlighting key performance drivers, risks, and opportunities.
- Track and interpret KPIs, cost drivers, and business trends to guide strategic and operational decisions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally to enhance reporting processes, strengthen data integrity, and advance automation and self-service analytics.
- Benchmark financial and operational performance to identify improvement areas and adopt best practices.
- Provide forward-looking financial support through scenario modeling, sensitivity analysis, and business case development for investment and strategic decisions.
- Support Finance and Operations leadership with consolidated reporting, performance reviews, and recommendations for corrective action.
- Foster continuous improvement in financial reporting and analytics to enhance efficiency, insight quality, and organizational performance
- Strategic Financial Advisory: Preparing executive-ready, optioned analyses for commercial initiatives (e.g., pricing, leasing, contract economics), applying enterprise-wide business case standards in partnership with Corporate Analytics.
- Business Partnering & Strategic Insight: Collaborating with real estate business leaders to deliver forward-looking financial insights that inform strategic direction, portfolio optimization, and capital investment decisions.
- Post-Investment Review & Value Realization: Conducting post-investment reviews to assess actual outcomes against business cases, driving learning and accountability.
- Accounting, Closing the books & Governance (10%)
- Oversee preparation and review of MGI stand-alone financial statements, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and compliance with organizational and regulatory standards.
- Lead month-end and year-end close processes, including journal entries, reconciliations, and general ledger oversight to ensure timely and reliable reporting.
- Maintain robust financial controls and documentation, ensuring alignment with company’s internal control framework and audit readiness.
- Oversee AP/AR activities and annual recovery calculations in coordination with Dexterra and Operations leadership.
- Drive continuous improvement in accounting processes, policies, and systems to enhance efficiency, transparency, and control.
- Monitor and refine financial and operational KPIs to support accountability and informed decision-making
- Business Initiatives & Strategic Financial Advisory (10%)
- Act as Finance’s subject matter expert on strategic projects, providing analytical rigor to evaluate feasibility, cost-benefit, and long-term value.
- Ensure financial considerations are integrated early in planning and initiatives align with organizational goals and performance targets.
- Lead or support business case development, including financial modeling, scenario analysis, ROI assessment, and risk evaluation.
- Provide proactive, data-driven insights to prioritize initiatives with the greatest financial and strategic impact.
- Partner with operational and functional leaders to translate strategies into financially viable plans with clear short- and long-term implications.
- Manage ad hoc analyses for new initiatives, policy changes, and business transformations, delivering actionable recommendations.
- Collaborate with Corporate Analytics to run scenario modeling (e.g., demand, spend per passenger, cost inflation) to inform recommendations to Commercial leadership and the CFO/Director, Business Finance.
- Capability Uplift & Ways of Working (10%)
- Lead and develop Analysts and Senior Analysts, fostering collaboration, growth, and accountability.
- Align team efforts with strategic goals and empower innovation and ownership.
- Coach on commercial drivers, modeling discipline, and financial storytelling; embed standardized templates and planning/reporting cadences.
- Provide ongoing feedback, development, and clear expectations in an inclusive, high-performance culture.
- Other (5%)
- Performs other related duties as assigned
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Engineering, or related field.
- MBA and/or Master’s in a related field.
- CPA and/or CFA
- Analytics credentials (e.g., Power BI, SQL, Alteryx) considered assets.
- 7–10 years progressive experience in FP&A/Business Finance or commercial analytics with a track record in driver based forecasting and decision support; 5–7 years team/functional leadership preferred (aligned to Associate Director grade expectations).
- Experience in capital intensive or regulated environments; exposure to unit economics, passenger/spend analytics, and standardized business case work with a centralized analytics partner.
- Advanced Excel modeling; Power BI (or equivalent) and SQL familiarity; EPM/ERP (e.g., SAP/Oracle/Anaplan/TM1); driver based planning; scenario/sensitivity methods; valuation concepts (NPV/IRR/WACC); executive storytelling and stakeholder influence.
- Experience preparing board ready exhibits; benefit tracking for commercial initiatives; coaching and standardization at enterprise scale.
$155,000 - $165,000 / year
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