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The Senior Director of Financial Planning and Analysis leads the Bank's financial planning, forecasting, and performance analysis, supporting executive decision-making and overseeing the financial planning center of excellence.
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Job Description
The Work
The Senior Director, Financial Planning and Analysis leads the Bank’s enterprise financial planning, forecasting, performance analysis, and management reporting activities and oversees the Financial Planning & Analysis Centre of Excellence within the VP, Financial Planning & Analysis portfolio. The role establishes an integrated view of financial performance, outlook, risks, and opportunities to support executive decision-making and disciplined resource and capital allocation.
The role partners with business and functional leaders to translate strategic priorities into financial plans, challenge assumptions, assess performance drivers, and provide timely, decision-useful insight. It is accountable for the quality, consistency, governance, and continuous improvement of planning and forecasting processes and for establishing a high-performing Financial Planning & Analysis Centre of Excellence that scales common standards, tools, models, data, and insight across the Bank.
Responsibilities
Financial Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management
Capital Forecasting, Strategic Capital Allocation, ICAAP & Stress Testing
Executive & Strategic Financial Storytelling
Management Reporting, Data & Insight
- Oversee recurring management reporting and dashboards, ensuring that measures, definitions, commentary, and source data are consistent and decision-useful.
- Establish and monitor key performance indicators and financial drivers that connect strategic objectives, operating activity, and financial outcomes.
- Strengthen data quality, model governance, documentation, controls, and review practices for material planning and management reporting outputs.
- Drive automation and simplification of planning, forecasting, modelling, and reporting processes to improve speed, accuracy, transparency, and analytical capacity.
- Partner with Data and Technology stakeholders on requirements, prioritization, testing, implementation, and adoption of financial planning and analytics capabilities.
Leadership, Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Establish and oversee the Financial Planning & Analysis Centre of Excellence, including its mandate, governance, operating model, service catalogue, priorities, measures, and capability roadmap.
- Develop common planning, forecasting, modelling, reporting, and business-partnering standards, and support adoption across Financial Planning & Analysis and partner teams.
- Build reusable tools, templates, driver libraries, scenario models, data definitions, and analytical practices that improve consistency, speed, and decision usefulness.
- Create a community of practice that strengthens capability through coaching, knowledge sharing, quality review, and continuous learning.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of finance professionals; establish clear accountability, effective succession and development practices, and high standards for analysis and communication.
- Maintain an effective control environment for planning, forecasting, modelling, and management reporting, and address issues identified through review, audit, or control testing.
Requirements
Lets Talk About You!
- University degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- CPA or CFA designation or an equivalent recognized finance designation.
- At least 12 years of progressive finance experience, including substantial experience in financial planning and analysis, forecasting, management reporting, financial modelling, and executive decision support.
- Senior leadership and people-management experience, including experience setting functional priorities, reviewing complex work, coaching leaders and professionals, and delivering through others.
- Advanced knowledge of financial statements, performance drivers, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, profitability, return on equity, and capital-aware decision-making within financial services.
- Experience producing and presenting concise analysis for executives and governance forums, with the judgment to distinguish material issues, challenge assumptions, and recommend action.
- Advanced spreadsheet and presentation skills and experience with enterprise planning, reporting, business intelligence, and financial data tools. Specific systems: To be confirmed.
- Strong written and verbal communication, stakeholder-management, analytical, problem-solving, organization, and change-leadership skills.
- Experience in a Canadian bank or other regulated financial institution, including knowledge of banking products, net interest margin, balance sheet drivers, capital, and regulatory considerations.
About the job
- Posted on
- Sep 23, 2026
- Job type
- Full-time
- Location
- TorontoOn-site
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