Director, Financial Strategy and Planning (Interim, 24 month contract)

Position

Description

Reporting to the Senior Vice President, Financial Services and Chief Financial Officer, the interim Director, Financial Strategy and Planning provides strategic and operational leadership across all aspects of THP’s financial and business operations. This is not a traditional finance role; beyond technical expertise in hospital finance, the interim Director will ideally bring experience in process improvement, leading change, and driving strategic initiatives. THP has a long history of strong, leading practice financial stewardship. A key focus of the role is advancing operational efficiency, overseeing the operating plan with an emphasis on financial recovery and government relations in alignment with hospitals across the province. The Director will also play a critical role in stabilizing financial operations, following a recent HRIS implementation, while laying the foundation for a future financial management information system, and advancing strategic projects in partnership with leaders across the organization.

Key leadership priorities for the Director, Financial Strategy and Planning will be to:

• Provide leadership for THP’s operational, capital and treasury financial planning and reporting capabilities.
• Contribute financial insights that inform government fiscal planning and funding policies/practices, ensuring financial sustainability and strategic policy development.
• Support and influence THP’s operations on matters related to hospital financial matters, including long-range financial planning processes, development and coordination of operational service planning and annual operating and capital budgets, operational and capital forecasting, and hospital funding advocacy.
• Provide support to key finance managers overseeing the operational planning, internal and OHRS external reporting, capital planning and reporting, as well as the treasury, cash, and investment management functions.
• Support a range of corporate strategic projects and initiatives of the hospital related to capacity building projects, integrated care, capital and other strategic endeavours.
• Provide support for the continued development of a best-in-class customer service model, working in partnership with a broad group of clinical and enabling services leaders across the organization.
• Fostering a healthy, safe, respectful, equitable and inclusive workplace for diverse teams and individuals to thrive.

Experience Required

The successful candidate will have leadership experience in health care and/or a similarly complex environment/sector, with experience at the Director-level an asset.  With 5-7 years of progressive leadership experience, the successful candidate will ideally have in-depth knowledge of hospital finance, as well as broader health care industry knowledge. Knowledge and experience in leading strategic planning and service planning processes at the corporate-level is an asset. In addition to possessing an accounting designation, the candidate will be an energetic, strategic thinker with the ability to see beyond the numbers. To confidentially explore this opportunity, please email your resume, quoting the appropriate position title, to Judy Mandelman or Heather Spiegel, at resumes@promeus.ca.

Employer

Trillium Health Partners (THP) is the largest academically affiliated community-based hospital network in Canada. Comprised of the Credit Valley Hospital, the Mississauga Hospital, and the Queensway Health Centre, THP serves the growing and diverse populations of Mississauga, West Toronto, and surrounding communities. THP is a teaching hospital affiliated with the University of Toronto.  THP is committed to meaningfully advancing health systems and population health research and innovation and is home to the Institute for Better Health, THP’s research institute.  THP currently operates 1,457 budgeted beds and employs 11,414 staff, 1,495 professional staff (physicians, midwives, dentists) and works with 3,016 learners and 1,304 volunteers, and is growing every year.  Its annual operating budget is approximately $1.6 billion.

THP’s mission is to create a new kind of health care for a healthier community. Guided by its values of compassion, excellence, and courage, THP’s strategic plan envisions a new approach to health – as a learning health system, working in partnership to improve the health in the population of the community and create an inter-connected system that is organized around the patient, both inside the Hospital and beyond its walls, by balancing quality, access, and sustainability.

Note to Applicants

If you do not see yourself fully reflected in every job requirement listed on this posting, we still encourage you to reach out and apply. Research has shown candidates from underrepresented groups often only apply when they feel 100% qualified. We encourage applicants who are members of groups that have been marginalized on any grounds enumerated under the Ontario Human Rights Code to consider this opportunity.

Trillium Health Partners is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering a healthy, safe and respectful environment for healing, based on our values compassion, excellence and courage.  To be Better Together, we commit to fostering a respectful workplace culture that promotes a safe and supportive environment for everyone who provides care, supports caregiving, receives care or visits the hospital.

In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005 and the Ontario Human Rights Code, Trillium Health Partners will provide accommodations throughout the recruitment and selection process to applicants with disabilities as required. 

Applicants must be eligible to work in Canada. We would like to thank all applicants for their interest in this position, however, only those selected for an interview will be contacted. Trillium Health Partners is recognized under the French Language Services Act.

As a condition of employment, we require all staff to be fully vaccinated for COVID19, in addition to other vaccinations required by the Public Hospitals Act.