Manager, Finance Automation
Role Overview
Leads transformation engagements across Sun Life’s global Finance community, partnering with Finance teams and developers to define requirements and deliver intelligent automation.
The Finance Accelerator modernizes Finance through process redesign, automation, enterprise tool platforms, and data and analytics.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Leads transformation engagements across Sun Life’s global Finance community, partnering with Finance teams and developers to define requirements and deliver intelligent automation.
The Finance Accelerator modernizes Finance through process redesign, automation, enterprise tool platforms, and data and analytics.
Transformation and delivery
- Lead engagements from discovery and current-state assessment through solution design, delivery, and value realization.
- Identify AI use cases, assess Finance processes and root causes, and design solutions to meet business needs.
- Partner with Finance teams and developers to define requirements and apply appropriate automation and AI tools.
- Turn solution visions into user stories and prioritized backlogs with Agile development teams and business partners.
- Track benefits, advise internal clients, present status and solution options, and lead validation and testing of financial and analytical results.
- Manage concurrent initiatives, remove impediments, and balance priorities, scope, and timelines.
Required qualifications
- Professional accounting designation (CPA, CA, CGA, CMA) or relevant degree with 5–7 years of related industry experience.
- Consulting experience in management, technology, or finance transformation, ideally serving financial institutions or insurance companies.
- Hands-on AI application in Finance, including GenAI, Agentic AI, Copilot, prompt design, or AI-driven automation.
- Advanced Excel and Power Query skills; working knowledge of tools such as Power Apps, Power Automate, Amazon Quick, and RPA.
- Strong communication, presentation, influence, organization, project management, analytical, problem-solving, and relationship-management skills.
Additional skills
- VBA and VBS experience is an asset.
- The role suits candidates with backgrounds in consulting, financial services, insurance, technology, or transformation.
Benefits and development
- The posting describes varied career paths, networking opportunities, and flexible benefits.
- The employer describes its workplace as inclusive and respectful and notes recognition for workplace and mental-health initiatives.
Pay information
- The posting lists a base pay range of 85,000–128,000 and notes that the range may vary by work location or other factors.
- Eligible employees may participate in discretionary incentive plans subject to individual and company performance.
Work arrangement
- Sun Life describes itself as a hybrid organization offering a choice to work from the office and virtually based on business, client, and employee needs.
Posting details
- The posting end date is June 11, 2026.
- The employer may use artificial intelligence to support candidate sourcing, screening, and interview scheduling.
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