Manager, Finance
Role Overview
Reporting to the Director, Queen’s Health Sciences Finance, the Manager oversees integrated day-to-day delivery of Finance Services for QHS.
The role supports client service through financial preparation, analysis, operational delivery, team execution, and advanced advice within portfolio frameworks.
The position plans and allocates team work, integrates operational information with forecasts and analysis, and maintains relationships with QHS stakeholders.
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About Queen’s University
Queen’s University is a Canadian research-intensive university with a broad range of research, faculty administration, and corporate services.
Role overview
Reporting to the Director, Queen’s Health Sciences Finance, the Manager oversees integrated day-to-day delivery of Finance Services for QHS.
The role supports client service through financial preparation, analysis, operational delivery, team execution, and advanced advice within portfolio frameworks.
The position plans and allocates team work, integrates operational information with forecasts and analysis, and maintains relationships with QHS stakeholders.
Budgeting and financial planning
- Develop, consolidate, and monitor budgets, staffing plans, and forecasts for assigned units.
- Prepare forecasts, variance and trend analyses, projections, scenarios, and models for leadership review and decision-making.
- Identify financial pressures, risks, and opportunities; recommend action and reflect approved decisions in plans, reports, and systems.
- Prepare financial reports, dashboards, briefing materials, and presentations; support financial modeling, costing, and scenario analysis.
Finance operations
- Oversee account administration, transactions, reconciliations, journal entries, receivables, payments, and routine financial reporting.
- Monitor account activity, commitments, revenues, expenses, reserves, balances, and other indicators across multiple funds.
- Ensure transactions and balances are complete, accurate, valid, authorized, and documented; coordinate corrections and escalate material issues.
- Support period-end activities, audits, and financial health and risk monitoring across assigned areas.
Controls and team delivery
- Apply and explain University and Finance policies, accounting requirements, delegated authorities, and internal controls.
- Translate requirements into practical guidance, monitor compliance, and maintain procedures, records, documentation, and audit trails.
- Lead individual contributors, set priorities, allocate work, and resolve operational issues within established parameters.
- Keep the designated senior Finance leader informed of significant strategic, policy, control, capacity, and senior-client issues.
Role qualifications
- The role requires advanced practical financial advice, detailed financial analysis, and day-to-day finance service delivery within established frameworks.
- The manager plans and balances team workload and resolves routine to moderately complex matters within delegated authority.
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