Senior Data & IT Business Office Advisor

About this opportunity

What you’ll do

• Support planning, budgeting, financial modeling, multi-year forecasting, cost estimating, accruals, journal entries, and investment tracking.
• Develop and steward business cases from opportunity identification through implementation, tracking assumptions, risks, decisions, costs, benefits, and expected value.
• Apply NPV, IRR, payback, scenario and sensitivity analysis, ROI narratives, and cost-benefit analysis to support approvals, prioritization, and benefits tracking.
• Use SAP financial data to interpret cost structures, commitments and actuals, reporting outputs, allocations, and financial trends.
• Prepare executive reporting and governance materials for intake, triage, stage gates, committee reviews, portfolio updates, and investment records.
• Partner with cross-functional stakeholders to translate requirements into D&IT deliverables and improve value management, reporting, processes, and governance.

Minimum requirements

• Post-secondary degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Accounting, Commerce, Information Technology, or a related discipline.
• At least 8 years of experience across financial management, business cases, portfolio management, project governance, strategy execution, or technology investment analysis.
• Strong financial background in planning, budgeting, forecasting, modeling, cost estimating, benefits realization, and executive reporting.
• Strong SAP experience interpreting financial data, cost structures, commitments and actuals, and reporting outputs.
• Experience with TCO, business cases, project costing, benefits and economic analysis, NPV, IRR, payback, sensitivity or scenario analysis, and ROI narratives.
• Strong communication, storytelling, stakeholder engagement, facilitation, negotiation, influencing, and consensus-building skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced cross-functional environment and apply pragmatic, value-focused governance.
• Must be legally authorized to work in Canada; equivalent combinations of experience and education may be considered.

Work arrangement

• The role is described as office-based.

Application deadline

• Application deadline is 11:59 PM Mountain Time on October 22, 2026.

About Cenovus

Employee programs

• The employer describes paid vacation, health and dental benefits, mental health coverage, life insurance, disability benefits, employee assistance, and virtual healthcare.
• Development offerings include internal courses, education assistance, special projects, and leadership development programs.