Associate Director, Strategic Finance Partnering

Canadian Blood Services•Ottawa, ON

28d•CA$132,300 - CA$155,600•Hybrid

About The Position

Canadian Blood Services is seeking a strategic, operationally minded finance leader to serve as its Associate Director, Strategic Finance Partnering. This newly created role will provide embedded finance leadership to some of the organization’s most complex, operationally critical and financially significant portfolios, including Donor Relations, Collections, Supply Chain, Digital Solutions and Technology, Medical Affairs, and Research and Innovation. At CBS, strategic finance partnering plays a central role in strengthening organizational decision-making by translating financial information into clear business insight, building financial acumen among leaders and teams, and equipping decision makers with practical tools, analysis, and advice to improve performance. The function also serves as a critical bridge between finance and operations, helping leaders better understand trade-offs, risks, opportunities, and the financial implications of strategic and operational choices. The Associate Director will also lead, coach, and develop a small team of Strategic Finance Partners supporting key portfolios across the organization, including Supply Chain, Digital Solutions and Technology, Medical Affairs, and Research and Innovation. In doing so, the Associate Director will help set priorities, strengthen consistency in business partnering practices, provide guidance on complex stakeholder issues and strategic analyses, help strengthen financial capability outside of Finance, shape the design and adoption of decision-support tools that translate financial information into business insights, and serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to executive leaders and their teams.

Requirements

Extensive experience in financial planning and analysis within large, complex operational environments.
Deep expertise in budgeting, forecasting, financial modelling, pricing, business case development, and performance analysis.
Ability to simplify complex financial concepts into practical and actionable insight.
Highly collaborative relationship builder who thrives in matrixed organizations.
Ability to influence effectively across executive and operational teams.
Experience supporting operationally intensive environments such as manufacturing, healthcare, supply chain, or commercial operations.
Comfortable coaching senior leaders.
Comfortable facilitating cross-functional alignment.
Comfortable mentoring finance professionals.
Thoughtful, collaborative leadership style grounded in accountability, continuous improvement, and partnership.
Strong communication and storytelling skills.
Ability to connect financial insights to operational realities in a way that drives action and improves performance.
Energized by building new capabilities, elevating organizational financial acumen, and contributing to an organization with a meaningful national mandate.

Responsibilities

Provide embedded finance leadership to complex, operationally critical, and financially significant portfolios.
Translate financial information into clear business insight.
Build financial acumen among leaders and teams.
Equip decision makers with practical tools, analysis, and advice to improve performance.
Serve as a bridge between finance and operations to help leaders understand trade-offs, risks, opportunities, and financial implications of choices.
Lead, coach, and develop a small team of Strategic Finance Partners.
Set priorities for the team.
Strengthen consistency in business partnering practices.
Provide guidance on complex stakeholder issues and strategic analyses.
Strengthen financial capability outside of Finance.
Shape the design and adoption of decision-support tools.
Serve as a trusted advisor and thought partner to executive leaders and their teams.
Help leaders think more strategically and financially by coaching decision makers, simplifying complex analysis, and embedding stronger financial thinking across the organization.