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VP, Finance, Corporate Segments – Total Company Expenses
Sun Life. Provide strategic financial leadership across global Corporate Functions, enterprise-wide expense management and significant enterprise initiatives .
Core Competencies
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Demonstrates strategic financial leadership with expertise in FP&A, corporate finance, and expense management. Proven ability to influence decisions, lead teams through change, and establish financial governance across complex organizations.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Accounting Designation10+ Years Experience in Financial ManagementExpertise in FP&A and Corporate FinanceStrong Business Acumen in IFRS 17 and IFRS 9Experience Leading Teams in a Matrix Organization
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Hard Skills
Financial Planning and AnalysisExpense ManagementInvestment GovernancePerformance ManagementCost Allocation MethodologiesFinancial ReportingData AnalysisBudgetingForecastingFinancial Evaluation
Soft Skills
Excellent Interpersonal SkillsTeam BuildingEffective CommunicationNegotiation SkillsChange Management
Certifications & Qualifications
Accounting Designation
Industry Keywords
Corporate FunctionsEnterprise InitiativesMatrix OrganizationFinancial GovernanceExpense Performance
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Provide strategic financial leadership across global Corporate Functions, enterprise-wide expense management and significant enterprise initiatives
- Serve as senior Finance partner to Corporate Function leaders, providing strategic advice, constructive challenge and decision support
- Lead planning, forecasting, reporting and performance management across Corporate Functions
- Translate Corporate Function strategies into financial implications, resource requirements and investment choices
- Provide insights on financial performance, risks, opportunities and structural cost drivers
- Lead enhancement of Corporate cost allocation methodologies and transparency regarding Corporate services and allocated expenses
- Partner with Business Group Finance leaders to understand cost drivers, forecast allocations and identify optimization opportunities
- Partner with Capital, Investment teams and tax for Corporate segment results, forecasts and plan
- Lead consolidation, analysis and executive reporting of Total Company expenses
- Identify expense trends, pressures and opportunities for management action
- Provide an enterprise-wide view of expense performance across businesses, functions and geographies
- Lead Finance oversight for enterprise expense-management and productivity programs
- Establish productivity and sustainable expense-reduction frameworks and metrics
- Track enterprise expense commitments and escalate risks or gaps
- Bring external perspectives and financial-services benchmarks into expense-management discussions
- Lead the Finance Centre of Excellence for Enterprise Key Initiative governance
- Establish standards for business cases, financial evaluation and approval of significant enterprise investments
- Provide independent Finance challenge of investment assumptions, costs, benefits, risks and operating impacts
- Support executive prioritization of competing investments
- Establish financial governance throughout the investment lifecycle
- Enhance investment-governance frameworks and executive reporting
Requirements
What you’ll need- Accounting Designation with 10+ years of experience in the financial management field in a senior leadership role or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Experience in FP&A, corporate finance, expense management, investment governance and/or business partnering
- Experience operating within a large, complex, matrixed organization
- Experience supporting senior executives and influencing decisions across business groups and geographies
- Demonstrated experience leading teams through change
- Proven experience building and developing a strong team
- Excellent interpersonal, organizational and team building skills
- Excellent oral, written and presentation skills, with strong attention to detail
- Proven ability to influence the performance of others to deliver results
- Excellent collaboration skills and ability to work across multiple sites and business units
- Strong business acumen and understanding of IFRS 17 and IFRS 9
- Ability to apply advanced financial concepts across business activities
- Experience collaborating with Senior Business and Corporate Leaders
- Proven experience leading in a matrix model and negotiating solutions
- Effective communication, negotiation and conflict management skills
- Effective change management through impact and influence skills
Benefits
Comp & perks- Incentive plans with discretionary payments based on individual and company performance
- Hybrid work arrangement with flexibility to work from the office and virtually
- Accommodation support for persons with disabilities
- Job postings available in an alternative format upon request