Reporting to Executive Vice President Corporate Services and CFO, Direct responsibilities to oversee Financial Services, Service Planning, Financial Plan and Budgeting, Business Performance Analytics, Case Costing, Special Projects and Funding Advocacy.Responsible for:- Providing strategic financial leadership to execute organization’s strategic vision, priorities and objectives while enhancing financial stewardship, management accountability and system capacity.- Collaborate and Partner with internal and external stakeholders to Lead change management required to support System and Structural consolidation and transformation.- Establish and execute fiscal strategy to support the strategic vision and infrastructure needs that aligns with the current business model and is adaptive to changing healthcare system. - Overall responsibility for the development and execution of Multi-year Strategy that informs the annual Financial Plan; Operating and Capital Budgets, Executive targets, periodic Forecasting and Business Performance Reports enabling complete transparency and execution of financial stewardship.- Spearhead funding advocacy strategy, new revenue generation initiatives and cross functional support services initiatives to ensure harmonized framework and practices, consistent reporting standards, relevant performance metrics and harmonized data; this includes development of new metrics, refining existing reporting standards, consulting/collaborating key stakeholders and optimizing business processes. - Provide innovative and visionary leadership to the Financial Planning and Analysis team fostering creative and collaborative environment, evaluating and forecasting operational and financial performance.- Provide strategic input and direction on the development of technology standards across the Network as it relates to financial forecasting and modelling.

Reporting to Executive Vice President Corporate Services and CFO, Direct responsibilities to oversee Financial Planning, Budgeting, Business Performance, Case Costing, Special Projects and providing financial consulting and strategic support to senior management as an analytical engine of the Network that provides insights and optimizes decision making to support the overall strategic direction of the Network.Responsibilities include:- Collaboration with DCFO and VP/CFO, to integrate financial services across the Network and ensure the departments framework and practices are harmonized;- Provides innovative and visionary leadership to the FP&A team fostering creative and collaborative environment, evaluating and forecasting operational and financial performance;- Plans and manages budgets, forecasts and analysis to ensure compliance with H-SAA- Lead analysis on Health System Funding Reform, working with businesses to maximize revenue, develop business strategy and performance improvement plans;- Manage, provide advice and collaborates with key stakeholders on planning, forecasting, analysis and develop, implement, and evaluate Network operating and capital budgets to support capital and operating decisions; monitors performance indicators, provides causes of variance and recommends strategies to enhance financial performance;- Provides financial consulting and strategic support to senior management; board packages, presentations, industry/peer group comparisons, business opportunities etc.- Strategically aligns departmental financial activities with corporate financial initiatives and the organization's long-term strategies;- Directs and advises development of financial analyses, technology standards incl. data models, analytical template, master data management strategies, financial projections/modeling and analyzes operations to create and support effective, successful action plans;

• Leading the Financial Planning cycle development for both the operating and capital budget.• Developing close working relationships with all lines of business, learning their businesses and providing financial insight.• Preparing Financial Plan documents for presentation and approval of the Finance & Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.• Preparing planning submissions required by the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care and local LHINs, including the Hospital Annual Planning Submission (HAPS), Community Annual Planning Submission (CAPS); Program Specific Submissions.• Developing and refining tools for variance analysis against budget and forecast to identify risks and opportunities.• Collaborating with and evaluating opportunities to increase funding through HSFR initiatives.• Developing staff skills, assisting with achieving career development goals and ensuring team engagement.• Ensuring appropriate allocation of resources through the assignment and distribution of work among the Financial Business Partners.• Creating and updating Financial Planning and Analysis organizational and departmental policies and processes.• Leading to further integrate the budgeting and planning functions, and enhance proper monitoring, reporting and analysis of results against the plan.

• Leading the Financial Planning cycle development for both the operating and capital budget.• Developing close working relationships with all lines of business, learning their businesses and providing financial insight.• Preparing Financial Plan documents for presentation and approval of the Finance & Audit Committee and the Board of Directors.• Preparing planning submissions required by the Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care and local LHINs, including the Hospital Annual Planning Submission (HAPS), Community Annual Planning Submission (CAPS); Program Specific Submissions.• Developing and refining tools for variance analysis against budget and forecast to identify risks and opportunities.• Collaborating with and evaluating opportunities to increase funding through HSFR initiatives.• Developing staff skills, assisting with achieving career development goals and ensuring team engagement.• Ensuring appropriate allocation of resources through the assignment and distribution of work among the Financial Business Partners.• Creating and updating Financial Planning and Analysis organizational and departmental policies and processes.• Leading to further integrate the budgeting and planning functions, and enhance proper monitoring, reporting and analysis of results against the plan.

“Senior Corporate Financial Analyst” combined with Decision Support Consulting, Responsible for:• Monthly: Internal/external reporting and continuous performance analysis (financials combined with statistics) of 3 core programs (200M a year) including revenue generating units and cost centers. Deferred revenue and case costing analysis, ensuring adherence to funding requirements and ministry reporting. Presenting financial and statistical results (variance explanation) to senior leadership team and program leaders. Continuous evaluation of business processes and financial, clinical and statistical results for senior leadership team (SLT) projects, outlining saving opportunities and operational efficiencies resulting from best practices.• Quarterly: Reporting, trend and variance analysis, including forecasts and identification of potential savings.• Yearly: Financial planning, budgeting and benchmarking peer-hospitals using key performance indicators (KPIs). Overseeing preparation, development and maintenance of hospital wide budgets and multi-year operating plan. • Highlighted Achievements: Finance lead during the project of migrating legacy reporting system to SAP. Reengineered monthly budget variance analysis processes resulting in greater efficiency and accuracy in financial analysis/reporting. Developed new comparative and year-over-year trending reports with a balanced scorecard resulting in value added decision making and helping in performance evaluation of program leaders. Developed new excel based reports/queries integrating financial with clinical data for analysts, by running MS Access queries from Excel, providing ability to slice and dice the financial/statistical results.

Reported to Director of Finance, Responsible for supporting 5 different business units:• Full cycle of accounting including preparation and analysis of balance sheet and income statement. Profitability, segment and other management reports, scorecards, benchmarking, weekly flash reports, client and market reports, monthly/quarterly business performance reports and analysis, trends/charts. • Consolidation, Financial Planning, Forecasting, Tax and Financial year end working papers, Financial, variance and cost analysis, Overhead and other cost allocations, Reconciliation of balance sheet and income statement accounts, Bank reconciliation, Investigation of exceptions, Detailed analysis and valuation of work-in-progress (WIP) and accounts receivable (AR), Continuous improvement in reporting and data processing and analysis of different partnership and business accounts.• Developed new reports (excel and datamart based) including a balanced scorecard helping executive management to evaluate the performance of different business unit leaders (rate/volume variances). Developed financial and statistical reports to identify the strengths and weaknesses of different business units contributing to firm across Canada. Improved existing spreadsheets to deliver effective more efficient information to its users, speeding up the analysis process and saving on human efforts costing approximately $35,000 a year in addition to the IT cost savings resulting from smaller size of files. Redesigned the process of planning and forecasting to ease and speed up the process.ACHIEVEMENTS“On the Spot” and “Exceptional Performer” award winner, 2009 and 2010 respectively.

Responsible for 21 braches' financial results:- Administrative, clerical, balancing internal and general ledger accounts, monitoring/resolving any unusual/exceptional transactions, month-end reporting, reviewing daily reports for exceptions (i.e. Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Expense Reports), and performing other duties as required.ACHIEVEMENTS:- "Branch Support Service" award winner.

Responsibilities included – customer service, forecasting, ordering, implementing marketing plans, reconciliation, periodic reporting, balancing cash and scheduling daily work force.ACHIEVEMENTS:- "Customer Service Sunshine" and "Special Recognition - Management" award winner.

Responsibilities included:- Ensuring prompt resolution of client investigation requests, conducting root cause analysis on anomalies.- Liaise with business partners and support branches to complete requests and investigation, periodic revenue and expense reporting, general ledger reconciliation, financial analysis, researching credit history, aging statement and follow-up, structuring credit according to client's needs and balance sheet account reconciliation.- Compiling financial statements, coordinating with external auditors, and preparing financial budgets and reports/statements on half year-end and year-end.ACHIEVEMENTS:- "Employee of the Region - 2001" award winner. Promoted to Senior Officer.- Redesigned existing credit client database (MS Access) by implementing changes to suit the managements' needs better and effectively delivering the output.- Automated financial reporting system. Made leading contribution to project of launching new product “Credit Cards” and “Automated Banking Card System”.