Associate Director, Financial Planning and Analysis
Ottawa, ON, CA, K1G 4J5 Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CA, B3B 0H7 Brampton, ON, CA, L6T 5M1
Please note this role will work in a hybrid environment. The successful candidate will be working a mixture of on-site and off-site work to meet the needs of our organization. Currently, employees are expected to have an in-person presence for at least 40% of their work time.
Job posting ID: 8782
Employment status: Temporary full-time
Position's anticipated end date: 2029-07-06
Classification: MGMT
Salary/Rate of pay: $132,300 - $155,600
Application deadline: 2026-07-06
Application requirements:
- Your up-to-date resume.
- We recommend you save a copy of the job posting for reference throughout the recruitment process.
Do you currently work for Canadian Blood Services? All employees must apply via the internal career page.
Together, the work we do connects people and changes lives — including your own.
Be part of a dynamic, collaborative and caring organization committed to saving and improving lives. Thousands of patients depend on us every day for reliable access to safe blood, plasma, stem cells and organs and tissues.
About the role
Canadian Blood Services is looking for a regular full-time Associate Director, Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis to join our dynamic Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis team.
The Corporate FP&A team is responsible for translating organizational strategy and priorities into an integrated annual budget, rolling forecast, and in-year performance view for the enterprise. The team provides the consolidated financial planning, analysis, reporting, and decision support needed to guide resource allocation, investment decision-making, and executive oversight.
Reporting to the Director, Strategic Financial Management, you will play a vital role at Canadian Blood Services by leading the organization’s annual planning, budgeting, forecasting, and in-year performance management cadence. You will own the enterprise FP&A rhythm that turns strategic direction into actionable annual plans, consolidated forecasts, resource allocation recommendations, and executive-ready insights.
You will also lead a multi-level Corporate FP&A team of managers and analysts across Canada, build consistent planning practices across Finance, strengthen planning controls and auditability, and partner closely with Strategic Finance Partnering, Financial Reporting and Advisory Services, People, Culture and Performance, Digital Solutions and Technology, procurement, and data and analytics teams to improve how Canadian Blood Services plans, prioritizes, and performs.
Formula for success
- Leveraging your enterprise FP&A leadership experience, you will oversee the annual budget, quarterly outlook, and forecast processes, ensuring plans are aligned with organizational strategy, funding realities, affordability, and enterprise priorities.
- Drawing on your strong planning and governance discipline, you will own the consolidated financial planning calendar, including key assumptions, guidance, templates, milestones, review checkpoints, and executive decision points.
- Using your ability to lead across functions, you will coordinate budget roles, timelines, workflows, and planning forums across budget owners, Finance teams, People, Culture and Performance, procurement, and other enabling functions.
- Focusing on executive-ready insight and storytelling, you will produce concise, story-led analysis that translates financial and operating performance into clear messages, decisions, risks, opportunities, and actions for senior leaders, internal committees, and the board.
- Utilizing your data and systems literacy, you will ensure finance data governance for planning, including hierarchies, assumptions, driver definitions, mapping logic, version control, model inputs, data quality standards, and planning tool readiness.
- Drawing on your control and documentation mindset, you will maintain strong internal control over planning outputs, including documented assumptions, approval pathways, key reconciliations, data lineage, change control, and audit-ready planning documentation.
- In coordination with Financial Accounting, you will support the preparation of financial statements and relevant documentation for audits and grant reporting.
- Drawing on a head-and-heart leadership approach, you will demonstrate empathy, and promote a culture of excellence, continuous learning, and professional development to maximize the team's performance and potential.
- Applying your operational and financial analysis skills, you will lead targeted cost and performance analysis across key operational and workforce cost drivers, including manufacturing costs, labour costs, productivity trends, and other critical areas of spend.
- Drawing on your head-and-heart leadership and coaching skills, you will lead, develop, and support career progression within a multi-level Corporate FP&A team, building a high-performing culture grounded in analytical rigour, collaboration, curiosity, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
Desired education and skills
- You will have a Chartered Professional Accountant designation in good standing and/or an MBA; an undergraduate degree in finance, accounting, economics, business, or a related field is required.
- You will have typically 10 or more years of progressive experience in FP&A, corporate finance, budgeting, forecasting, enterprise planning, or a related finance leadership role.
- You will have demonstrated experience leading enterprise planning cycles, consolidated forecasts, annual budgets, and executive-level performance reporting, synthesis, and story-telling.
- You will have excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to translate complex financial and operating information into clear, concise, and decision-useful insights for senior leaders.
- You will have the ability to build trusted relationships across Finance, corporate functions, operational teams, technology teams, and other enabling functions, while influencing decisions without direct authority.
- Experience in the public sector, health sector, biologics, manufacturing, or another complex regulated environment would be considered an asset.
An equivalent combination of education, training and experience may be considered.
What you can expect
- This role will work in a hybrid environment with requirements to be onsite at Canadian Blood Services location 40% of the time/2 days of the week.
- You will work Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week,7.5 hours per day.
- You will be required to travel within Ontario 10% of the time, and as required.
If this role resonates with you, we encourage you to apply by providing your up-to-date resume. This could be your first step towards a meaningful and inspiring career. Come to work each day knowing that you save lives.
We acknowledge that the work of Canadian Blood Services spans many Territories and Treaty areas across the country, and we are grateful for the Traditional Knowledge Keepers and Elders who have guided us in this important work. We recognize the land and waters that have inspired our work and offer gratitude to those Indigenous peoples on whose territory we work, live and play.
Diversity and inclusion play a vital role in ensuring health equity for patients across Canada. We are committed to reflecting Canada’s population in our organization and fostering an environment where all employees can be their authentic selves, with equal opportunities to succeed and contribute.
We thank all applicants for their interest. However, only those considered for an interview or those invited to participate in an assessment will be contacted. Emails are sent directly from our system, to ensure you receive them please add donotreply@blood.ca and system@successfactors.com to your safe senders list.
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