Top Benefits
About the role
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Department: Finance & Strategic Operations
Position Type: Permanent Full-time
Expected Start Date: ASAP
What we offer:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Comprehensive Benefits package includes Extended Health Care, Dental Benefits, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, and Employee and Family Assistant Program (EFAP)
- Employee discounts on food and retail items and free parking
- Free entrance to the Park, including to our many public special events
- Working in a beautiful park setting
- Generous paid time off, including Vacation days, Sick Time
- Employer-matched Pension Plan at 5%
Who We Are:
Heritage Park is Canada's largest living history museum and offers visitors a chance to experience life in Western Canada from the 1860s to the early 1950s. The park features historical buildings, costumed interpreters, working antiques, and various exhibits that provide insight into the region's past.
Job Overview:
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) plays a strategic role in financial planning, reporting, and analysis, serving as a trusted advisor to the VP of Finance and to the organization. This role encompasses financial reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, capital and asset management, compliance oversight, and financial modeling. The Finance Business Partner ensures accurate and timely financial information to support organizational decision-making and collaborates with operational leaders to drive financial sustainability and strategic growth.
Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting and Variance Analysis
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, ensuring accuracy and alignment with organizational objectives.
- Collaborate with department leaders to interpret financial results, highlight trends, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare AFRC and other Board-level financial reports, presenting insights in a clear and actionable manner for executive stakeholders.
- Lead organization-wide variance analysis, providing actionable recommendations to improve financial performance and resource allocation.
Excellence Indicators: Timely delivery of board-ready reports (within 10 business days), supported by clear, actionable analysis and strong internal stakeholder feedback.
Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning
- Lead the annual budget process, coordinating input across all departments to ensure alignment with strategic goals and operational priorities.
- Partner with department leaders to provide financial analysis and scenario planning that informs decision-making.
- Build and maintain multi-year financial models to support long-term planning and sustainability.
- Prepare quarterly forecast updates, integrating actual performance and emerging business conditions into revised projections.
Excellence Indicators: Budgets and forecasts are accurate, timely, aligned with strategic goals, and developed through strong cross-functional collaboration.
Capital and Asset Management Reporting
- Oversee capital accounting, including project tracking, capitalization, and fixed asset reporting.
- Monitor capital projects for adherence to timelines, budgets, and financial controls.
- Collaborate with capital planning, operations, and facilities teams to develop lifecycle strategies for infrastructure and major assets.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards for capital expenditures, amortization, and depreciation.
Excellence Indicators: Capital and asset reports are accurate, audit-ready, and aligned with project timelines and infrastructure plans.
Compliance, Audit, and Regulatory Oversight
- Lead preparation for external financial audits, ensuring readiness of schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
- Serve as a liaison with auditors and regulators, fostering positive and transparent relationships.
- Maintain up-to-date financial policies and procedures, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee compliance reporting (e.g., GST, AGLC, CRA/charity filings), ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Excellence Indicators: All audits and regulatory filings are completed on time with no material findings, supported by clear documentation and positive auditor relationships.
People Leadership
- Manage a team of three with portfolios in inventory, capital, and AP/GL.
- Lead change management initiatives, equipping the team to adapt to evolving systems, processes, and organizational priorities.
- Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration within the finance team.
- Establish annual SMART goals with direct reports and ensure regular feedback and progress tracking.
- Provide day-to-day coaching, mentorship, and performance management to foster technical growth and professional development.
Excellence Indicators: Team members are engaged, high-performing, and consistently meet deadlines and accuracy standards under supportive, proactive leadership.
Applications, Systems, and Reporting
- Leverage financial systems (e.g., Business Central, Excel-based models) to generate reports and dashboards that enhance decision-making.
- Ensure continuous improvement of financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
- Analyze and present key financial metrics to leadership, highlighting risks, opportunities, and trends.
- Collaborate with IT and other stakeholders to optimize system use and improve reporting automation.
Excellence Indicators: Reports and system outputs are accurate, user-friendly, and contribute to improved efficiency and stronger business decisions.
Organizational Excellence and Wellbeing
- Contribute to inspiring and immersive experiences at the Park by engaging in Heritage Park initiatives that align with our mission and vision, ensuring authenticity in our historical setting and stories.
- Demonstrate commitment to workplace health and safety by complying with Heritage Park's Health, Safety and Environment Management System (HSEMS), following safe work practices, reporting work-related incidents, injuries, and hazards, participating in employer training, and adhering to policies including the Code of Conduct and the Workplace Violence and Harassment policy.
- Demonstrate responsible stewardship of our people, collections, and financial assets by driving growth with innovation, transparency, and financial sustainability, while embracing our historical assets and recognizing all contributors.
- Recognize all contributors to our community as integral to our success, fostering a sense of community and collaboration.
- Actively support a positive work environment by creating an atmosphere of inclusion, engagement, belonging, and fulfillment for employees and volunteers, in line with Heritage Park values.
Required Qualifications:
- A university degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.CPA, CMA, CFA, or equivalent designation (or working toward completion).
- Minimum five (5) years of progressive experience in finance and accounting with a strong focus on budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in people management, including delegation, change management, mentorship, and performance management.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience leading finance projects such as system implementations, process improvements, and compliance initiatives.
- Experience in a not-for-profit attraction’s environment, including managing grants, donations, and funding sources, would be considered an asset.
- Medium-level proficiency in Office 365 (Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word) and proficiency in financial and accounting software (e.g., Business Central).
- Strong understanding of ASNPO, capital accounting, and financial compliance requirements.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze financial data and provide strategic insights to leadership.
- Excellent customer service focus, including the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- All successful candidates (over the age of 18) will be required to go through a Police Information Check as a condition of employment.
Hours of Work:
- The standard hours for this position are 35 hours per week;
- Occasional holiday, evening, and weekend work may be required
- The schedule will generally be five consecutive days per week (Monday to Friday); and
Top Benefits
About the role
Job Title: Finance Business Partner
Department: Finance & Strategic Operations
Position Type: Permanent Full-time
Expected Start Date: ASAP
What we offer:
- Flexible work arrangements
- Comprehensive Benefits package includes Extended Health Care, Dental Benefits, Basic Life Insurance, Accidental Death and Dismemberment, Short-Term and Long-Term Disability, and Employee and Family Assistant Program (EFAP)
- Employee discounts on food and retail items and free parking
- Free entrance to the Park, including to our many public special events
- Working in a beautiful park setting
- Generous paid time off, including Vacation days, Sick Time
- Employer-matched Pension Plan at 5%
Who We Are:
Heritage Park is Canada's largest living history museum and offers visitors a chance to experience life in Western Canada from the 1860s to the early 1950s. The park features historical buildings, costumed interpreters, working antiques, and various exhibits that provide insight into the region's past.
Job Overview:
The Finance Business Partner (FBP) plays a strategic role in financial planning, reporting, and analysis, serving as a trusted advisor to the VP of Finance and to the organization. This role encompasses financial reporting, variance analysis, budgeting, forecasting, capital and asset management, compliance oversight, and financial modeling. The Finance Business Partner ensures accurate and timely financial information to support organizational decision-making and collaborates with operational leaders to drive financial sustainability and strategic growth.
Responsibilities:
Financial Reporting and Variance Analysis
- Prepare and review monthly, quarterly, and annual financial statements, ensuring accuracy and alignment with organizational objectives.
- Collaborate with department leaders to interpret financial results, highlight trends, and identify opportunities for improvement.
- Prepare AFRC and other Board-level financial reports, presenting insights in a clear and actionable manner for executive stakeholders.
- Lead organization-wide variance analysis, providing actionable recommendations to improve financial performance and resource allocation.
Excellence Indicators: Timely delivery of board-ready reports (within 10 business days), supported by clear, actionable analysis and strong internal stakeholder feedback.
Budgeting, Forecasting, and Financial Planning
- Lead the annual budget process, coordinating input across all departments to ensure alignment with strategic goals and operational priorities.
- Partner with department leaders to provide financial analysis and scenario planning that informs decision-making.
- Build and maintain multi-year financial models to support long-term planning and sustainability.
- Prepare quarterly forecast updates, integrating actual performance and emerging business conditions into revised projections.
Excellence Indicators: Budgets and forecasts are accurate, timely, aligned with strategic goals, and developed through strong cross-functional collaboration.
Capital and Asset Management Reporting
- Oversee capital accounting, including project tracking, capitalization, and fixed asset reporting.
- Monitor capital projects for adherence to timelines, budgets, and financial controls.
- Collaborate with capital planning, operations, and facilities teams to develop lifecycle strategies for infrastructure and major assets.
- Ensure compliance with accounting standards for capital expenditures, amortization, and depreciation.
Excellence Indicators: Capital and asset reports are accurate, audit-ready, and aligned with project timelines and infrastructure plans.
Compliance, Audit, and Regulatory Oversight
- Lead preparation for external financial audits, ensuring readiness of schedules, reconciliations, and supporting documentation.
- Serve as a liaison with auditors and regulators, fostering positive and transparent relationships.
- Maintain up-to-date financial policies and procedures, ensuring adherence to industry standards and regulatory requirements.
- Oversee compliance reporting (e.g., GST, AGLC, CRA/charity filings), ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
Excellence Indicators: All audits and regulatory filings are completed on time with no material findings, supported by clear documentation and positive auditor relationships.
People Leadership
- Manage a team of three with portfolios in inventory, capital, and AP/GL.
- Lead change management initiatives, equipping the team to adapt to evolving systems, processes, and organizational priorities.
- Promote a culture of ownership, accountability, and collaboration within the finance team.
- Establish annual SMART goals with direct reports and ensure regular feedback and progress tracking.
- Provide day-to-day coaching, mentorship, and performance management to foster technical growth and professional development.
Excellence Indicators: Team members are engaged, high-performing, and consistently meet deadlines and accuracy standards under supportive, proactive leadership.
Applications, Systems, and Reporting
- Leverage financial systems (e.g., Business Central, Excel-based models) to generate reports and dashboards that enhance decision-making.
- Ensure continuous improvement of financial processes, systems, and reporting capabilities.
- Analyze and present key financial metrics to leadership, highlighting risks, opportunities, and trends.
- Collaborate with IT and other stakeholders to optimize system use and improve reporting automation.
Excellence Indicators: Reports and system outputs are accurate, user-friendly, and contribute to improved efficiency and stronger business decisions.
Organizational Excellence and Wellbeing
- Contribute to inspiring and immersive experiences at the Park by engaging in Heritage Park initiatives that align with our mission and vision, ensuring authenticity in our historical setting and stories.
- Demonstrate commitment to workplace health and safety by complying with Heritage Park's Health, Safety and Environment Management System (HSEMS), following safe work practices, reporting work-related incidents, injuries, and hazards, participating in employer training, and adhering to policies including the Code of Conduct and the Workplace Violence and Harassment policy.
- Demonstrate responsible stewardship of our people, collections, and financial assets by driving growth with innovation, transparency, and financial sustainability, while embracing our historical assets and recognizing all contributors.
- Recognize all contributors to our community as integral to our success, fostering a sense of community and collaboration.
- Actively support a positive work environment by creating an atmosphere of inclusion, engagement, belonging, and fulfillment for employees and volunteers, in line with Heritage Park values.
Required Qualifications:
- A university degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, or related field.CPA, CMA, CFA, or equivalent designation (or working toward completion).
- Minimum five (5) years of progressive experience in finance and accounting with a strong focus on budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience in people management, including delegation, change management, mentorship, and performance management.
- Minimum two (2) years of experience leading finance projects such as system implementations, process improvements, and compliance initiatives.
- Experience in a not-for-profit attraction’s environment, including managing grants, donations, and funding sources, would be considered an asset.
- Medium-level proficiency in Office 365 (Excel, SharePoint, OneDrive, Word) and proficiency in financial and accounting software (e.g., Business Central).
- Strong understanding of ASNPO, capital accounting, and financial compliance requirements.
- Data-driven mindset with the ability to analyze financial data and provide strategic insights to leadership.
- Excellent customer service focus, including the ability to manage competing priorities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively across all levels of the organization.
- All successful candidates (over the age of 18) will be required to go through a Police Information Check as a condition of employment.
Hours of Work:
- The standard hours for this position are 35 hours per week;
- Occasional holiday, evening, and weekend work may be required
- The schedule will generally be five consecutive days per week (Monday to Friday); and