Finance System & Data Analyst
About the role
Our current hybrid model requires employees to work on-site three days per week. This schedule supports collaboration while offering flexibility. Please note that on-site requirements may change at any time based on operational needs.
The Finance Systems & Data Analyst delivers accurate financial services and analysis, ensuring compliance with controls, contracts, legislation, and industry standards. This role leads process improvements, provides technical guidance to junior staff, and supports strategic projects by optimizing financial systems, transferring knowledge, and mitigating risk.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Provide strategic financial advise, recommendations, and subject matter expertise
- Analyze, audit and interpret financial and statistical data to ensure accuracy and identify trends
- Develop and maintain reports, forecasting models, and complex financial models for strategic projects
- Ensure compliance with fiscal, regulatory and contractual requirements
- Identify opportunity to improve financial performance, reduce costs, and enhance processes
- Maintain and optimize departmental tools, systems, and documentation for accuracy and reliability
- Implement new processes and systems with appropriate controls for quality assurance and automation
- Support knowledge transfer, staff training, and act as a resource for escalated issues
- Monitor strategic initiatives, assess risks, and recommend solutions
- Stay current with emerging practices and technologies to drive continuous improvement
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics or relevant field.
- MBA, Master of Finance or Data Analytics (preferred).
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) (preferred).
- Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting tools.
- Experience with data visualization platforms.
- Strong ability to interpret financial data, build models, and provide strategic insights.
- Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and SQL for data visualization and reporting.
- Skilled in identifying trends, assessing risks, and recommending improvements.
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication; ability to present complex information to diverse audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
- Experience in optimizing workflows, developing policies, and implementing system enhancements.
- Ability to support or lead strategic initiatives, manage timelines, and monitor progress.
- Understanding of healthcare regulations, financial compliance, and clinical data standards.
About Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
The Royal is one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres. Our mandate is simple: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. The Royal combines the delivery of specialized mental health care, advocacy, research and education to transform the lives of people with complex and treatment resistant mental illness. The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health raises funds that support The Royal’s work while placing a sharp focus on awareness building through the You Know Who I Am campaign.
The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (ROHCG) is made up of:
* The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (ROMHC) - a new 188-bed state-of-the-art mental health facility located in Ottawa;
* The Brockville Mental Health Centre (BMHC) - a specialized 219-bed psychiatric facility located in Brockville;
* The University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) - home of leading-edge multidisciplinary research programs that investigate the biological and psychological factors contributing to mental illness and innovative ways to treat mental illness;
* Royal Ottawa Place (ROP) - a 96-bed long-term residential care centre located in Ottawa; and
* The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health - the fundraising organization that supports mental health research, capital projects and equipment purchases on behalf of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.
Finance System & Data Analyst
About the role
Our current hybrid model requires employees to work on-site three days per week. This schedule supports collaboration while offering flexibility. Please note that on-site requirements may change at any time based on operational needs.
The Finance Systems & Data Analyst delivers accurate financial services and analysis, ensuring compliance with controls, contracts, legislation, and industry standards. This role leads process improvements, provides technical guidance to junior staff, and supports strategic projects by optimizing financial systems, transferring knowledge, and mitigating risk.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders
- Provide strategic financial advise, recommendations, and subject matter expertise
- Analyze, audit and interpret financial and statistical data to ensure accuracy and identify trends
- Develop and maintain reports, forecasting models, and complex financial models for strategic projects
- Ensure compliance with fiscal, regulatory and contractual requirements
- Identify opportunity to improve financial performance, reduce costs, and enhance processes
- Maintain and optimize departmental tools, systems, and documentation for accuracy and reliability
- Implement new processes and systems with appropriate controls for quality assurance and automation
- Support knowledge transfer, staff training, and act as a resource for escalated issues
- Monitor strategic initiatives, assess risks, and recommend solutions
- Stay current with emerging practices and technologies to drive continuous improvement
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Data Analytics or relevant field.
- MBA, Master of Finance or Data Analytics (preferred).
- Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) (preferred).
- Proficiency in financial modeling, forecasting, and reporting tools.
- Experience with data visualization platforms.
- Strong ability to interpret financial data, build models, and provide strategic insights.
- Proficiency in Excel, Power BI, and SQL for data visualization and reporting.
- Skilled in identifying trends, assessing risks, and recommending improvements.
- Clear and effective written and verbal communication; ability to present complex information to diverse audiences.
- Strong interpersonal skills to work with cross-functional teams and external stakeholders.
- Experience in optimizing workflows, developing policies, and implementing system enhancements.
- Ability to support or lead strategic initiatives, manage timelines, and monitor progress.
- Understanding of healthcare regulations, financial compliance, and clinical data standards.
About Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre
The Royal is one of Canada’s foremost mental health care and academic health science centres. Our mandate is simple: to get more people living with mental illness into recovery faster. The Royal combines the delivery of specialized mental health care, advocacy, research and education to transform the lives of people with complex and treatment resistant mental illness. The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health raises funds that support The Royal’s work while placing a sharp focus on awareness building through the You Know Who I Am campaign.
The Royal Ottawa Health Care Group (ROHCG) is made up of:
* The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre (ROMHC) - a new 188-bed state-of-the-art mental health facility located in Ottawa;
* The Brockville Mental Health Centre (BMHC) - a specialized 219-bed psychiatric facility located in Brockville;
* The University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research (IMHR) - home of leading-edge multidisciplinary research programs that investigate the biological and psychological factors contributing to mental illness and innovative ways to treat mental illness;
* Royal Ottawa Place (ROP) - a 96-bed long-term residential care centre located in Ottawa; and
* The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health - the fundraising organization that supports mental health research, capital projects and equipment purchases on behalf of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group.