Requisition Details: Employment Status: Regular, Full-time (1.0 FTE)Program Name: Finance Number of Hours Bi-Weekly: 75Work Schedule: DaysOn Call: NoExisting Vacancy: Yes - we're currently hiring candidates for an existing vacancy in this position. Job Summary:  The Senior Manager Finance provides operational support to the Senior Director Finance by managing the day to day operations of the Regional or National finance department. Roles reporting directly to this position include Finance Managers, Financial Analysts and Finance Clerks. Key Responsibilities: Hires, and provide orientation for new staff as required.Ensure all staff receive PDP's annually, assisting them with their professional development.Coaches, advises, motivates and provides leadership to staff; creates a positive workplace for staff.Oversees general accounting and financial reporting Preparation of the operational budgets including: support to the Site Operations departments and Finance Managers, or Corporate Services departments in preparing annual budgets.Providing finance support to operational sites or corporate services departments.Introduce and implement process changes due to ongoing process improvement and or system changes.Lead the process for preparing monthly financial statements, ensuring accuracy and the achievement of the timelines as established monthly.Attend finance meetings to support site operations or corporate services departments in their review of financial results and understanding actual variances to budget.Ensure all balance sheets accounts are reconciled, analyzed and are fully supported with the appropriate audit evidence.Lead the process for preparing external funder reporting, ensuring accuracy and the achievement of the funder due dates.Lead the process to prepare all audit requirements and ensure they are accurately prepared and within the pre-established timelines.Respond to questions from the auditors.Preparation of the annual audit templates supporting the preparation of the annual audited financial statements.Ensure the payroll vacation, stats, comp and flex banks in the payroll database are reconciled to the liabilities in the general ledger.Ensure T3010's are prepared for the applicable Community Corporations.Participate as team members in project teams and committees as required, such the SAP working group, and priority projects.Prepare complex financial analysis supporting operations and corporate services departments in their decision making processes as required.Participates in the preparation of the quarterly forecasting process and provides support to Corporate Services departments.Common Leadership ResponsibilitiesPromotes the strategy of VON and their role as an integrated community care provider to all stakeholders and staff.Prioritizes and ensures alignment of emerging opportunities in the community with VON strategic plan.Provides leadership in navigating the requirements and complexities of unionized and non-unionized environments.Coaches, advises, motivates, and provides leadership to staff; creates a positive workplace for staff. Promotes the Lean team management approach to ensure a common paradigm of management and discipline of management practices. Ensures there are mechanisms for all staff to come together to hear of organizational news and to provide feedback on what is working and what is not working.Ensures all Districts have a plan to complete performance development and learning plans with all staff.Promotes common approaches to orientation, learning, motivating, recognizing and supporting staff when achieving organizational goals; such as meeting or exceeding KPIs, meeting or exceeding milestones.Provides leadership and commitment to building client and family engagement and following accreditation Canada Standards.Provides leadership in the promotion of a safe and healthy workplace ensuring workplace conduct and activities are in accordance with the provincial Occupational Health and Safety Ac