Senior Finance Manager - 12 month contract

Toronto, ON
On-site
Posted Oct 7, 2026
1 position

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Employment type: Contract
Experience level: Senior · 5+ years
Minimum education: Professional degree
Posting language: English
Working hours: 40 hours per week
Seniority: Mid-Senior level
Application method: Direct apply is available

Job summary

Support financial close activities, prepare reconciliations and reporting, analyze financial results, and maintain audit-ready documentation. Contribute to planning and analysis, regulatory reporting including IFRS 17, and finance transformation and process improvement initiatives.

Job details

This is a 12 month contract with permanent potential at the end of the contract Key Responsibilities Finance Operations and Month-End Close • Support month-end, quarter-end, and year-end close activities. • Prepare journal entries, reconciliations, schedules, working papers, and related documentation. • Analyze balance sheet and income statement results and resolve variances. • Maintain audit-ready documentation and support internal controls, regulatory needs, and annual close. • Provide flexible backfill support during peak periods, vacations, resource gaps, and project demands. Financial & Regulatory Reporting • Prepare internal, external, and management reporting deliverables. • Support insurance regulatory reporting and filing requirements. • Contribute to IFRS 17 reporting, analysis, reconciliations, and process support. • Coordinate audit, review, leadership, and reporting information requests. Financial Planning, Analysis & Business Support • Support budgeting, forecasting, planning, and financial review processes. • Build financial models, dashboards, scenarios, and executive reporting packages. • Analyze performance, explain variances, and identify emerging trends. • Prepare ad hoc analysis, Board materials, and leadership presentations. • Partner with Finance and business stakeholders to gather, validate, and interpret information. Project and Cross-Functional Support • Support finance transformation, reporting, systems, controls, and process improvement initiatives. • Assist with new reporting tools, finance processes, testing, data validation, and documentation. • Provide hands-on support through key project milestones and shifting business priorities. • Apply broad finance experience flexibly across recurring, project-based, and ad hoc work. Qualifications • Degree in Finance, Accounting, Commerce, Economics, or related field. • CPA required or strongly preferred; CFA or equivalent designation an asset. • 5+ years of progressive experience in accounting, reporting, FP&A, corporate finance, or financial analysis. • Insurance or financial services experience strongly preferred. • IFRS 17 knowledge or experience strongly preferred. • Strong Excel, financial modeling, analytical, and problem-solving skills. • Experience with financial systems, dashboards, reporting tools, and management reporting. • Excellent communication, presentation, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills. • Flexible, detail-oriented, independent, and comfortable managing competing priorities.

What you’ll do

Requirements

Requires a degree in finance, accounting, commerce, economics, or a related field, with CPA required or strongly preferred and CFA or an equivalent designation considered an asset. Candidates should have at least five years of progressive finance experience, preferably in insurance or financial services, along with IFRS 17 knowledge, strong Excel and modeling skills, and effective communication and stakeholder management abilities.