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About the Role
The Finance Manager will provide leadership and oversight across CDI’s financial operations, accounting, reporting, compliance, and internal controls. This role leads key financial processes, including month-end and year-end reporting, budgeting and planning, audits, treasury, and funder reporting, while ensuring the accuracy and integrity of financial information. The position involves leading and developing the accounting team, strengthening financial processes and systems, and partnering with program managers and senior leadership to provide financial insight and guidance.
Responsibilities
- Oversee general ledger accounting and month-end, quarterly, and year-end close processes, ensuring financial statements and reports are accurate, timely, and complete.
- Maintain the integrity of financial information and ensure reporting requirements are consistently met.
- Lead budgeting and planning activities, monitor financial performance, and provide analysis that supports informed decision-making.
- Help translate financial information into practical insights that support organizational and program priorities.
- Coordinate the annual audit and preparation of audited financial statements.
- Oversee compliance with accounting standards, government requirements, funder obligations, and organizational policies.
- Strengthen internal controls, financial policies, and processes to support effective stewardship and manage risk.
- Manage cash flow, reconciliations, banking relationships, investments, liquidity, tax remittances, and the corporate credit card program.
- Ensure day-to-day financial operations are well managed while balancing multiple deadlines and reporting requirements.
- Provide direction, coaching, training, and performance management to accounting staff, ensuring workloads and priorities are effectively managed.
- Foster collaboration, accountability, and continuous learning while helping the team navigate changing priorities and deadlines.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen financial workflows, controls, reporting, and ways of working.
- Contribute to financial systems implementation and automation initiatives, working across teams to introduce practical improvements that increase efficiency, accuracy, and effectiveness.
Requirements
- Comprehensive experience overseeing financial operations, including month-end and year-end close, audit preparation and management, budgeting and planning, financial reporting, and internal controls.
- Understanding of Canadian accounting standards and the reporting and compliance requirements of a nonprofit organization with multiple government and other funding sources.
- Experience leading and developing an accounting or finance team.
- Ability to set clear expectations, manage competing priorities and deadlines, coach and support team members, and create an environment of accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
- Advanced Excel skills and experience working with financial and accounting systems.
- Experience supporting financial systems implementation, automation, or other process improvement initiatives is valuable.
- Ability to interpret complex financial information, identify trends and risks, and turn analysis into clear, practical recommendations.
- Comfort supporting budgeting, variance analysis, financial performance monitoring, and decisions about resource allocation.
- Ability to communicate financial information clearly to individuals with varying levels of financial knowledge.
- Ability to build trusted relationships with program managers, senior leaders, auditors, funders, government agencies, and other stakeholders.
- A collaborative and solutions-focused approach to working across the organization.
- Comfort working in an environment with concurrent deadlines, changing priorities, and multiple reporting requirements.
- Ability to stay organized and composed under pressure.
- Ability to take initiative to solve problems and look for opportunities to improve processes and team operations.
- Offers of employment are contingent upon the successful completion of a Vulnerable Sector Check.
- Credential verifications and references are required.
Skills
- Financial oversight
- Practical, hands-on approach
- Core accounting and financial processes management
- Month-end and year-end close
- Budgeting
- Audits
- Reporting
- Internal controls
- Compliance
- Accuracy
- Accountability
- People leadership
- Team development
- Deadline-driven environment
- Adaptability
- Solutions-focused
- Continuous improvement
- Financial systems implementation
- Advanced Excel
- Financial and accounting systems
- QuickBooks (valuable)
- Concur (valuable)
- Analytical mindset
- Interpersonal skills
- Communication
- Collaboration
Location
- Toronto
Work Type
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Onsite (first 60 days)
- Hybrid (up to two remote days per week)
Experience Level
- Finance Manager
- Finance leader
- People leader
- Experience managing core accounting and financial processes
- Experience leading and developing an accounting or finance team
Education Level
- CPA designation
Salary/Compensations
- $83,000 - $90,000
Benefits
- Full health and well-being benefits
- Flexible hours in a planned program environment
- Focus on cross-disciplinary collaboration and knowledge sharing
- Ongoing paid professional development opportunities and certifications
About the Company
- Children are at the front and centre of what we do; they are the foundation of our purpose and the basis for our evidence-driven strategy.
- Our mission is to transform the lives of children, youth and their families by developing and delivering innovative, research-based mental health and early learning programs.
- At the Child Development Institute (CDI), we are passionate about helping our communities’ most vulnerable members and their caregivers.
- CDI has a legacy of more than 100 years of helping children and families.
- Recognized as a leader and model for measurement-based impact, we are client-centred, family-centred, and data-informed.
- We are a place where professionals grounded in mental health, care, and well-being of infants, children and youth, come together in collaboration, learning and inclusion.
- As a multiservice organization delivering social, emotional, and behavioural counselling services, early childhood education, learning disabilities and mental health services, and family violence services, we address the whole person from when they begin their life.
- Every child and family that reaches out to us is unique, and we value and embrace their individuality.
- We deliver the tailored support and tools they need to build life-long skills, positive mental health, and resilience.
- Fostering positive transformations in mental health for over a century, CDI is a world-class leader trusted in helping children, youth and families through a wide range of evidence-informed services to build lasting change.
- At CDI, we prioritize the mental well-being and work-life balance of our teams.
- We acknowledge the reality of the emotionally demanding work each of us puts in every day.
- We strive to create a collaborative, diverse, inclusive, and equitable space where creativity flourish.
Equal Opportunity
- CDI is firmly committed to diversity within its community and welcomes applications from racialized persons/persons of colour, Indigenous People of North America and the world, persons with disabilities, 2SLGBTQIA+ persons, and those who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
- We are committed to providing equitable opportunities in employment and to providing a workplace which is free from discrimination and harassment.
- We are equally committed to providing an inclusive and accessible workplace.
- If you require accommodations, please reach out to us at careers@childdevelop.ca.