Manager, Expense Management

Job Description

You are as unique as your background, experience and point of view. Here, you’ll be encouraged, empowered and challenged to be your best self. You'll work with dynamic colleagues - experts in their fields - who are eager to share their knowledge with you. Your leaders will inspire and help you reach your potential and soar to new heights. Every day, you'll have new and exciting opportunities to make life brighter for our Clients - who are at the heart of everything we do. Discover how you can make a difference in the lives of individuals, families and communities around the world. Job Description: Canadian Finance’s Expense Management team is a high-performing group, who are key business partners providing financial advice and support to Canada’s Business Units, Enablement Functions, Technology and Corporate teams. This team is accountable for Canada’s expense planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis to drive expense management across Sun Life Canada and support strategic decisions. Reporting to the Director, Expense Management, this role is accountable for end-to-end Planning and Budgeting across Sun Life Canada, including optimizing the budget framework, managing the Canada wide budget process, developing budget templates, collaborating with partners to address budget queries and consolidating budgets with data driven insights and enhanced reporting. The Manager will play a leadership role in driving a disciplined, efficient, and scalable planning process, while enhancing transparency, insights, and decision support for senior leadership. In addition, this role will support the transformation of expense management in Canada through evolving reporting, elevating relevant insights and developing new frameworks, metrics and dashboards. Through extensive involvement with Canada’s Business Units, Enablement Functions, Technology and Corporate teams, the individual will develop a broad knowledge of all areas, financial and business drivers, and key performance indicators within Sun Life Canada. This position is also responsible for fostering and building a positive, engaging and inclusive team environment, that proactively anticipates business needs and recommends new opportunities and/or enhancements. What will you do? Lead the end-to-end annual planning and budgeting process, including stakeholder alignment across Business Units, Enablement Functions, Corporate and Canada’s Planning teams Develop and maintain planning and budget templates and frameworks to enable consistent, accurate, and efficient inputs Drive consolidation of total Canada expense plan and budget, including analysis of key drivers, variances, and recommendations Partner closely with Business Units and Enablement Functions to enhance financial discipline Deliver clear, concise executive-level messaging on plan outcomes, risks, and opportunities Identify and implement process improvements and automation opportunities to enhance efficiency Support Canada expense plann

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