Senior Manager, Finance & Accounting

at  CMHA Calgary

SUMMARY

The Senior Manager, Finance & Accounting will lead a team of Financial Analysts to carry out all day-to-day finance and accounting operations and will hold functional responsibility over financial services, planning, reporting, and accounting. The role will also be responsible for ensuring that accounting systems and procedures are in place to support effective internal control over financial reporting and financial management. Will work closely with the Executive Leadership Team, & their staff

ABOUT US:

It is Canadian Mental Health Association – Calgary Region’s (CMHA Calgary) mission to be a leader in reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction in community. For more than 65 years, we have provided a person and family-centered integrated service model focused on early intervention and prevention of a mental health or substance use concern that delivers a measurable increase in community resiliency.
Our long-standing belief is that recovery is possible. Our recovery model focuses on wellness by shifting the emphasis from a narrow, limiting view of a diagnosis, towards empowering individuals, building their strengths, resiliency and hope for a meaningful life. This recovery is demonstrated in the advancement of Peer Support where individuals with personal experience of a mental health or substance use concern are trained to support others through shared understanding and hope.
We believe that we have an obligation and duty to provide a platform for advocacy and leadership in the community. We have a proven ability to engage, help organize, empower and support the community in building the capacity to understand and support those living with mental health and substance use challenges.

Leadership

• Build trusting relationships with direct reports, and internal and external stakeholders at all levels by modeling thoughtful, authentic, and adaptive leadership
• Build an effective team through providing guidance, coaching, and mentoring
• Ensure that the performance management process is focused on the individual’s growth and is goal oriented
• Ensure succession planning processes and documentation are in place for areas of responsibility and supervision
• Demonstrate role-model behaviors that encourages a safe and wellness-oriented culture that is diverse, inclusive, equitable, engaging, and supports the vision and mission of CMHA.
• Demonstrate strong emotional intelligence along with appropriate situational and conscious leadership skillsets.
• Participate as a member of the executive leadership team in the overall strategic and operational planning and management of the organization

Financial Accounting, Budgeting and Reporting

• Develop and maintain an understanding of the financial operations within each department.
• Develop and oversee the effective communication of timely and accurate financial statements and reports that are appropriate for the users and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP).
• Work closely with Human Resources and Payroll to manage day-to-day and month-end close entries including revenue, payroll, prepaid expenses, and accrued liabilities.
• Review monthly results and implement monthly variance reporting vs. budget with the leadership team, and advise on improvement plans
• Prepare reconciliations for balance sheet and other general ledger accounts including deferred revenue
• Lead the month-end and year-end closing process
• Monitor the internal controls, financial policies and procedures of the organization
• Ensure the organization is compliant with ASNPO and accounting standards
• Manage the preparation of the organization’s year-end charitable tax return
• Oversee the preparation and administration of charitable donation tax receipts
• Oversee the processing of accounts receivable and accounts payable
• Manage the monthly preparation of corporate credit card statements and recording them in the GL
• Add new clients and vendors to the financial system for invoice and payment processing.
• Process cheques and distribute for signatures.
• Review and post payroll and employee benefits.
• Monitor, prepare and post corporate allocations.
• Prepare annual GST return.
• Process employee expense reimbursement claims.
• Monitor daily bank transactions including EFT receipts and e-transfers for cash balance and any unusual items.
• Process CRA payroll remittances.
• Develop and maintain accounting documents and electronic files.