1245 Director of Finance - Full Time

**Director of Finance** **York Region Children’s Aid Society | Newmarket, Ontario** **Lead with purpose. Strengthen our future.** **Bring your financial expertise, strategic perspective, and entrepreneurial thinking to an organization dedicated to children, youth, and families.** At York Region Children’s Aid Society (YRCAS), strong financial leadership helps make essential services possible. Behind every budget, technology investment, and operational decision is an opportunity to strengthen how we protect children and youth from abuse and neglect and support their well-being and best interests. Working alongside parents, caregivers, and community partners, we deliver equitable, culturally aligned services across York Region. Our diverse, interdisciplinary teams bring fresh thinking to child-, youth-, and family-centred care, supported by a culture of belonging where people are encouraged to contribute ideas and lead within their roles. As our **Director of Finance**, you will join the Senior Leadership Team and work closely with the CEO and Board to turn strategic priorities into sustainable action. Your portfolio spans **Finance, Information Technology, Property and Facilities, and Procurement**—giving you a significant opportunity to shape the systems, resources, and infrastructure that support our mission. You will also help build our next chapter: developing a shared services model that brings the Society’s expertise to community partners and creates sustainable service-based funding opportunities. If you are a strategic CPA who combines sound stewardship with an entrepreneurial outlook and a collaborative leadership style, we invite you to bring your ideas and experience to YRCAS. **Your opportunity to make a difference** **Guide financial strategy and stewardship** Provide the insight, discipline, and direction that help YRCAS navigate a complex funding environment and plan confidently for the future. * Lead financial planning, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, controllership, auditing, internal controls, and financial risk management. * Develop short- and long-term financial strategies aligned with the Society’s goals, legislation, and Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services requirements. * Lead and resource the Finance team, strengthening the policies, cost controls, tools, and systems that support informed decisions. * Direct annual budgeting and financial planning, monitor results, and assess performance against budgets and the long-term strategic plan. * Engage and advise the CEO and Senior Leadership Team, Finance Committee of the Board and other board Committees on issues, trends and changes in the funding model(s), provincial activities, and operational impacts as well as on cost and expenditures control/deviations, significant budget variances, and extraordinary financial activity. * Interpret Ministry funding and reporting guidelines; oversee statutory, Board, and Ministry reporting; and approve financial