Director, Finance Transformation & Systems

Our employees are at the heart of everything we do. Together, we help people, businesses, and society prosper in good times and be resilient in bad times.

Our employee promise represents Intact’s commitment to you in exchange for living our Values, striving to do your best work, being open to change and investing in your career. In return, we promise to provide support, opportunities and performance-led financial rewards at a workplace where you can shape the future, win as a team and grow with us.

Pay at Intact is about much more than just salary.

• Flexible work arrangements and a hybrid work model

• Possibility to purchase up to 5 extra days off per year

• Multiple benefits offered to support physical and mental wellbeing, including telemedicine, Wellness account and much more

• Share plan & other savings: up to 12% of salary or even more (ask how you could earn guaranteed income for life)

Salary range (but not limited to):

149,600 - 182,800

Annual bonus target, based on the base salary, with a potential payout of up to double the target (subject to personal and company performance):

20%

As part of our commitment to Win As A Team, we share our success with employees through our annual bonus plan and Employee Share Purchase Plan (ESPP) – with Intact matching 50% of your net shares.

Our pension offerings provide flexibility and long-term security for our employees beyond their careers. We are one of the few companies offering the opportunity to receive guaranteed income for life via our defined benefit pension plan.

Salary for the candidate will be determined taking into consideration a number of factors including: experience, skills, qualifications, anticipated contribution to role, internal equity, etc. The salary range presented above is based on a 35-hour workweek and would represent a majority of different candidate profiles. However, we encourage candidates who may fall outside of this range to apply as well.

About the role

Lead transformational finance systems and data initiatives, partnering across Finance, IT, Operations and Planning. You’ll co-own the finance systems roadmap and drive end-to-end delivery—turning business needs into modern, scalable, supportable solutions—while ensuring strong governance, testing/UAT discipline, and successful adoption.

What You’ll Do:

Strategy & Roadmap

• Co-develop the long-term Finance systems roadmap aligned to business strategy, regulatory requirements, and data capabilities.

• Assess emerging technology and data capabilities to improve efficiency, controls, and insight.

Program Governance, Delivery & Execution

• Partner with project managers to define scope, milestones, success metrics, and change control; establish clear decision rights and manage RAID (risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies).

• Lead resource planning, effort estimation, and budgeting with Finance Transformation peers, IT, Operations and Planning.

• Own business requirements, functional specifications, test strategy, UAT execution, and defect triage/prioritization for finance systems projects.

• Serve as the primary liaison between Finance and IT for end-to-end delivery.

Stakeholder Partnership & Change

• Partner with leaders to evaluate impacts to external reporting, KPIs, processes, and team structures.

• Drive change management, communications, and training to ensure organization-wide adoption.

• Support Finance teams with day-to-day issues and continuous improvement.

Growth, Efficiency & Optimization

• Advance initiatives that improve data quality, process efficiency, control, and insight generation across Finance.

• Enable corporate growth and optimization through fit-for-purpose systems and data solutions.

Technical Abilities & Data Understanding

• Strong end-to-end systems understanding, including upstream/downstream dependencies and controls.

• Ability to translate complex requirements into functional/technical specifications, including source-to-target mappings.

• Trusted liaison with IT/Data/Architecture teams to shape designs and manage delivery.

• Hands-on leadership of test strategy, UAT planning, data validation, and defect management.

• Understanding of financial data controls, reconciliations, and regulatory/reporting requirements (e.g., IFRS).

• Assets: SAS (IFRS17/IFRS9), SQL, data profiling, insurance experience, IFRS 17 exposure.

What You Bring:

• Minimum education: Bachelor’s degree in finance, Business/Management (MBA) or equivalent, CPA is a strong asset.

• Minimum 8–years relevant experience, including at least 5 years in transformation projects, leading cross-functional programs.

• Minimum 5-years leading and managing high-performing professionals, including people managers – is required.

• Proven delivery of finance systems/data initiatives strong program/project management practices.

• Experience leading operational and business change (change management and training).

• Strong planning, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.

• Excellent written and verbal communication.

• For candidates located in Quebec, bilingualism is required considering the necessity to interact on a regular basis with English-speaking colleagues across the country and globally.

• Comfortable driving change, challenging the status quo, and influencing without authority.

Why Join Us

• Impact: Shape the finance data and systems foundation that powers decision-making, reporting, and growth.

• Visibility: Lead complex, enterprise initiatives with senior stakeholder exposure.

• Growth: Develop your leadership across strategy, delivery, data, and change.

• Purpose: Join a values-driven team focused on customers, colleagues, and communities

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Ce poste jouera un rôle essentiel au sein de notre équipe. | This position will fill an essential role in our team.

We are an equal opportunity employer

At Intact, our Value of respect is founded on seeing diversity as a strength. We strive to create an accessible workplace where employees feel valued, included and encouraged to share their unique perspectives.

We encourage applications from individuals who are members of equity-deserving groups, including but not limited to women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, Black people, and members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community.

As part of Intact’s commitment to reconciliation, we acknowledge that we work, meet and travel across the land currently called Canada, originally inhabited by First Nations, Metis and Inuit people. This history extends through many centuries and continues to evolve today.

We have policies to ensure equal access and participation for people with disabilities, including providing workplace adjustments (accommodations). A copy of applicable policies is available on request.

If we can provide a specific adjustment to make the recruitment process more accessible for you, please let us know when we reach out about a job opportunity. We’ll work with you to meet your needs.

Learn more about our recruitment process and your candidate journey here.

Please note that Intact does not provide sponsorship or other support for immigration-related matters including but not limited to employer-specific closed work permits. Candidates must be eligible to work in Canada from the anticipated start date and throughout their employment and are solely responsible for maintaining their work eligibility.

If you are an employee of Intact or belairdirect, please apply for this role on Internal Career Site.