Director Business Planning, Agency

Description:

The Director, Business Planning is customer focused and interacts at the most senior levels of the health authority recognizing and balancing organization-wide and agency perspectives. The Director provides financial expertise in an environment that constantly changes and must be able to assist with decision-making in the context of limited resources.

The Director has a comprehensive multi-layered understanding of financial and business planning processes and tool, skills in staff training and leadership, and works independently in a strategic capacity. Timelines for the completion of financial and operational reports are very tight and require strong organizational skills.

Reports, analyses, advice and recommendations prepared/provided by this position are used by senior executive in the PHSA, the agency and the Ministry of Health (MOH). Judgement is required to assess resource requirements for the agency, programs and departments, the reasonableness of resource requests and in the communication of those requirements. Errors or miscommunication could result in inadequate agency funding, program or departmental funding, reducing agency or corporate credibility, incorrect payments to physicians or their employers, other suppliers and service providers, under recovery or loss of funding.

Major segments of the work performed by this position are confidential directly supporting the management committees of both the PHSA and the agency. Inappropriate release of information could compromise strategies and initiatives and seriously impact the agency’s and the PHSA’s abilities to deliver its mandate.

Communications

The Director, Business Planning communicates with senior staff at the corporate level and senior and line staff of the agency. The Director is an active member of the agency’s management committee and other committees deemed necessary by the agency President or Executive Director or the Corporate Director, Business Planning. Communication usually involves negotiating and facilitating consensus on issues such as financial resources, program and service delivery changes, new and enhanced programs, physician services and funding, operational reviews, implementation of services and progress on cost savings/revenue generation initiatives.
External communication involves contact with representatives from external agencies such as the MOH and other health authorities and usually involves negotiating and facilitating consensus on issues such as program transfers, development of inter-authority programs and services, service redesign and operational reviews.