About Avana
Avana is a growing real estate development and property management company committed to creating safe, vibrant, and inclusive communities where residents feel proud to call home. We develop, build, and manage thoughtfully designed rental communities with a strong focus on quality, resident experience, and community growth. Our workplace culture is rooted in collaboration, accountability, and shared success.
About The Role
The Director, Treasury & Business Intelligence leads Avana’s treasury, financing, financial planning, investment analysis, business intelligence, and related financial risk activities. As the senior leader of the function, the Director establishes strategy and standards, approves methodologies and recommendations, provides executive-level advice, and ensures the organization has reliable insight and sufficient financial capacity to execute its plans. The Director is accountable for the quality and effectiveness of the function and leads the Manager, Finance and assigned team members. The role translates financial and operating information into clear recommendations concerning liquidity, financing, capital allocation, development, portfolio performance, and enterprise risk.
Schedule: Monday to Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (on-site)
What You’ll Do
Treasury, Cash Flow and Liquidity
- Establish and lead Avana’s corporate treasury, liquidity, reserve, credit facility, and capital deployment framework.
- Review and approve cash flow assumptions, liquidity forecasts, and funding priorities, while preparing recommended actions to executive leadership.
- Assess short- and long-term liquidity requirements and advise executive leadership on financial capacity, timing, and risk.
- Maintain appropriate treasury-related banking relationships and oversee the effective administration of treasury processes.
- Recommend investment strategies for excess cash within approved risk and liquidity parameters.
Financing and Lender Administration
- Working with executive direction, lead Avana’s financing strategy, annual financing plan, debt structure, lender selection, and negotiation approach.
- Working with executive direction, lead major financing, refinancing, renewal, construction lending, and borrowing decisions.
- Approve financing models, underwriting assumptions, lender submissions, and recommendations before external distribution or executive presentation.
- Support senior relationships with lenders, CMHC, brokers, quantity surveyors, and other financial partners.
- Oversee and monitor processes to manage debt maturities, covenants, interest-rate exposure, and refinancing risk, and direct corrective action where required.
Financial Planning and Analysis
- Own Avana’s integrated cash flow planning framework, key assumptions, and scenario methodology, combining operating, financing and related information to ensure a clear view of cash flow status and future requirements.
- Lead long-term scenario planning, stress testing, and analysis of growth, funding, and financial growth and sustainability.
- Challenge operating, development, construction, and financing assumptions to ensure forecasts reflect current plans and risks.
- Identify emerging trends, risks, and opportunities and direct deeper analysis where required.
- Approve consolidated forecasts and provide clear recommendations to executive leadership.
Development, Investment, and Capital Allocation
- Apply underwriting standards, return expectations, risk parameters, and decision criteria for analysis of developments, acquisitions, dispositions, and major capital investments.
- Review and challenge project assumptions, funding structures, sensitivities, returns, and downside risks.
- Provide the final Finance recommendation for material investment and development decisions to executive leadership.
- Monitor portfolio and project performance against approved business cases and direct corrective recommendations.
- Present investment analysis and capital allocation recommendations to executive leadership and ownership, as required.
Business Intelligence and Performance Reporting
- Set the business intelligence roadmap, performance reporting standards, KPI framework, and data governance expectations.
- Determine the financial and operational insights required by executive leadership and the business.
- Interpret enterprise, portfolio, development, leasing, and operating performance and convert findings into actionable recommendations.
- Lead cross-functional performance discussions and ensure accountability for agreed actions.
- Sponsor reporting, data warehouse, dashboard, and business system initiatives that improve decision quality and efficiency.
Risk, Insurance, and Funding Programs
- Develop and lead our corporate approach to financial risk identification, assessment, mitigation, and reporting.
- Approve risk priorities, insurance strategy, coverage recommendations, and material risk responses.
- Lead significant insurance negotiations and oversee broker performance, claims management, and renewal strategy.
- Make recommendations to executive leadership on participation in CMHC, municipal, grant, and other government funding programs and oversee compliance with material obligations.
- Report significant financial, covenant, insurance, or funding risks to executive leadership.
Executive Advice and External Relationships
- Serve as a trusted financial advisor to the Vice President, Corporate Services and executive leadership.
- Present financing, liquidity, investment, performance, and risk recommendations in a clear and decision-ready format.
- Represent Avana in senior discussions with lenders, advisors, insurers, government bodies, and other external partners, as required.
- Ensure external commitments align with approved strategy, authority levels, and corporate objectives.
Leadership and Functional Direction
- Lead the Treasury and Business Intelligence function and establish its strategy, priorities, service standards, work plans, and performance expectations.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and performance direction to the Manager, Finance and support the development of the broader team.
- Allocate resources, approve work plans, resolve cross-functional issues, and ensure the team’s outputs are accurate, timely, and effective.
- Build effective partnerships with executive leaders, the Controller, and operating and development teams while maintaining clear accountability.
What You Bring
- A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in treasury, corporate finance, commercial lending, real estate finance, or a related field.
- Post-secondary education in finance, accounting, business, economics, or a related field.
- A recognized professional accounting or finance designation is preferred
- Demonstrated experience leading people, major financing initiatives, strategic analysis, and executive-level recommendations.
- Advanced capability with financial models, reporting platforms, data tools, and business systems.
- Strategic treasury, financing, capital planning, and financial analysis expertise.
- Strong knowledge of commercial real estate, development finance, lender and CMHC requirements, debt structuring, and financial risk.
- Demonstrated ability to challenge assumptions, exercise sound judgement, and translate analysis into executive recommendations.
- Strong leadership, coaching, communication, negotiation, and relationship-management capability.
- Ability to establish practical governance, repeatable processes, and clear accountability across functions.
- Commitment to integrity, quality, professionalism, innovation, and proactive leadership.
Why Join Avana
- Competitive salary and annual bonus opportunities.
- Comprehensive health and dental benefits with 80% employer-paid premiums.
- Employer matched pension plan starting after one year of employment.
- Vacation entitlement starting at 20 business days annually.
- Parental leave top-up program for eligible employees.
- Opportunities to build your career through ongoing training, development, and advancement within Avana.
- Collaborative, inclusive, and values-driven work environment.
- The opportunity to lead Avana’s Treasury and Business Intelligence function, advise executive leadership, and shape financing, investment, and capital allocation decisions that support sustainable growth.
Applications close on Monday, November 23, 2026. 
