# Bilingual IT Finance and Capacity Specialist

Permanent, full-time | Hybrid | Ottawa, ON or Montréal, QC | Limited travel | Bilingual (CBC: reading, writing, speaking) | Reliability clearance required | Salary: $86,816.59–$108,520.74

## About the Role

This role sits within the IT Performance and Partnerships team and focuses on planning, analyzing, and optimizing IT capacity, budgets, and workforce resource use. Its purpose is to ensure the organization has the right skills, talent, and funding at the right time.

The position combines IT financial management, budget planning, resource capacity modelling, workforce analysis, and workforce intelligence. It supports IT strategy execution by helping the organization understand capacity needs, financial performance, and cost drivers.

The role works across IT, Finance, and Human Resources, and requires strong collaboration with senior stakeholders to interpret complex data and support decision-making.

## Key Responsibilities

– Assess workforce and IT capacity by comparing supply and demand, usage trends, and future workload forecasts.
– Own planning, tracking, analysis, and reporting for all IT financial resources.
– Monitor operating and capital IT budgets, track performance against approved targets, and analyze cost drivers, trends, and risks.
– Coordinate and support annual operating and capital budget development by consolidating input from across IT.
– Track budgets monthly and quarterly across all IT cost centres, including labour, software, hardware, cloud services, maintenance, telecommunications, security, and project spend.
– Analyze IT cost structures to identify major drivers related to labour, licences, infrastructure, cloud consumption, cybersecurity, and vendor services.

## Required Skills

– Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, human resources, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
– At least 5 years of experience in financial budget management and analysis, workforce planning, capacity management, or a related analytical role.
– Strong understanding of IT functions, roles, capabilities, and operating models.
– Ability to influence and partner with IT leadership, Human Resources, and Finance.
– Ability to interpret complex workforce and financial data for senior audiences.
– Ability to manage sensitive workforce and performance-related situations.
– Strong stakeholder engagement, facilitation, and communication skills in both French and English.
– Bilingual proficiency at the CBC level.

## Preferred Skills

– Experience in organizational development, employee engagement, or planning tools.
– Advanced Microsoft Excel and Power BI skills.
– Experience analyzing complex datasets, building dashboards and reports, and turning data into actionable insights for operational, financial, and strategic decisions.

## Cloud Platforms & Technologies

– Cloud services
– Microsoft Excel
– Power BI

## FinOps Responsibilities

– Track and report on IT operating and capital budgets.
– Monitor IT cost centres across labour, software, hardware, cloud services, maintenance, telecommunications, security, and project spending.
– Analyze cost drivers, trends, and risks across IT spending.
– Support annual budget planning and monthly/quarterly budget tracking.
– Review cost structures related to cloud consumption, infrastructure, cybersecurity, licences, and vendor services.
– Assess capacity and workload demand to support resource planning and financial decisions.

## Benefits

– Paid annual vacation
– Annual individual performance bonus
– Defined benefit pension plan
– Comprehensive group insurance coverage from day one
– Training and mentoring to support personal and professional growth

## Why You Might Be Interested

This role offers the chance to work at the intersection of IT finance, workforce planning, and capacity management. It is suited to someone who wants to support budget planning, analyze complex cost and workforce data, and help guide decisions for senior stakeholders. The position also provides exposure to both operating and capital IT budgets, including cloud-related spend, in a bilingual environment. For candidates who value cross-functional collaboration and data-driven planning, it has a broad and business-critical scope.