Senior Business Investments Advisor Full-time Job

Are you passionate about driving strategic growth through data-driven insights and investment planning? We’re looking for a Senior Business Investments Advisor to join our dynamic Strategy & Planning team at BC Ferries. This is a high-impact role that will directly contribute to the formation, prioritization and execution of our strategic plan, helping us shape the future of our business.

As a key member of this team, the Senior Business Investments Advisor will act as a bridge between operations and finance. In this capacity, you will embed closely with senior leaders in operations and back office functions to understand their business and the strategic outcomes (imperatives) that they are attempting to drive forward.  Through these relationships you will assist in identifying methods to translate operational KPI improvement into anticipated revenue or cost benefits, partnering with the business owner and finance to table robust business cases with quantified value.  

The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in contributing to the creation and formation of business case development tied to our strategic imperatives and support evolution of our enterprise investment prioritization approach.

 

The Role

Reporting to the Manager, Strategy & Business Planning, you will have the following areas of focus:

• Supporting annual business planning and execution via the formulation of business cases to support select strategic imperatives and initiatives;
• Working closely with senior leaders and business owners to understand their improvement ideas and assist in translating them into concrete business cases, inclusive of OPEX/CAPEX investments and quantified benefit statements;
• Partner closely with corporate finance, assisting their annual financial planning and capital management processes via strengthened business contributions;
• Encouraging and empowering improved business case development within the business by developing and maintaining a reference guide of common unit cost reduction or unit margin figures that can be leveraged by improvement opportunities to rapidly create and assess draft proposals;
• Supporting the design, implementation, and sustainment of the company’s forward-looking investment prioritization and decision-making framework and planning processes;
• Establishing a consistent, comparable definition of value to enable objective evaluation and prioritization of diverse investment opportunities;

What you bring to the team

• 5+ years of experience leading and supporting business case development and investment prioritization initiatives, ensuring alignment to measurable financial and operational outcomes. Including direct experience in:
  • Developing a strong understanding of core business cost structures and revenue drivers to inform investment decisions
  • Translating operational KPI improvements into financial impacts (cost savings, revenue growth, risk mitigation)
  • Assessing CAPEX and OPEX requirements to evaluate total investment value and return
  • Designing and implementing investment prioritization and selection frameworks to optimize and balance the overall investment project portfolio
• 5+ years of experience partnering with, presenting to, and advising a Senior Leadership team (Director level and above) on investment decisions in a mid-to-large size corporate environment
• Extremely comfortable with financial concepts and stakeholders, including partnering closely with corporate finance functions
• Ability to operate independently; given requirements and functional objectives, able to conceive and propose recommended solutions and then work to directly or through stakeholders to implement
• Experience working in a management consulting or equivalent environment is an asset
• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Commerce, Finance or related field
• Certification in Finance, including CFA and/or CPA is an asset
• Master's Degree in Business Administration is an asset
• Deep experience in MS Excel and PowerPoint
• Familiarity with finance systems and tools.

We're proud to be one of the largest ferry systems in the world, serving 1,600 km of coastline and moving over 62,000 customers and 23,000 vehicles on average each day.
BC Ferries acknowledges and respects the territories of Indigenous peoples on whose beautiful lands and waters that our ships, offices, terminals, and work sites operate along the Pacific West Coast.
For 65 years, we have been dedicated to providing safe and efficient travel to our customers.
Our role as a ferry transportation provider goes beyond getting passengers from point A to B. With 25 routes throughout the west coast of BC, we serve as advocates for the coastal environment and communities where we operate.
Operations began in 1960 with just two ferries providing service on a single route. Today we have 37 ferries moving more than 22.7 million passengers and 9.7 million vehicles every year.