Worker Type: Employee
Job Post End Date: 07/15/2026
About this opportunity:
The Manager, Finance Center of Excellence (COE) is responsible for leading and advancing a high-performing Finance COE that drives enterprise value through process optimization, automation, analytics, and the adoption of emerging technologies. This role serves as a transformation leader, establishing strategy, governance, and standards while ensuring initiatives are effectively prioritized and delivered to maximize business value and impact. Operating through influence and strong cross-functional partnerships, the Manager drives the continuous evolution of Finance capabilities, with a focus on enhancing efficiency, generating deeper insights, and enabling scalable, sustainable solutions.
What you’ll do:
Identify and assess emerging technologies, tools, and practices to drive innovation and value across Finance and analytics
Define and evolve future-state Finance processes and ways of working enabled by data, automation, and analytics
Translate business objectives into a prioritized portfolio of initiatives, making trade-offs to maximize value with clear outcomes and success metrics
Lead COE governance, including intake, prioritization, sequencing, and value tracking; contribute to and influence key governance forums
Partner with stakeholders to identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, and ensure alignment to business needs and value
Provide oversight to initiatives, ensuring alignment to scope, objectives, and expected outcomes, and track performance through KPIs
Establish standards for data, reporting, and analytics while enabling adoption through training, sustainment, and change support
Build strong cross-functional relationships, collaborate with technology teams, and lead and develop a high-performing analytics team while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
Who you are:
Our ideal candidate will have the following minimum requirements:
Legally authorized to work in Canada
Post secondary degree in a related discipline with a minimum of 12 years of relevant experience, or equivalent professional experience
Demonstrated leadership and project/program management experience
Strong understanding of enterprise systems and data, with exposure to analytics and automation tools
Demonstrated success in delivering complex, technology-enabled business change initiatives
Experience with system implementations and integrations, including test strategy development and execution
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence business and technical audiences
Excellent organizational and prioritization skills, with the ability to manage competing demands
Highly collaborative leader who thrives in complex, cross-functional environments
Ability to remain composed and effective under pressure and through periods of change
Demonstrated ability to set clear direction, make sound decisions, and coach teams through ambiguity
Note: The application deadline for this position is 11:59 PM MT July 14, 2026.
Cenovus was ranked one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025. We’re committed to being an employer of choice in our industry by offering a competitive total rewards package and employee programs and rewarding career development opportunities. Learn more.
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Who we are:
Ranked as one of Canada’s Best Employers in 2025, Cenovus is an integrated energy company headquartered in Calgary. We’re committed to maximizing value by developing our assets in a safe, responsible and cost-efficient manner. We operate in Canada, the United States and the Asia Pacific region. Our operations include oil sands projects in northern Alberta, thermal and conventional crude oil and natural gas projects across Western Canada, crude oil production offshore Newfoundland and Labrador and natural gas and liquids production offshore China and Indonesia. Cenovus’s downstream operations include upgrading, refining and marketing operations in Canada and the United States.
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The Cenovus experience
Total rewards
We’re committed to being an employer of choice through competitive compensation and our comprehensive total rewards package, including:
Paid vacation (including a flex day program for eligible staff)
Health & dental benefits
Substantial mental health coverage
Life insurance
Disability benefits
Employee family assistance
Virtual healthcare coverage
Our development philosophy
We foster a culture of continuous learning and development to support employees as they build meaningful careers. We offer a variety of employee development initiatives, including:
Internal course offerings
Education assistance for additional development
Opportunities to work on special projects
Leadership development programs for emerging and established leaders
We actively promote internal job movement, recognizing the value of gaining new perspectives, building connections across teams, and applying expertise in new ways. As a fully integrated energy company, we believe that sharing knowledge across our business and operations creates stronger outcomes—for employees and for the company as a whole.
Our culture
Cenovus Cares: We believe in the power of purpose-driven work. Our Employee Giving and Volunteering Program, Cenovus Cares , connects our people to our purpose, inspiring action and elevating impact year-round.
Support causes you care about with volunteer opportunities in and outside of work.
Earn donation grants while volunteering (up to $1,000 per event).
Receive donation matching up to $25,000 annually.
Equal opportunity employer
We believe a workplace where everyone has merit-based opportunities to grow, achieve career aspirations and feel a sense of belonging benefits our people, our company and the regions where we live and work. We embrace and encourage different perspectives and approaches, which help us make better business decisions. We believe that through this approach, we can solve challenges, seize opportunities and unlock innovative solutions.
To achieve an unbiased and respectful workplace, individuals are evaluated based on qualifications, merit and abilities, and we encourage applications from all qualified candidates. We also acknowledge the value of transferrable skills and may consider equivalent combinations of experience and education should you not meet a specific requirement.
For more information about working at Cenovus, visit cenovus.com .
The requirements of this posting may be modified to support business needs. Title and compensation administration will be based on the skills and capabilities of the successful incumbent.
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