Senior Director, Finance & Technology

Full-Time Permanent

Work Location: Applications from candidates living in Central New Brunswick, Saint John, Kings & Charlotte, Prince Edward Island, and Mainland Nova Scotia are warmly welcomed.

(Hybrid work environment: required in-office two days per week)

Application Deadline: July 20, 2026

United Way Maritimes — with teams located in and serving the regions of Central New Brunswick, Colchester & Cumberland Counties, Halifax, Lunenburg County, Pictou County, Prince Edward Island, Saint John, and Kings & Charlotte — is a for-impact organization that brings donors, volunteers, and partners together to create lasting social change.

We believe everyone matters and deserves to belong, be safe, and live a life of their choosing. To help, United Way Maritimes alleviates and reduces local poverty by funding, partnering, convening, and advocating for solutions. United Way Maritimes is part of a federated movement of 50+ United Ways across the country.

The staff at United Way Maritimes takes pride in bringing together people who have a range of experience, talents, and backgrounds.

We share a passion for each of the places we call home and bring many different skills and strengths to the work we do. Our community and social change priorities include poverty, social isolation, affordable housing, people experiencing marginalization and vulnerability, and recovery and resilience to environmental, mass casualty and public health emergencies.

We provide a supportive and flexible work environment filled with opportunity, balance, and laughter.

Reporting to the Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, the Senior Director, Finance & Technology, is a critical leadership role responsible for the organization’s financial strategy, ensuring alignment with corporate objectives, fiscal resilience, and technological modernization of the organization.

The Senior Director serves as a key functional leader, translating strategic organizational goals into strong operational practices. They must drive strong financial stewardship, accountability, planning and rigor across the organization.

The key responsibilities of the role include

• Oversight of core financial operations (e.g., operating budget, audit) and strategic decision-making based on financial analysis and forecasting.
• Building analytical models to evaluate the financial viability of new social infrastructure projects, property management operations, housing strategies, and capital campaigns.
• Developing and executing an IT strategy designed to modernize infrastructure, enhance cybersecurity defences, and support an agile, hybrid workplace with locations across the Maritimes.
• Overseeing organizational enterprise structure, steering the integration, maintenance, and data sync among specialized platforms (e.g., ERP, CRM, payroll, etc.).
• Developing and leading a high-performing finance, technology, and data team while ensuring alignment between operational execution and medium-term strategy.

Our ideal candidate is a performance-driven, people‑centered CPA with 10+ years of progressive management experience as a controller, finance director, or equivalent leadership roles. Strategic and change resilient, they are an analytical thinker with a proven ability to distill complex financial and technical information into clear, actionable insights for diverse stakeholders.

With experience in accounting and IT best practices and openness to working through complex and innovative financing models for social infrastructure projects, the ideal candidate is someone excited to identify strong finance and technology solutions to advance United Way Maritime’s mission in community.

United Way Maritimes is committed to a comprehensive compensation package including salary, group retirement savings plan contribution, health and dental benefits, generous vacation time, additional time-off during the December holiday period, and professional development and training opportunities.

The salary range for this position is $110,000-125,000. Interested candidates are encouraged to reach out to our Administrative & HR Assistant, Aleks Wilson, for a conversation about the role, salary range, and total compensation package. To contact Aleks, please email: jobs@unitedwaymaritimes.ca or call 902-298-3702.

If this sounds like you, let us know by sharing your resume and cover letter outlining why you could be the right fit for United Way Maritimes and this role. Submit your application to jobs@unitedwaymaritimes.ca by July 20, 2026, at 11:59pm (AST).

United Way Maritimes deeply values equity and is committed to ensuring our staff community reflects the diversity of the wider community.

We welcome applications from African Nova Scotian people, people of African descent, Indigenous peoples, racialized people, women, people with disabilities, people of varied sexual and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to productively engage with diverse communities.

United Way Maritimes seeks to maintain its commitment to inclusion and equity and recognizes that increasing the diversity of our staff supports this objective.

During the recruitment process, applicants have the right to request an accommodation. Applicants invited to participate in an assessment process (such as an interview or testing) and who require accommodation should discuss their needs in advance of the assessment.

Pay: $110,000.00-$125,000.00 per year

Benefits

• Company events
• Dental care
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible schedule
• On-site parking
• Paid time off
• RRSP match
• Vision care
• Work from home

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Halifax, NS