SENIOR BUSINESS INVESTMENTS ADVISOR 

Victoria or Vancouver Lower Mainland 

The Opportunity 

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;  
• Assisting in the design, implementation and support of the company's go-forward investment prioritization and decision-making framework and planning processes; helping structure how the organization aligns on a comparable definition of value that allows comparison and prioritization of dissimilar nature investments 

What you bring to the team 

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Commerce or Finance 
• Master's Degree in Business Administration is an asset 
• Experience in Finance, including certifications e.g. CPA is an asset 
• At least 5+ years working in a mid-to-large sized corporate environment 
• At least 5+ years of experience in the creation and support of business case development, investment rationalization and/or investment prioritization. Key activities included in this experience should include:
• • Developing an understanding of the business’ core cost drivers or revenue drivers 
  • Translating operational KPI improvement into cost and/or revenue drivers 
  • Assessment of capital and OPEX investments required to facilitate an investment 
  • Creation and execution of investment prioritization and selection frameworks to produce an optimized investment project portfolio 

• Experience in finance, accounting or private equity is an asset 
• Experience working in a management consulting or equivalent environment is an asset 
• Extremely comfortable with financials, including partnering closely with corporate finance functions 
• Deep experience in MS Excel, familiarity with finance systems and tools is helpful 
• 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 

Join us! 

If this sounds like your next great career move, please submit your cover letter and resume by December 9, 2025. 

Additional information 

The target salary range: $105,200 - $131,500 per annum. The starting salary is determined based on the successful candidate’s knowledge, experience and internal equity.  

"We connect communities and customers to people and places important in their lives” 

At BC Ferries, our employees are our most important assets in delivering our commitment to customer safety, service and satisfaction. We support employment equity and diversity in the workplace and we encourage applications from all qualified individuals including women, visible minorities, Indigenous Peoples, persons with disabilities, persons of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity or expression (LGBTQ2S+), and others who reflect our ever-changing workplace. 

We appreciate the interest of all applicants; however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.