Senior Consultant, Strategy Decision Support

TL;DR

Senior Consultant, Strategy Decision Support: Managing strategic planning and decision-support initiatives for a university, with an accent on financial health, operational effectiveness, and complex multi-stakeholder analysis. Focus on building cohesive strategic plans, developing financial models and scenarios, and translating complex data into clear recommendations for senior leadership.

Location: hirify.global Vancouver Campus - Vancouver, BC, Canada

Salary: $7,622.83 - $11,886.67 CAD Monthly

Company

hirify.global provides in-house advisory services to support university strategy, financial health, and operational effectiveness.

What you will do

• Manage strategic planning projects in a multi-stakeholder environment, including facilitation, consensus building, synthesis of insights, and delivery of cohesive strategic plans.
• Lead complex projects across strategy, financial health, and operational effectiveness, including developing project plans (scope, budget, schedule, performance measures) and ensuring delivery within agreed constraints.
• Conduct multi-source research, validate and reconcile data across sources, and distill findings into strategic insights and decision-support recommendations.
• Build and maintain analytical and financial models (including scenarios and sensitivity studies) and produce forecasts and board-ready reporting.
• Partner with academic and administrative units to improve business processes and operational effectiveness using metrics and performance analysis.
• Plan and execute consulting workstreams, facilitate workshops/interviews, and coordinate work of consultants/shirify.globalontractors and cross-organizational project teams (up to 6 people).

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Completion of the CPA accounting program (CA, CGA, or CMA).
• Minimum 7 years of related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong strategic planning, analytical, and project planning experience in complex stakeholder environments.
• Advanced skills with computer software applications, primarily Excel and Microsoft tools, including complex spreadsheets and business intelligence/data warehousing concepts.
• Ability to work accurately with complex data under pressure, meet deadlines, and communicate effectively in writing and verbally.

Nice to have

• Master’s degree in a relevant discipline (e.g., Economics, Commerce, Business Administration, or Engineering) and/or an MBA.
• Experience in a related business or financial role with similar scope and accountability.
• Experience in financial modeling and business process improvement.

Culture & Benefits

• Office-based work environment with frequent deadlines across multiple projects.
• Opportunity to work on institution-wide, high-impact strategic initiatives aligned with university leadership direction.
• Collaborative, stakeholder-driven work requiring respectful and inclusive engagement.
• Project-based cross-organizational teams and responsibility for managing resources and workload.

Hiring process

• Interviews and facilitated sessions, including workshops and discussions with stakeholders.
• Assessment of strategic planning, analytical, and decision-support capabilities through role-relevant evaluation.