Beware of finance department - Finance Manager BGIS Employee Review

- Very high workload (16 hour days common). This wasn't advertised during the interview or hiring process. - Some parts of management who felt that tearing people down was somehow going to improve things. I had two managers, one whose feedback was 80% negative and the other whose feedback was 99% positive. I received 100% positive feedback from the VP finance but the director told me I needed to "own" my job but gave me no real concrete actionable guidance when I asked how and what I should do. I think there was just a lot of people hired willy nilly who were poor people managers due to lack of experience. - My first interview (the phone interview) was for a different position then the second interview. They just didn't seem to care about the position I was filling. I think they just wanted to get a human in there ASAP and then hope and pray that it worked out. I interviewed once and it was frankly a really easy interview , especially for a management position. - Everyone says that Gord Hicks is amazing. What I saw was a very nice and charismatic man who chose and supported a CFO who was clearly unable to relate well ( at the level expected of an executive) with the rest of the organization. I met the CFO and had a lot of second hand comments from other parts of the org (Engineering, my employee's, my managers, Project managers, Client groups etc.) and virtually everyone disliked or were ambivalent about that CFO. Gord could have solved that problem long ago. - I had multiple managers and multiple jobs almost totally disconnected from each other. It's hard to please two or three masters, especially when they all expect you to do a full days work for them. - No objectives provided from my managers until I basically ordered the director to give them to me. The training BGIS provides for orientation touts that everyone gets objectives almost immediately. My managers could have cared less about that. - Mickey Mouse hiring practices lead to hiring anyone with a cpa and a decent resume who could fog a mirror into management roles. I am a product of this process, was never a manager and then all of a sudden made a manager of multiple people with multiple lines of business to support. - Manager who attempted reneging on our negotiated , written, contract by attempting to have me cancel my vacation and failing that tried to have me work on my vacation. I told them about this vacation from the first recruiter contact right through to the offer signing. However when my vacation came up my manager acted as if she had no idea and demanded I produce written proof, which I did. - Insanely behind on technology and thus inefficient. They know this but seem to be somewhat clueless on executing a long term coherent strategy to resolve the issue. 50% of my job was basically being a data janitor. Fixing spreadsheets, manually approving other peoples manually approved work etc. I had no time to spend improving processes because the processes were so inefficient.