{"id":491704,"date":"2026-02-22T08:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491704\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T08:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T08:56:42","slug":"city-of-mississauga-announces-director-of-finance-and-deputy-treasurer-city-of-mississauga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/491704\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Mississauga announces Director of Finance and Deputy Treasurer \u2013 City of Mississauga"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Faraz Agha will be responsible for leading corporate business planning, the budget process, the City\u2019s Long-Range Financial Plan, and city-wide financial services like accounts payable, investment management, accounting and financial reporting, and revenue and taxation.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Following a competitive recruitment process, the City of Mississauga has appointed Faraz Agha as the Director of Finance and Deputy Treasurer effective October 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In this role, Agha reports to the Commissioner of Corporate Services, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, and will oversee all business functions of the Finance Division. He will be responsible for leading corporate business planning, the budget process, the City\u2019s Long-Range Financial Plan, and City-wide financial services like accounts payable, investment management, accounting and financial reporting, and revenue and taxation.<\/p>\n<p>Agha has more than 30 years of experience in both the public and private sectors and has been with the City of Mississauga since 2015 managing the Business Services and Process Solutions team, and the Budget Planning and Reporting team. In this role, he has provided strategic financial guidance across all City service areas and led organization-wide process improvement initiatives. Prior to that, Agha served as a Manager in the Controllership unit at the Ministry of Community and Social Services. Agha started his career in progressive financial roles in organizations such as CIBC, Grey Worldwide and TE Industries.<\/p>\n<p>Agha holds a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA) designation and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) with a specialization in Finance.<\/p>\n<p>Quotes<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m pleased to welcome Faraz to the role of Director of Finance and Deputy Treasurer. He brings extensive experience in budgeting, financial reporting, accounting, systems support and risk management. In his role as Director, he will apply his knowledge and expertise to the City\u2019s budget process while providing efficient and effective financial services and advice to Council, senior leadership and staff.\u201d \u2013 Marisa Chiu, Commissioner of Corporate Services, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am pleased to step into this new role and look forward to working closely with all of the Finance Division teams, as well as senior leaders and Mayor and Council to deliver, support and implement the City\u2019s budget along with key corporate initiatives and strategies across the organization.\u201d \u2013 Faraz Agha, Director of Finance and Deputy Treasurer<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"image-link-wrapper\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mississauga.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/08110833\/FarazAgha.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-137805\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/FarazAgha-168x219.jpeg\" alt=\"Faraz Agha\" width=\"168\" height=\"219\"  \/><\/a>Faraz Agha, Director of Finance and Deputy Treasurer, City of Mississauga<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t                                    Tags&#13;<br \/>\n                                    &#13;<\/p>\n<p>    Media contact<\/p>\n<p>City of Mississauga Media Relations<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mississauga.ca\/city-of-mississauga-news\/news\/city-of-mississauga-announces-director-of-finance-and-deputy-treasurer\/mailto:media@mississauga.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">media@mississauga.ca<\/a><br \/>905-615-3200, ext.\u00a05232<br \/>TTY:\u00a0905-896-5151<br \/><a class=\"newsnews\" href=\"https:\/\/preferences.enewsmississauga.ca\/subscribe?category=City%20of%20Mississauga\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Get email updates<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Faraz Agha will be responsible for leading corporate business planning, the budget process, the City\u2019s Long-Range Financial Plan,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194297],"tags":[49,48,55405],"class_list":{"0":"post-491704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mississauga","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mississauga"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}