Assistant Controller
- Montreal, QC, Canada
$100,000 to $115,000 CAD / year · Full-time
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Job details
- Pay
- $100,000 to $115,000 CAD / year
- Job type
- Full-time
- Apply by
- Experience
- Minimum 4 years of relevant accounting or finance experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Our client, a growing pharmaceutical organization, is seeking an Assistant Controller to join its finance team. This is a hands-on role offering broad exposure across accounting, financial reporting, operations, and business partnering. The successful candidate will work closely with senior leadership and play a key role in supporting the company's continued growth and process improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Support month-end and year-end close processes, including preparation of financial statements, cash flow reporting, and consolidations
- Oversee balance sheet reconciliations, journal entries, and financial analysis
- Lead budgeting, forecasting, cash flow forecasting, and variance analysis
- Perform and oversee cost accounting activities, inventory valuation, and profitability analysis
- Manage fixed assets, inventory accounting, and other general accounting functions
- Maintain and strengthen internal controls, accounting policies, and compliance procedures
- Coordinate external audits and support tax and regulatory reporting requirements
- Partner with operations and sales teams to provide financial insights and support decision-making
- Participate in ERP optimization initiatives, reporting automation, and KPI development
- Support CAPEX and OPEX reporting and monitor business performance metrics
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance
- Minimum 4 years of relevant accounting or finance experience
- Experience with financial reporting, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter with a proactive, resourceful, and hands-on approach
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced and evolving environment
- Bilingual in French and English
- Experience with SAP is an asset
More about this job
Responsibilities
Support financial close, reporting, consolidations, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, cash flow management, cost accounting, and inventory valuation. Strengthen controls and compliance, coordinate audits and regulatory reporting, partner with business teams, and contribute to ERP optimization, automation, KPI development, and performance monitoring.
Requirements
A bachelor's degree in Accounting or Finance and at least four years of relevant accounting or finance experience are required. Candidates should have experience in reporting, close processes, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management, along with strong analytical skills, a proactive hands-on approach, and the ability to work in a fast-paced environment; French and English bilingualism is required, and SAP experience is an asset.
Skills
- Financial Reporting
- Month-End Close
- Year-End Close
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Cash Flow Management
- Variance Analysis
- Cost Accounting
- Inventory Valuation
- Profitability Analysis
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Internal Controls
- External Audits
- ERP Optimization
- Financial Analysis
- Business Partnering
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
- Healthcare
- Data & Analytics
Keywords
- Pharmaceutical
- Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Month-End Close
- Year-End Close
- Financial Statements
- Cash Flow Reporting
- Consolidations
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Journal Entries
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Variance Analysis
- Cost Accounting
- Inventory Valuation
- Fixed Assets
- Internal Controls
- Accounting Policies
- Compliance
- External Audits
- Tax Reporting
- Regulatory Reporting
- ERP Optimization
- Reporting Automation
- KPI Development
- CAPEX
- OPEX
- SAP
- French
- English