Assistant Controller
- Montreal, QC, Canada
Full-time
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Job details
- Job type
- Full-time
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- Experience
- Minimum 4 years of relevant accounting or finance experience
- Posting language
- English
- Posted
Original job description
Our client 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
- Experience with SAP is an asset
More about this job
Responsibilities
Support financial close, reporting, reconciliations, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting, inventory valuation, and cash flow management. Strengthen controls and compliance, coordinate audits, partner with operational teams, and contribute to ERP optimization, reporting automation, KPI development, and business 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 financial reporting, month-end close, budgeting, forecasting, and cash flow management, along with strong analytical skills and a proactive, hands-on approach; 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
- SAP
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- Accounting
- Finance
- Financial Statements
- Financial Reporting
- Month-End Close
- Year-End Close
- Consolidations
- Cash Flow Reporting
- 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