Controller
- Montreal, QC, Canada
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Original job description
We’re seeking a Controller to join our client's high-performing finance team for a six-month contract in a role that goes beyond traditional accounting and reporting.
This opportunity is ideal for a bilingual finance professional with strong technical accounting, IFRS, controllership, and governance experience who enjoys partnering with senior leaders and influencing key business decisions.
What you’ll do:
- Lead and support month-end reporting activities
- Provide technical accounting guidance on complex business matters
- Perform variance analysis and deliver insightful financial commentary
- Strengthen governance, controls, and compliance
- Partner with Finance, Operations, Commercial, Legal, and Tax teams
- Support audit matters and finance transformation initiatives
- Drive process improvement, simplification, and automation
What you bring:
- CPA or equivalent professional accounting qualification
- Strong technical accounting and financial reporting expertise
- Experience applying IFRS in complex environments
- Strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity
- Fluency in French and English, written and spoken
What success looks like: You’ll help drive better business decisions, strengthen governance, deliver high-quality reporting, and balance technical excellence with practical business outcomes.
If you’re a curious, proactive, bilingual finance professional looking for your next contract opportunity, we’d love to connect.
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Responsibilities
Lead month-end reporting, provide technical accounting guidance, analyze variances, and deliver financial commentary. Strengthen governance, controls, and compliance while partnering across business functions and supporting audits, finance transformation, and process improvement.
Requirements
Requires a CPA or equivalent accounting qualification and strong technical accounting and financial reporting expertise, including experience applying IFRS in complex environments. Candidates should have strong analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills, be able to work independently amid ambiguity, and be fluent in written and spoken French and English.
Skills
- Technical Accounting
- IFRS
- Financial Reporting
- Month-End Reporting
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Commentary
- Controllership
- Governance
- Internal Controls
- Compliance
- Audit Support
- Finance Transformation
- Process Improvement
- Automation
- Stakeholder Management
- French-English Fluency
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
Keywords
- CPA
- IFRS
- Technical Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- Month-End Reporting
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Commentary
- Controllership
- Governance
- Controls
- Compliance
- Audit
- Finance Transformation
- Process Improvement
- Simplification
- Automation
- Stakeholder Management
- French
- English
- Finance
- Operations
- Commercial
- Legal
- Tax