Director, Regional Accounting

About our Client: Build Canada Homes (BCH) is Canada’s federal housing agency with the mandate to scale up the supply of affordable housing across the country. By leveraging public lands, deploying flexible financial tools, and acting as a catalyst for modern methods of construction, BCH is helping drive a more productive and innovative homebuilding sector. Working in partnership with non-profits, Indigenous organizations, private developers, and all orders of government, BCH is accelerating the delivery of housing Canadians need - faster, smarter, and more affordably.

Their priorities

• Leverage public lands and mobilize capital to increase housing supply.
• Accelerate large-scale affordable housing projects through partnerships.
• Advance modern methods of construction to boost productivity and lower costs.

Following Royal Assent of the Build Canada Homes Act in June 2026, BCH is in a formative stage of transition toward a Crown Corporation. This creates a meaningful opportunity to help establish the governance, accountability, legal, risk, and corporate foundations of a national mission-driven organization with significant scale, visibility, complexity, and public trust responsibilities.

This role is offers a hybrid model. They currently work 2-3 days in office and potentially 4 days in the future.

Position Scope:

The Director, Regional Accounting is responsible for providing direction and oversight to the Regional Accounting team across Build Canada Homes and its subsidiaries (collectively, the “Corporation” or “BCH”). This role partners with the Senior Director, Financial Operations and the Senior Director, Corporate Finance to achieve accurate and effective financial reporting for the business. This role is also responsible for managing the accounting for real estate, with a focus on standardizing and implementing regional processes to ensure consistency and accuracy. This role also focuses on collaborating with the Real Estate teams to enhance our relationship as a trusted business partner, providing valuable, timely financial information and support.

Responsibilities:

FINANCIAL REPORTING

• Directs the Regional Financial Accounting and Reporting function across Canada in a manner designed to safeguard assets, meet statutory and internal reporting requirements, provide timely, meaningful reporting of results and effectively plan for the financial needs of BCH.
• Responsible for the key financial inputs for real estate development projects and PDP attractions that feed BCH’s consolidated financial statements, including timely close of month-end and provision of accurate and complete financial information. Reports include annual audited financial statements (Canadian $, IFRS), as well as quarterly reporting requirements for the BCH Board.
• Responsible for the monthly, quarterly, and annual accounting and reporting work for the Regional Accounting and PDP Accounting teams including standardizing the accounting for projects and the financial reporting across the Regions.
• Responsible for the following financial information:
• Balance sheet continuity and respective accounting issues
• Accounts receivable for any long-standing outstanding balances/collection issues;
• Third party property manager reporting;
• Projects performance and potential impairment, reversal of impairments, etc;
• Unusual non-recurring transactions;
• Non-standard leases and sales.
• Responsible for the Regional Accounting and PDP Accounting group’s monthly financial reporting and variance analysis.
• Responsible for the financial reporting for BCH’s joint ventures.
• Identifies areas of process improvement and/or system opportunities to increase the accuracy and efficiency of project accounting and takes actions to implement those improvements and opportunities.
• Ensures BCH have the appropriate internal accounting controls and processes in place for the Regional Accounting and PDP Accounting teams including testing, documentation, segregation of duties and training of staff.
• Responsible for the design and implementation of a Finance onboarding program to be led by the Manager, Regional Accounting and Regional Accountants. This program will educate Project Managers on reporting tools available to keep them informed of their project’s financial performance and support their business making decisions.
• Responsible for maintaining the Executive Dashboard, including accurate and updated project information.
• Responsible for providing financial information to Real Estate Management Committee (REMCO) and Senior Management Team (SMT) for performance monitoring and other financial analysis as requested.
• Responsible for financial tables for Real Estate and PDP Board reports.

BUDGETING/FORECASTING

• Oversees the regional and PDP budget process in collaboration with Real Estate and PDP Attractions to ensure the requirements (timing, deliverables) of the Corporate Plan budget process are met.
• Manages the real estate proforma process and output across the regions.
• Co-manages the design and implementation of effective budget package for Senior Management.
• Implements and manages effective controls and processes to ensure completeness, accuracy and reasonability of project budgets.
• Oversees the regional reforecasting process during the year when required; and
• Monitors any changes in the operational activities that may have a financial impact and/or create a variance from budget/forecast.

AUDIT AND CORPORATE TAX

• Partners with the Senior Director, Financial Operations and Senior Director, Corporate Finance to complete the year-end external audits for BCH, and the Joint Ventures.
• Accountable for communicating and liaising with the Audit Team on the audit of project proformas which supports our Sales and Cost of Sales.
• Responsible for ensuring the Regional Accounting and PDP Accounting teams complete audit requests, including ‘prepared by client’ requirements and compilation of appropriate supporting documentation.
• Accountable to the Senior Director, Financial Operations for the financial schedules that support the Tax Provision and Returns as required.
• Leads or assists on internal, governmental bodies and other special audits as required.

TEAM MANAGEMENT

• Builds a motivated Regional Accounting and PDP Accounting teams capable of providing excellent, value-added services to our business partners.
• Provides leadership to the team through coaching, mentoring, staff development, resource allocation and capacity building.
• Oversees the objective setting and performance management for the Regional Accounting team.
• Promotes a positive and progressive work environment such that BCH can attract and retain top performers.
• Continually identifies and implements best practices ensuring an efficient, cost-effective Regional Accounting team with a focus on quality and client service.

RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

• Build and enhance relationships with all levels of the Real Estate Team to ensure we are adding value as a trusted business partner.
• Build a working relationship with the Acquisitions Team to support them in property acquisitions and collaborations.
• Seek value add opportunities to create efficiencies and more effectively support business partners.

OTHER

• Evaluate, implement and support technology-based business system improvements, in collaboration with Information Technology and other stakeholders.
• Leads or assists with special projects as requested by the Senior Director, Financial Operations, and or the Executive Vice President, Finance and CFO

Qualifications and Experience:

• Post-secondary degree or diploma in business, finance or accounting required.
• Professional accounting designation required (CPA, CA, CGA, CMA).
• Ten years of accounting experience, with at least five years of experience in real estate project/cost accounting required.
• Five to seven years of supervisory experience required.
• Experience in land development accounting preferred.
• Strong understanding of IFRS preferred
• Knowledge of JD Edwards and Hubble computer systems and software, an asset.
• Proficiency in Microsoft office software, and specifically Microsoft Excel spreadsheets.
• Bilingualism (English/French) is preferred.

Compensation: $132,163 - $165,000 base salary, Discretionary bonus, Health, Dental, Vision, Vacation, Personal days, Employee Family Assistance Program, Fitness Allowance, Defined Contribution Pension

AI Disclosure: AI will not be used in the recruitment process.

Vacancy Disclosure: This is a replacement.

Application instructions: To apply, please send a resume to Aman Sodi at

Aman.Sodi@summitsearchgroup.com

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