Controller
- Markham, ON, Canada
Full-time
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Original job description
Position: Group Controller
Location: Markham IN-OFFICE with (frequent travel in the GTA)
Salary: $145-150k plus benefits, bonus and RSP
Industry: Building Materials, Construction
Job# 16817961
Company Overview
Our client is a global leader in the building materials, service and manufacturing space with a successful portfolio of multiple entities, spanning multiple countries.
Role Overview
Based out of HQ, this role will manage multiple entities and have several direct and indirect local reports. Responsibilities will include but to be limited to:
Responsibilities
Location: Markham IN-OFFICE with (frequent travel in the GTA)
Salary: $145-150k plus benefits, bonus and RSP
Industry: Building Materials, Construction
Job# 16817961
Company Overview
Our client is a global leader in the building materials, service and manufacturing space with a successful portfolio of multiple entities, spanning multiple countries.
Role Overview
Based out of HQ, this role will manage multiple entities and have several direct and indirect local reports. Responsibilities will include but to be limited to:
Responsibilities
- Lead and manage financial accounting and reporting
- Perform detailed general ledger analysis and collaborate with operations and finance teams to prepare complex or high-risk journal entries.
- Support the monthly consolidation and group close process.
- Ensure the accuracy and integrity of financial reporting in accordance with IFRS, including review of balance sheet reconciliations, management provisions and P&L analysis.
- Oversee the day-to-day accounting operations, including accounts payable, receivables, inventory, fixed assets, and the general ledger.
- Strengthen and maintain a robust internal control environment to safeguard assets, ensure data integrity, and best practices across all business units
- Lead the development of annual budget, quarterly/monthly forecasts acting as trusted financial business partner.
- Partner with operational and functional leaders to align on financial operating model, key performance indicators (KPIs), financial objectives, and strategic initiatives.
- Lead, develop, and mentor the business unit's finance and accounting team
- Drive standardization and alignment of processes, reporting formats, and systems across business
- units as part of the organization's transformation efforts, including new ERP implementation.
- Serve as the primary finance conduit between business operations and North American finance leadership. Qualifications:
- CPA designation
- Minimum 8+ yrs progressive senior financial leadership experience
- Strong financial reporting expertise, ideally gained in the construction or manufacturing industry
- or an adjacent and similarly complex sector.
- Solid technical grounding in accounting principles (IFRS, ASPE), compliance, reporting and internal controls.
- Strong ERP system knowledge and demonstrated experience within process improvements, upgrades or implementation projects are valued.
- Experience within a fast paced growing organization
More about this job
Responsibilities
Lead accounting operations, financial reporting, consolidation, and group close across multiple entities, ensuring accurate IFRS reporting and strong internal controls. Direct budgeting and forecasting, partner with operational leaders, develop the finance team, and standardize processes and systems, including through ERP implementation.
Requirements
Requires a CPA designation and at least eight years of progressive senior financial leadership experience. Candidates should bring strong financial reporting and technical accounting knowledge, ideally in construction, manufacturing, or a similarly complex sector, along with ERP and process improvement experience.
Skills
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- General Ledger Analysis
- Financial Consolidation
- IFRS
- ASPE
- Internal Controls
- Budgeting
- Forecasting
- Financial Business Partnering
- Team Leadership
- ERP Implementation
- Process Improvement
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Inventory Accounting
Benefits
- Benefits
- Bonus
- Retirement Savings Plan
Visa sponsorship
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Categories
- Finance & Accounting
- Management & Leadership
- Construction
- Manufacturing
Keywords
- CPA
- IFRS
- ASPE
- Financial Accounting
- Financial Reporting
- General Ledger
- Journal Entries
- Monthly Consolidation
- Group Close
- Balance Sheet Reconciliations
- Management Provisions
- Profit And Loss Analysis
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Inventory
- Fixed Assets
- Internal Controls
- Annual Budget
- Forecasting
- Key Performance Indicators
- ERP Implementation
- Process Standardization
- Process Improvement
- Building Materials
- Construction
- Manufacturing
- Multi-Entity Accounting