Description:
You may be an Assistant Controller or Accounting Manager ready to step into broader leadership, or a Controller earlier in your career seeking increased ownership and decision-making responsibility. Either way, you’re ready to play a key role in helping shape the financial future of a growing, Canadian family-owned design and production company specializing in custom display manufact
uring.
Partnering closely with the CFO and senior leadership, you’ll strengthen financial visibility and build and/ or strengthen scalable systems and processes that support continued growth. You will also lead and motivate a small, dedicated accounting/ finance team, fostering accountability, professional development, and a collaborative, high-performance c
ulture.
You bring proven experience collaborating with leadership and an exceptional ability to build trusted relationships at all levels of the organization. You thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and work confidently across cross-functional teams to deliver accurate reporting, enhance controls, and continuously improve reporting, systems and pr
ocesses.
In this hybrid role, you'll spend 3 days a week working from our Scarborough office and 2 days working remotely f
rom home.
HOW YOU’LL MAKE
- AN IMPACT Developing and maintaining financial reporting systems to drive accurate, timely and efficient recording and reporting of all organizational financial transactions (in accordance with Accounting Standards for Private En
- terprises.Preparing financial statements, forecasts and budgets to support annual financial planning and performance in order to help guide organizational decis
- ion-makingDeveloping and maintaining financial models to evaluate business performance, reporting and driving or supporting resultin
- g actions.Conducting financial analyses to understand profitability and identify areas of opportunity and/ or im
- provement.Work collaboratively with other departments to ensure that financial results align with overall organizational strategies/ goals and support development and maintenance of related
- reporting.Managing cash flow and financial risks, ensuring the Company’s financi
- al health.Oversee corporate payroll processing in collaboration with Human
- Resources.Guides financial decisions by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing policies and p
- rocedures.Protects organizational assets by establishing, monitoring, and enforcing internal
- controls.Ensure compliance with all applicable laws, regulations and accounting
- standards.Prepare and manage deliverables and relationships with internal and external partners, including financial institutions, auditors/ accountants, Canada Revenue Agency, Statistics Canada, customers an
- d vendors.Supervise, mentor and develop the accounting team with dynamic leadership that creates an environment of trust, motivation and pro
- ductivity.Develop, document, and oversee accounting training
- programs.Undertake special projects surrounding the organizational systems and processes which drive financia
- l results.Protects the corporation by keeping financial information and plans con
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idential. YOU’LL SUCCEED IN THIS ROLE I
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- YOU HAVE Post-secondary education in Accounting or Business with a minimum of 5 years of relevant work
- experienceAccounting Designation from a recognized accounting organization is
- preferredAdvanced working knowledge of Micro
- soft ExcelAdvanced working knowledge of Microsof
- t Power BIERP system experience especially for man
- ufacturingCritical thinking and analyti
- cal skillsStrong Leadership and supervisory skill
- s requiredStrong interpersonal and communication, both written
- and verbalStrong negotiation and relationship build
- ing skillsStrong prioritization, problem-solving, and analyti
- cal skillsAbility to work under pressure and meet deadlines in a dynamic e
- nvironmentHistorical experience developing and documenting business systems and processes