Corporate Controller
Modaxo • Mississauga, Ontario • Full Time
Posted on Wed, Jul 22, 2026
Job Summary:
Reporting to the Portfolio CFO with five direct reports, the Corporate Controller leads consolidated management reporting, financial integration of acquisitions, intercompany management, and process improvement projects, and acts as the escalation point for technical IFRS queries. The ideal candidate is a qualified accountant with 5+ years' experience (audit plus industry, acquisition accounting, and NetSuite/Blackline preferred).Job Description:
Areas of Responsibility:
- Oversee review and compilation of various month end deliverables prepared by the portfolio businesses
- Assist in the integration of acquired companies’ financial reporting and processes, including system implementation, business combination accounting and opening balance sheet audits
- Review of journal entries and account reconciliations for the Portfolio and some businesses being integrated, as required
- Managing all intercompany relationships between the Portfolio and other affiliated entities, including overseeing documentation, entries and reconciliations
- Working with Finance teams of the businesses and group finance leads on longer-term projects to drive efficiencies or more accurate management reporting
- Act as an escalation point for technical IFRS accounting queries arising from businesses and groups
- Monitor timely completion of local external audits as required
- Track Debt covenant compliance and propose actions where appropriate
- Assist in systems implementations and best practice sharing where appropriate for NetSuite and supporting modules.
- Ensure compliance at a local level of control processes, reconciliations and financial reporting through Blackline and our global peer review process.
Profile
- The right candidate is a qualified accountant, with at least 5 years’ experience, potentially having worked in a large audit firm plus industry experience.
- Solid audit experience essential
- Excellent technical accounting skills, including acquisition accounting (we complete multiple acquisitions each year)
- Preferably brings experience in risk management, systems improvement and managing finance change — for example system implementations, process redesign and post-acquisition integration
- Comfortable working to tight deadlines and willing to get into the detail
- Confident Excel skills
- Portuguese or Spanish skills an advantage
Your personality
- Enjoy a fast-changing environment, which provides great opportunities for future growth
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, combined with an engaging personality, allowing you to clearly specify what you need and encourage a dispersed team to provide timely and high quality responses
- Motivated to do great work and to bring out the best in the people around you
- Motivated to seek new knowledge and enjoys continuous learning and knowledge sharing
- A natural collaborator who builds trust across teams and helps a dispersed, multi-entity finance community deliver together
- Willing to go out of your way to help our Portfolio businesses
- Positive, curious, humble and above all eager to learn and provide value to the finance community in the Portfolio
- Flexible and adaptable with ability to work flexible hours across time zones where necessary
- Always open, honest, reliable, and trustworthy
Practical
- Some travel is required. Plan on 1–2 trips per year of up to a week, worldwide, typically for corporate events and best-practice sharing. As the role is remote, we also ask for roughly quarterly visits to the office — downtown Toronto or Mississauga — to collaborate in person with the team, many of whom are local; you are welcome to come in more often if you prefer.
- Role will be fully remote
Worker Type:
RegularNumber of Openings Available:
1