Corporate Controller

Job Summary:

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

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