Controller

**Required Qualifications**:

- College diploma or University Accounting degree (CA, CMA or CPA designation preferred)
- A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience in a decentralized manufacturing environment with complete responsibility for the finance function; automotive experience is preferred
- Managed a team of at least four direct reports with proven leadership and problem solving skills
- An independent critical thinker who displays attention to detail
- Excellent organizational, interpersonal and time management skills with the ability to multi-task
- Experience in working in an AS400 environment (CMS experience is preferred)
- Knowledge of Bill 198 internal control requirements
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and Word

**Critical Success Factors**:

- Demostrates focus and drive to achieve targets, budgets and results using an assertive style.
- Desire to become a business partner to the general manager by thoroughly understanding the business, providing accurate and timely information to the management team, taking the initiative to identify and implement costs saving projects that will assist in improving the overall profitabilty of the plant.
- Desire and ability to learn about the business and understand the production process by attending and participating in daily production meetings and regularly walking through the production floor to develop the necessary link between the production processes and the financial statements.
- Educate and train departmental managers of the financial impact of their decisions, and hold them accountable to a predetermined budget.
- Clearly communicate weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual financial results to the general manager and Corporate including explanations of variances of actual compared to weekly forecast and budget.
- Effectively manage and take complete ownership and control of the finance department with respect to month-end reporting as well as day-to-day activities.
- Proven self-starter who requires limited supervision and direction, yet achieves tasks and overcomes problems and provides effective direction and development for staff.
- Adopts an active approach and a perpetual willingness to get personally involved in order to increase the pace and efficiency and achieve departmental, plant and Company goals and objectives.
- Consistently thinking beyond the borders of finance to help create a culture of continuous improvement.
- Embraces the challenge of problem solving and identifying and implementing well thought through practical solutions.

**Responsibilities**:

- Responsible for the entire financial function at the plant, including cash and back, accounts receivable, inventory, capital assets, accounts payable, inter-company transactions and other related accruals and receivables.
- Responsible for the review of the monthly reconciliation binder prepared by subordinates that provides support for all balance sheet accounts.
- Comply with Corporate reporting requirements on weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis ensuring compliance with Martinrea accounting policies and procedures.
- Create a system whereby an accurate weekly forecast can be prepared and submitted to Corporate each week. On a weekly basis, prepare and review the plants weekly forecast and communicate any changes from the previous weeks forecast to the general manager and Corporate. On a monthly basis, explain the differences beween the actual results and the previous weeks forecast, and the previous months actual results.
- Review and approve standard and non-standard journal entries each month.
- Implement and maintain internal controls at the plant to ensure compliance with the Bill 198 requirements.
- Proactively provide continuous improvement ideas relating to both financial and production processes.
- Prepare the annual budget for the plant by leading the entire budget process at the plant by requesting various departmental head involvement in the process of the development of manpower and controllable material budgets so they are held accountable for any variances from budget each month. Work closely with the general manager to ensure that all budgeted changes and cost saving initiatives and new or lost business awards are correctly captured in the budget.
- Work closely with all departmental heads to identify any inefficiencies in processes and potential cost saving initiatives including freight costs savings, outsourced production parts savings, improvements in inventory management, reduced scrap and develop and lead projects to ensure timely realization of the identified costs savings.
- Review accounts receivable aging each month and proactively follow-up on collections issues with subordinates.
- Manage the local annual external audit by completing the Corporate audit kit with all the required supporting reconciliations and documenation, ensuring that no audit adjustments are identiied during the audit.
- Provide all the necessary information to the internal