Vice President, Finance

**Vice President, Finance**

Northland Properties is renowned across Canada as a highly reputable company in the fields of hotels, restaurants, sports, and construction. The driving force behind several prominent brands such as Sandman Hotel Group, The Sutton Place Hotels, Moxie's Grill & Bar, Chop Steakhouse & Bar, Denny's Restaurants, Shark Club Sports Bar, Portmarnock Hotel and Golf Links, Revelstoke Mountain Resort, The Dallas Stars, Grouse Mountain, Northland Asset Management Company, and more on the horizon

As a proud Canadian-owned and operated organization, Northland Properties boasts over 200 outlets nationwide, with additional locations in the UK and USA. Their headquarters are situated in Vancouver, employing over 10,000 talented individuals.

Under the guidance of the Chief Financial Officer, the Vice President of Finance assumes responsibility for all accounting, financial planning, analysis, and reporting activities within Northland and its affiliated entities. This pivotal leadership role serves as a crucial financial partner to the senior leadership team, as well as business unit, brand, and functional leaders across the organization, ensuring that Northland's decision-makers have the necessary financial and supporting information to drive the business's success. In addition to leading a sizable finance team, this position is accountable for establishing and upholding effective internal controls that protect corporate assets and maintain the integrity of financial systems. The role encompasses providing visionary leadership for the finance function, defining goals and objectives, as well as offering mentorship and guidance to foster career development and cultivate a high-caliber work environment, setting Northland Properties as a leading employer.

**Responsibilities**:

- Participate in the development of long-range business planning, and partner with stakeholders throughout the organization to drive efficiencies and improvements relating to earnings, capital management, and liquidity.
- Key people leader with up to six direct reports and a total team size of ~50 team members across the functions of Accounting, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Financial Planning and Analysis, and Financial Systems Processes.
- Build a high-performance / best-in class team while creating dynamic and engaging work environment that attracts, retains, and develops and motivates the team.
- Oversight of core financial transaction processing teams ensuring accurate, timely and complete processing of payroll, AP and AR.
- Provides expertise in financial planning, budgeting, and forecasting, as well as the analysis of financial statements and insights to support the business to make informed decisions.
- Build strong relationships with leaders of each of the business units, brands and functions, and providing them with accurate and timely internal financial reporting.
- Improve and develop the quality, timeliness, and reliability of financial analysis and key performance metrics available to the business units
- Maintains all regulatory financial reporting for the related operating and holding companies
- Ensure that effective internal controls are in place and ensure compliance with GAAP/ASPE and applicable regulatory rules for financial and tax reporting.
- Assist with the preparation and issuance of annual Financial Statements, including execution of all external audits and reviews.
- Oversee and assist with preparation of period end, quarterly, and annual financial statements.
- Enhance and implement financial and accounting systems, processes, tools, and control systems to achieve efficiency gains and quality improvements.
- Other adhoc projects as requested

**Required Knowledge**:

- Bachelor's degree in Finance/Accounting or Business Administration.
- CPA designation required.
- Minimum of 10 years' experience, at an executive or senior level leading all Finance functional areas
- Experience in supporting business verticals in multi divisional businesses across Canada and USA.
- Experience in hospitality sector is an asset
- Experience working with Microsoft Dynamics 365 an asset.
- Ability and desire to drive change through high-energy, can-do attitude, comfortable working in a high-performance, entrepreneurial, open-door environment.
- Self-motivated person who takes initiative and ownership to improve processes and procedures with minimum supervision but in line with team objectives.
- Excellent written and oral communication with transparency and integrity, teamwork and relationship-building skills.
- Must be able to work effectively in a demanding, fast-paced and complex environment, handling multiple tasks and projects concurrently and resolving issues that cut across the organization, while maintaining highest standards and attention to detail.

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