Corporate Accounting Controller

**The Opportunity**:
WSP Global is seeking a **Financial Controller, Corporate Accounting**to join our team in a permanent, full-time capacity. Reporting to the **Director, Finance**, this role plays a crucial part in ensuring the accuracy and transparency of financial statements by providing analytical support for head office reporting, budgeting, and financial forecasting. The Controller will oversee the **end-of-period process**and provide key support to the **tax department**.

**Why choose WSP?**
- We value and are committed to upholding a culture of **inclusion**and **belonging**:

- Our **Flexible**Work Policy - we recognize the importance of balance in our lives and encourage you to prioritize the balance in yours. We will support you on and off the job so you can be fully present in both your work and home lives.
- A **Canadian**success story - we're **proud**to wear the red and white of this beautiful country and show the world what Canada has to offer.
- **Enhance**the world around you - from the environment to the highways, to the buildings and the terrain, WSP is the fabric of Canada.
- **Outstanding**career opportunities - we're growing and pushing ourselves every day to be greater than yesterday - we're open to **your**ideas and trying **new**things.
- A phenomenal **collaborative**culture and a workforce filled with genuinely **good**people**who are doing humbly important work. Come find out for yourself what it's like to be a part of our journey.

We offer attractive pay, flexible work options, a great corporate culture, comprehensive and employee-focused benefits including virtual healthcare and a wellness platform as well as great savings programs, and a clear vision for the future.

**WeAre**WSP**

**What you can expect to do here**:

- Provide **analytical and consolidation**support to WSP’s **Financial Services**team.
- Reconcile and maintain **balance sheet accounts**to ensure period-end accuracy.
- Analyze **profit and loss**statements to identify budget variances and record necessary provisions.
- Conduct **monthly foreign exchange gain/loss analysis**for accounting, tax, and management purposes.
- Develop and implement **tools and strategies**to transform raw data into actionable financial insights.
- Reconcile and validate **inter-company financial transactions**across global locations.
- Prepare and produce **financial reports**essential for consolidation.
- Support the **tax department**with financial analyses for tax provisions and reports.
- Collaborate on **special projects**with key business units, including financial performance, inter-company billing, insurance, and internal audit.Supervising a single analyst to support with various tasks.

**What you’ll bring to WSP**:

- **University degree**in Accounting or Finance.
- **Minimum 5 years**of experience in financial analysis or accounting.
- Strong **technical, analytical, and systems proficiency**, with extensive knowledge of **Microsoft Excel**and reporting tools.
- Familiarity with **Oracle ERP systems**(an asset).
- Highly **analytical**with exceptional **attention to detail**.
- Outstanding **organizational skills**, capable of managing multiple priorities.
- **Bilingual (English and French)**—additional language proficiency is an asset.
- Excellent **written and verbal communication skills**.
- Ability to effectively engage with **international stakeholders**.

This role offers a dynamic opportunity to work in a global environment, collaborating with diverse teams to drive financial accuracy and efficiency.

LI-Hybrid

**WSP**is one of the world's leading professional services firms. Our purpose is to future proof our cities and environments.

We have over 65,000 team members across the globe. In Canada, our 12,000+ people are involved in everything from environmental remediation to urban planning, from engineering iconic buildings to designing sustainable transportation networks, from finding new ways to extract essential resources to developing renewable power sources for the future.

At **WSP**:

- We value our people and our reputation
- We are locally dedicated with international scale
- We are future focused and challenge the status quo
- We foster collaboration in everything we do
- We have an empowering culture and hold ourselves accountable

Please Note:
Health and Safety is a core paramount value of WSP. Given the importance of keeping one another safe it is expected that you comply with our Health, Safety & Environment (HSE) policy at all times as well as client HSE policies when working at client locations.

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