Financial Controller

**About Us**:

- For over 40 years, Immigrant Services Calgary has been an integral part of the Calgary community, working to make a meaningful difference in the lives of newcomers. Through our work, we ensure families and individuals have the support they need to successfully begin a new chapter of their lives in Canada.

We continually innovate in our work, reimagining and transforming the newcomer experience to make it easier for our clients to access the support they need to thrive. We collaborate with partner agencies, governments, organizations, and community advocates, to help immigrants and refugees build thriving lives in our community.

Immigrant Services Calgary helps over 10,000 newcomers each year, connecting them to programs and services to unleash their potential.

Our Vision: Unleashing the economic, social, and civic potential of clients.

Our Mission: Connecting newcomers to the right service at the right agency every time.

**The Position:
The Financial Controller (FC) will serve as the main point of contact at Immigrant Services Calgary for accounting, financial and management reporting, operating budgets, and internal control and compliance. The FC will work as a business partner with the management team to help them manage ISC’s growing operations. They will lead management reporting, budgets and budgetary control, and business modelling and financial forecasting. They will drive upgrades and changes to existing financial systems, policies, procedures, and guidelines to ensure effective and efficient financial management of all operations of ISC.

The FC is also responsible for management of day-to-day accounting and finance functions, including integrity of the financial general ledger; general accounting - banking, accounts payable and accounts receivable; contractual payments and custody of all contracts; accounting of fixed assets; cashflow management and forecasting; GAAP accounting, audited financial statements and statutory audits; statutory reporting and filings; charities legislation and CRA compliance; internal controls including authorizations and compliance; internal control over ISC's financial policies and procedures; and enhancement of accounting systems.

This is a temporary, one-year maternity leave position, in a hybrid (remote/in-office) work arrangement. We are also open to discussing contracting this work.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Lead management reporting, business analytics against benchmarks/KPIs, budgets and budgetary control, and business modelling and financial and cash forecasting, including reporting to funders/stakeholders.
- Ensure effective cashflow management, including cashflow forecasts that are updated monthly, and ad hoc, when necessary, to manage the Organization’s liquidity.
- Coordinate the annual budget process and work closely with budget managers in reviewing/assessing current level of spending and requested budget allocation for the following year, in line with the overall budget parameters and guidance from the Board of Directors, the senior leadership team and funders.
- Monitor budget and actual expenses and work with the budget managers on a monthly basis, including providing variance analysis and projections/forecasts to support effective decision-making and budgetary control.
- Ensure the integrity of the financial general ledger, including providing the oversight of reconciliations with all underlying systems and relevant documentation, and ensuring transfer of information from the feeder systems.
- Oversee the accounts payable and accounts receivable functions to ensure effective, efficient and timely flow of funds, in accordance with ISC’s policies, contracts and industry best-practices.
- Coordinate entire yearend process; interpreting, documenting, and implementing new and/or revised GAAP and Accounting Standards; preparing GAAP financial statements and related working papers for audit.
- Ensure filings and documentation are submitted timely and accurately as per government regulations, including CRA T3010 return, Payroll Deduction Remittances, GST returns and all other reporting.
- Review, assess, analyze and make enhancements to systems, procedures and workflow to improve overall effectiveness and efficiencies by implementing automation, where feasible, as the department continues to operate fully digitally.
- Manage external professional business relationships with banks, auditors and major clients/suppliers.
- Maintain levels of excellence related to professional accounting standards, audit standards, corporate, charities and tax legislation, and other regulatory statutes and guidelines.
- Provide input into the Finance Update section for the Finance & Audit Committee, the Executive Committee and Board meeting papers.

**People management responsibilities**:

- Establish annual objectives, in collaboration with the employee(s), evaluate progress regularly, adjust as needed, seek and provide regular feedback an