Controller

Controller - Finance Leader

Join the team behind Canada's largest outdoor comedy festival

Status: This is a permanent, full-time salaried position.

Location: This role is based in Edmonton, AB with required travel across North America. Employees are able to work a hybrid schedule of in-office and remote work.

Department: This position sits on the Finance and HR team.

How to Apply: Please apply directly to the posting located on our Careers Page here:

About Trixstar Productions:

Trixstar is a 360º event management firm producing festivals, concerts, brand activations, celebrity experiences, and keynote engagements across North America. We specialize in creating unforgettable experiences while raising funds and awareness for local charities and not-for-profits.

Our flagship property, the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival (GOCF), is now the largest outdoor comedy festival in Canada. We are proud to create an inclusive and safe space that celebrates all forms of comedy — from local talent to household names — while spreading laughter, joy, and positive impact coast to coast.

The successful candidate will demonstrate Trixstar's Core Values everyday: 

• Respect

• Work hard, stay humble

• Stop; collaborate and listen

• All in

• Own it

• The little things are everything

The Opportunity:

Trixstar and the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival (GOCF) are seeking a Controller - Finance Leader to take ownership of the finance function and work closely with the owner and operating teams. This is a hands-on role for someone who enjoys being close to the business, rolling up their sleeves, and using financial insight to support growth, execution, and improved performance.

What You'll Do:

As Controller – Finance Leader, you will be responsible for ensuring the finance function supports the business as it continues to scale and prepares for the next phase of growth. The emphasis is on forward-looking insight, disciplined cash management, and practical decision support — while maintaining a professional, reliable accounting foundation that can grow with the business.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Financial leadership: Serving as the senior finance resource relied on by the owner and operating teams, actively engaged in bringing structure, perspective, and financial insight to day-to-day and strategic decisions.

• Cash management and financial discipline: Owning visibility into cash position, liquidity, and timing across the full sales and event cycle, and ensuring capital is deployed thoughtfully in support of growth.

• Planning, forecasting, and revenue insight: Designing and maintaining a clear planning, forecasting, and reporting process that provides timely insight into expected performance at the daily, event/weekend, and season level. This includes tracking sales pace, revenue drivers, and cost behaviour, and highlighting implications in real-time as conditions change.

• Performance insight and unit economics: Ensuring the business has a clear, practical understanding of what drives profitability at the event, weekend, and season level, and how those drivers are trending.

• Monitoring and decision support: Taking ownership of the first view of performance, identifying key variances and trends, and supporting informed decision-making without becoming a bottleneck or gatekeeper.

• Systems, reporting, and process improvement: Building and improving the financial systems, reporting, and processes needed to operate effectively at the next stage of scale.

• Core accounting and team leadership: Ensuring professional delivery of core accounting, controls, and close, and managing and mentoring a small finance team.

• Cross-border and multi-entity accounting (Canada/U.S.): Supporting reporting and controls across both entities, including intercompany transactions, U.S. dollar (USD) activity, foreign exchange considerations, and coordination with external advisors as needed.

What success looks like

By the end of the first year, success in this role looks like:

• The owner and leadership team have consistent, timely financial insight that is relied on to support and inform decisions.

• Cash flow, profitability, and risk are visible well in advance, supported by a predictable and trusted reporting cadence.

• Finance is seen as an active partner in growth and execution, not just a reporting function.

• The business has a clear, shared understanding of when and how it makes money, at the event, weekend, and season level.

• Core financial systems, reporting, and processes have been meaningfully upgraded and are embedded in how the business operates.

• The focus of the finance team is on strengthening the business going forward and supporting performance, with an emphasis on using insight to support better decisions as the business moves forward.

What You Bring: 

You are a strong accounting and finance professional with solid, hands-on controller experience who is ready to take on broader scope and influence.

• Approximately 5+ years of previous finance experience in a similar role is an asset.

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Finance, Accounting, Business, or a related field is required.

• CPA designation is preferred.

• Comfort partnering with an owner and leadership team, can step in quickly, and bring the judgment and maturity needed to contribute effectively without a long ramp-up.

• You take a practical, forward-looking approach to the role. You focus on strengthening what's needed to support the next stage of growth, are comfortable rolling up your sleeves, and put structure in place where it adds value — using financial insight in ways that are genuinely useful to the business.

• You enjoy being part of a strong, high-performing team building a scaled, event-based business that delivers high-quality live experiences to large audiences and has meaningful runway for growth.

• Experience in event-based or project-based businesses is helpful, but not required.

• The role calls for financial discipline — the ability to plan well, execute within tight timelines, and influence budget decisions thoughtfully, where preparation and follow-through materially influence outcomes.

• Sound judgment, the ability to understand how the business operates, and the ability to engage constructively with the team — raising issues when appropriate, listening carefully, and working through decisions collaboratively — are important.

Why This Role?

This is an opportunity to step into a senior, hands-on finance leadership role with real influence in a growing, founder-led business. You'll work closely with the owner, help strengthen how decisions are made, and play a meaningful role in guiding the business toward consistent cash-flow positivity and profitability — without losing what already makes it successful.

Why Join Trixstar?

Trixstar and the Great Outdoors Comedy Festival is all about bringing laughter and joy to people's lives In addition to joining a dedicated team that celebrates humour and creativity, we also offer a comprehensive compensation package: 

• Competitive salary commensurate with experience

• Quarterly bonus potential

• 7 weeks (35 days) of paid vacation time per year (note that vacation time is limited throughout the months of July, August and September for festival season)

• 5 days of Paid Time Off (PTO) per year

• Health Spending Account