Controller (Confidential)
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About The Company
Our client is an established, privately held and entrepreneurial organization entering an important stage of growth.
About The Role
The Controller will be a trusted financial partner to ownership and the leadership team, providing visibility into profitability, margins, working capital, cash flow, operational performance and growth opportunities. Initially, the role will be hands‑on: validating financial information, improving processes and building the reporting tools, controls and capabilities required to support a more scalable organization. A central priority will be transforming financial and operational data into meaningful management information so leadership can better understand: Which customers, services and revenue streams are most profitable, and where margins are being gained or lost; How pricing, growth, cash flow, working capital and resource needs are affecting performance; Where operational inefficiencies, billing delays, unrecorded costs or process gaps are reducing profitability; and How management can make better pricing, investment, hiring, expansion and improvement decisions.
Key Responsibilities
Financial Reporting and Management Information- Lead timely, accurate monthly, quarterly and annual financial reporting, including close, reconciliation and supporting schedules.
- Develop management reporting, dashboards and analysis that highlight performance, risks, opportunities and recommended actions.
- Translate variances, trends and operational results into clear financial insight for leadership.
- Lead budgeting and rolling forecasting in partnership with ownership and operational leaders.
- Convert operational activity, customer trends and growth plans into practical financial forecasts and recommendations.
- Maintain cash‑flow forecasting and provide visibility into receipts, payments, payroll, tax, borrowing needs and cash constraints.
- Strengthen accounts receivable, billing, collections and accounts payable processes.
- Support banking, financing and covenant reporting while improving cash conversion and working‑capital efficiency.
- Oversee the full accounting cycle, including AR, AP, billing, collections, payroll coordination, general ledger and reporting.
- Improve accounting processes, roles, approvals, performance standards and information flow across sales, operations, billing and accounting.
- Ensure transactions, estimates and significant accounting items are recorded accurately, consistently and in the correct period.
- Design and maintain practical internal controls appropriate for a growing entrepreneurial business.
- Establish approval authorities, segregation of duties, documentation standards and controls over payments, banking, vendor changes, system access and key transactions.
- Identify and mitigate financial, reporting, fraud and process risks.
- Coordinate year‑end reporting, working papers and external review requirements.
- Manage tax, payroll and statutory reporting obligations accurately and on time.
- Support banking, financing, insurance, legal, tax and due‑diligence requests with timely, organized information.
- Serve as a trusted financial advisor to ownership on strategy, growth, pricing, staffing, systems and capital allocation.
- Partner with sales and operations to assess profitability, pricing, contracts, efficiency, cost control and margin performance.
- Provide financial analysis for strategic initiatives and help build the infrastructure required to support long‑term growth and enterprise value.
CANDIDATE PROFILE
This role is suited to an experienced accounting and finance professional who combines strong technical capability, practical business judgment and commercial curiosity.
The Successful Candidate Will Bring- Progressive accounting and finance leadership experience, ideally in a Controller, Director of Finance or senior finance leadership role;
- A Canadian CPA designation and strong knowledge of Canadian accounting, reporting, tax compliance and internal controls;
- Experience in a privately held, entrepreneurial or growth‑oriented organization;
- Demonstrated ability to build reporting, b