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Director of Finance

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City Toronto

Type Direct Hire

Salary $170,000

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About the Company
Our client is North America’s most dynamic commercial finance company. They are looking for a Director of Finance to lead the accounting functions in a highly diverse multi-entity environment. This is a hands-on role requiring strong financial analysis and accounting skills, in addition to strong management skills adapted to support a geographically diverse team in the Canada and the United States. 

Why Work Here

• Good work-life balance in a culture with many self-motivated, team player type individuals that are very supportive of one another in the workplace
• Management is not the micromanaging type, employees have a good amount of freedom to plan their work
• Wide breadth of experience within accounting, control testing, treasury and any other types of projects or experience they are curious to be involved with

About the Opportunity

• Oversee, review, and prepare the corporate consolidated financial reporting package for a multi-entity and multi-currency organization in accordance with IFRS on a monthly, quarterly, and annual basis.
• Provide the organization’s leadership with accurate information vital to the decision-making process
• Lead the budgeting and forecasting activities, working with financial models to make informed forecasts about the company’s financial position.
• Design, test, and document internal controls and identify opportunities to optimize processes
• Re-engineer existing processes as necessary to help streamline finance and accounting activities
• Develop the internal management reporting process, including financial analysis, modeling and forecasting.
• Identify and improve internal control weaknesses in compliance with required ICFR guidelines.
• Develop and document procedures to drive compliance with Ontario Securities Commission (OSC) public company financial reporting requirements such as annual and quarterly financial reports, including MD&A, earnings releases, public disclosure statements, and other regulatory filings.
• Provide expertise and guidance on the accounting and reporting of transactions including acquisitions, subsidiary consolidation, equity-related activities, and debt issuance.
• Support the development of tax strategies and implementation of a strong governance structure across all entities.
• Oversee regulatory reporting, including tax planning and compliance.
• Ensure all information provided to outside tax firms for preparation of all tax returns are accurate.
• Responsible for tax provision for annual and interim reports for all Company entities.
• Oversight of the sales tax and other tax processes.
• Technical advisor to the business on all finance, tax, and treasury matters, including modeling potential acquisitions, dispositions, or other Capex purchases.
• Develop transfer pricing models and implement an enhanced global policy to optimize our cross-border structure. Devise a plan for ongoing rationalization of that structure.
• Lead the design and implementation of a robust cash flow forecasting model.
• Manage compliance with debt facilities including debt covenant compliance, and periodic reporting and refinancing of facilities as and when required.
• Function as the point of contact and coordinate activities of external auditors
• Coordinate year end audit with external auditors and assists in the preparation of audit schedules, data, and information.
• Work closely with the accounting staff to coordinate efforts to provide needed information for the auditors.
• Maintains the scope of the audit within the prescribed boundaries.
• Conduct internal audits of processes, records and information.
• Direct the implementation of needed adjustments as determined by audit.

About You

• CPA
• 10+ plus years of related experience and progression
• Strong Financial Reporting under IFRS (Financial Statement prep)
• Management Reporting experience (produce results and presentations for board meetings post close)
• Financial Services industry experience
• Budgeting & Forecasting experience
• Team Management experience

Salary Range
$150,000 - $170,000 /year

How to Apply
Click the “Apply Now” button and follow the instructions to submit your resume. Please know that we only accept documents in MS Word or Rich Text formats. When referencing this job, quote #364084.

You must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be permitted to work in Canada to be considered for this opportunity. A recruiter will be in touch with you if your profile meets our client’s requirements for this role.