Director of Finance - Controller

Position: Director of Finance - Controller

Category: Permanent

Location: Laval

Salary: Competitive

Particularities of the employer

Are you looking for a Controller position in a well-established SME with world-class operations, strong technological capabilities, and long-standing financial health? Would you like to be responsible for the accounting function and actively contribute to the company’s profitable growth while reporting directly to the President? Are you passionate about systems automation, business efficiencies and process optimization? Do you strive in a highly dynamic and hands-on entrepreneurial environment?

Advantages: Financially stable and renowned company - Growing environment - Potential for professional development - Highly automated and innovative sector - Entrepreneurial culture - Structured and simplified business model - Superb professional exposure - Freedom in optimizing systems - Stability of employment - Predictability of work schedules - Excellent collaboration and support between colleagues - Benefits - 3 weeks of vacation - Competitive salary

Your responsibilities in a few words

Supervise accounting operations as well as team members responsible for billing, collections, accounts payable and payroll - Prepare monthly financial statements - Ensure data accuracy and compliance with established accounting standards and procedures - Coordinate efforts to investigate, dispute and resolve short payments and remittance withholdings - Oversee daily cash flow - Prepare monthly cash flow projections based on financial forecasts - Direct all month-end procedures - Ensures adequate funding and expenditure control in support of overseas operations - Ensure the company complies with all government, tax and regulatory filing and reporting requirements - Guide the year-end close process and preparation of files for external accountants - Maintain impeccable internal controls - Protect accounts receivable by overseeing credit decisions and receivables insurance - Develop business processes and accounting policies - Collaborate with IT on innovation projects aimed at automating manual, redundant and non-value-added accounting activities - Align all accounting procedures - Establish best practices to maximize potential and successfully integrate the new ERP system - Support the president with financial analyzes ad hoc to help guide business decisions

Your strengths for this position

• Hold a CPA designation
• Have an MBA (asset)
• Solid expertise in the field of distribution
• Minimum 10 years of combined overall experience in accounting and finance, including 5 years with supervision
• In-depth knowledge of accounting principles and procedures
• Experience in financial statement creation, general ledger functions and closing processes
• Excellent skills in using and administering accounting software
• Advanced knowledge of Excel and global database management
• Experience with ERP systems as well as ERP implementations (asset)
• Strong leadership, organizational and analytical skills
• Bilingualism: express yourself clearly in English (spoken and written) and have functional French

An ideal opportunity for a professional, entrepreneurial, proactive, and committed individual, who has a solid understanding of accounting principles, the retail sector and in-depth knowledge of financial statements. As a member of the financial management team, you will be recognized for your analytical skills, your motivation, your leadership and for your talent to offer brilliant insights accompanying decision-making. Reporting to the President, a competent, visionary manager who promotes a positive and evolving culture within his teams, you will be directly responsible for all aspects of corporate accounting, cash management, regulatory information and financial as well as the development of internal control policies and procedures. Are you interested in this role? Apply here to share your interest in this management position.