Corporate Controller
Location: Stoney Creek
Position Type: Full-Time, Permanent
Salary Range: $125,000 – $140,000 / year + Full Benefits
Job ID: #481543
About the Company
Our client is a prominent and growing organization specializing in residential and commercial real estate across the region. They are seeking an experienced and strategic Corporate Controller to join their finance leadership team.
Why Join Our Team?
- Comprehensive Benefits: Full health, dental, vision, and wellness coverage.
- Retirement Plan: RRSP with generous employer matching.
- Paid Time Off: 3 weeks paid vacation plus paid bereavement leave.
- Relocation Assistance: Available for qualifying candidates.
- Professional Growth: Strong corporate support for ongoing professional development, certifications, and career advancement.
Position Overview & Key Responsibilities
- Financial Reporting & Consolidation: Prepare and review consolidated financial statements (balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements) across multiple legal entities; oversee intercompany accounting, eliminations, and reconciliations.
- Financial Planning & Modeling: Develop, maintain, and refine financial models to drive accurate forecasting, budgeting, and strategic decision-making; collaborate directly with the VP of Finance on long-term planning.
- Internal Controls & Process Improvement: Maintain and enhance internal controls over financial reporting; standardize accounting policies and reporting processes to drive operational efficiency and best practices.
- Analysis & Insights: Track, analyze, and present financial metrics, variance reports, and operational KPIs to senior management.
- Team Leadership: Manage, mentor, and build a high-performing team of accounting professionals, providing hands-on guidance on complex accounting and operational matters.
- Audit & Compliance: Coordinate and lead external financial audits, serving as the primary point of contact for external audit partners.
Candidate Qualifications & Requirements
- Education & Credentials: Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or Finance; CPA designation (Canada/U.S.) or ACCA (UK) strongly preferred.
- Experience: 10+ years of progressive accounting experience, including 3–5 years specializing in consolidated financial reporting.
- Technical Expertise: Strong working knowledge of ASPE; demonstrated expertise in multi-entity consolidations, intercompany transactions, and complex financial modeling.
- Systems Proficiency: Experience with enterprise financial systems (Microsoft Dynamics preferred).
- Leadership & Skills: Excellent communication, analytical, and problem-solving abilities with a proven track record of managing competing priorities and delivering accurate results under tight deadlines.
- Location: Must currently reside within the Greater Toronto Area and be legally authorized to work in Canada.
Please reference Job ID # 481543 in your application.
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This position for employment is for a current vacancy with Highspring’s client. 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.
By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco by Highspring the exclusive right to present you as a candidate for the foregoing position. Additionally, you agree to be included in our talent pool for future hiring for similarly qualified positions. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. Lastly, you also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco by Highspring about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco by Highspring agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of colour, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply. The company is also committed to ensuring that persons who need them are provided with reasonable accommodations; if one is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact HR@vaco.com .
Vaco by Highspring respects your privacy and is committed to providing transparent notice of our policies in English here and in French here. Additionally, the company uses AI to perform preliminary screenings, focused on ensuring minimum job requirements noted in the position are satisfied. Further assessment of candidates beyond this initial phase will be conducted by recruiters and hiring managers. Vaco/Highspring does not know and cannot opine on if its client’s use of AI products in hiring.
Pay Transparency Notice
Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual’s skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
Having said that Vaco by Highspring believes that the salary range referenced reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses and/or participation in medical, dental, and vision benefits as well as the company’s retirement plan (or similar retirement benefits).
