Description:
With over 120 years of experience in North America, Soletanche Bachy Canada (“SB Canada”) is an established leader in the deep foundations industry. Through our affiliation with the Soletanche Freyssinet group of companies, SB Canada combines local experience with international expertise and can complete any size of foundation project. Our employees enjoy a safe and stable work environment and a competitive compensation package based on experience.
SB Canada is currently seeking a permanent, full time Controller, to support our continued growth. The position reports to the Vice President Finance, on a solid line and the successful candidate will be a key member of the accounting team. This role has a strong emphasis on operational finance, planning, forecasting and impact analysis with supervisory responsibilities of direct reports.
As a Controller, the Employee is required to perform the duties including, but not limited to, those outlined below:
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES OF POSITION
- Look at accounting processes and procedures including AP, AR and regular reporting for the purposes of streamlining and increasing consistency.
- Manage, support, and train a team with the intention of streamlining processes and achieving greater consistency across the finance department.
- Work with VP Finance and team to create and adhere to common practices and standardization of accounting functions to develop best practices and gain efficiencies.
- Contribute to improved decision making and drive operational improvement by identifying trends and conducting financial analyses across all activities.
- Play a pivotal role in the preparation of monthly/quarterly financial reporting/forecasts and the annual operating plan, including establishing financial performance targets.
- Provide management oversight of the cost accounting ensuring accurate reporting of project profitability of projects.
- Provide leadership to direct reports to train, mentor and coach to ensure employees are performing at their highest potential.
- Manage and address financial issues and concerns and provide communication to internal stakeholders. Collaborate and communicate with key internal stakeholders to ensure smooth and on-going information exchange.
- Prepare necessary monthly reports on Key Performance indicators (KPIs), Inventory, Work-In-Process, and variance analysis reports.
- Maintain financial control and performance reporting system in accordance with company policies and procedures.
- Maintain and enforce appropriate internal controls of financial and operational processes.
- Prepare monthly financial packages for all business partners.
- Liaise with external and internal auditors for mid-year and end of year review.
3-5 years of experience an accounting or finance role.- Professionally designated, or working towards designation, considered an asset.
- Strong Excel experience.
- Strong experience with accounting processes and procedures specifically related to reporting, forecasting, budgeting, AP and AR, and intercompany accounting.
- ERP experience (either with SAP or Oracle) a strength.
- Experience with analyzing processes and implementing process improvements for the purposes of streamlining processes and procedures.
- Experience managing mentoring and developing teams.
- Analytical and decision making, capabilities.
- Attention to detail and organizational skills.
- Degree in Accounting, Finance, or Commerce.
- Communication skills.
- Exposure to project accounting and Oracle (Harmony) a definite asset.
- Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Spends his/her time and the time of others on what is important; can quickly sense what will help or hinder accomplishing a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.
- Accounting designation would be an asset.