Group Controller

Job description

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Group Controller based in Canada.** This is a strategic finance leadership role supporting a diverse, international portfolio of business units. You will oversee group-level reporting while partnering closely with operating teams to strengthen financial processes and controls. The role combines technical accounting expertise with process improvement, systems optimization, and business partnership. You will contribute to acquisitions, integrations, reorganizations, audits, and complex accounting matters. Your analysis and insights will help senior leaders make informed, data-driven decisions across the organization. The environment is collaborative and globally distributed, requiring strong communication across teams, time zones, and cultures. This is an opportunity to make a broad impact while helping develop finance capabilities and best practices across the group. ### Accountabilities - Partner with business units to ensure timely, accurate preparation and review of financial deliverables during quarterly and year-end close cycles. - Identify opportunities to improve reporting practices and lead the implementation of standardized, best-practice reporting processes. - Support internal and external audits and annual statutory filings, ensuring financial information is accurate and compliant with applicable requirements. - Oversee the accurate recording of revenues, operating expenses, capital expenditures, and reserves in accordance with GAAP/IFRS and internal policies. - Provide accounting analysis and guidance on significant transactions, including acquisitions, business combinations, revenue recognition, and other complex matters. - Support business reorganizations by assessing and implementing changes to processes, controls, systems, and operational practices. - Lead financial integration activities for newly acquired business units, ensuring effective alignment with group systems and processes. - Review account reconciliations and assess the control environment to strengthen internal controls and support risk-management objectives. - Prepare and analyze financial reports, including variance analysis, operating ratios, emerging trends, and opportunities, and translate findings into actionable insights for leadership. - Manage and optimize accounting information systems to improve the efficiency, reliability, and accuracy of financial reporting. - Develop and deliver training programs that strengthen financial knowledge and capabilities across the organization. - Build strong collaborative relationships with finance teams and business stakeholders while supporting the development and growth of finance professionals. ## Requirements - Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, or a related discipline; CPA or equivalent accounting qualification strongly preferred. - 10+ years of accounting or finance experience, with at least 2 years in a management or leadership capacity preferred. - Strong knowledge of accounting principles, internal controls, and financial reporting requirements under IFRS and/or GAAP. - Hands-on experience with Percentage of Completion (POC) accounting is preferred. - Strong financial and accounting expertise combined with sound commercial understanding and strategic thinking. - Experience improving financial processes, systems, controls, and reporting to increase efficiency and productivity. - Ability to manage complex projects, competing priorities, and tight deadlines while maintaining a high level of accuracy and attention to detail. - Strong analytical, planning, organizational, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn financial information into meaningful business insights. - Demonstrated leadership and team-management capabilities, including the ability to coach and develop finance professionals. - Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build relationships and collaborate effectively across different time zones and cultural environments. - High level of integrity, discretion, confidentiality, ownership, accountability, and commitment to delivering results. - Willingness to work flexible hours when business requirements demand it. ## Benefits - Competitive compensation package aligned with experience and qualifications. - Full-time, permanent employment. - Remote work opportunity available in Canada. - Opportunity to work with a globally distributed organization and diverse portfolio of business units. - Meaningful exposure to acquisitions, financial integrations, reorganizations, reporting transformation, and strategic finance initiatives. - Opportunities to influence finance processes, systems, controls, and best practices at group level. - Professional development, training, and opportunities to grow leadership and technical finance capabilities. - Collaborative, people-focused working environment with strong emphasis on employee engagement. - Opportunity to contribute to technology and solutions that support people transportation around the world.